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GM Is No Longer The World's Largest Carmaker

louie0923 submitted on 4/28/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 11:59:39 PM

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Toyota has finally achieved the status of the world's largest carmaker after being number two for a good while now.

But the numbers are very close, GM can still get the title back.


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Westside7th

This is only for the first quarter. If you counted how many cars were sold each day, on any given day, Ford, GM, Toyota, or whoever could be the #1 car maker. It's just based on an arbitrary length of time.

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Posted on 4/29/2007 1:06:53 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

Lexus

I'm not surprise at all that Toyota has become the #1 car maker in the world's. Let see if they can hold to it, which I hope they do :).

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Posted on 4/29/2007 1:33:49 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 8   

TruenoAE86

Toyota deserves to be number 1. It builds reliable cars that lasts, and will always get you from point A to point B. Isn't this what a car is all about?

In terms of driving dynamics, Toyota cars are not as fun as the German cars. Toyotas are not even as good as Hondas in this aspect. But most folks that buy the Camrys and Corollas don't care much about driving dynamics anyway.

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Posted on 4/29/2007 3:19:47 PM | | Votes: 3   

woood

It doesn't matter who sells the most cars. Its who makes the most money doing so thats important.

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Posted on 4/29/2007 2:36:51 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 7   

kart1

Are you trying to support GM here? Because that is the type of statement you are supposed to make when the company selling less is making more money.

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Posted on 4/29/2007 11:38:55 AM | | Votes: 3   

paul3230

And what if he is? People have been saying forever that Toyota was better than GM because they made a larger profit selling cars..even if they weren't 1 one seller in the wold. I think this is exactly what GM needs. It will continue to make them produce better are more competitve cars and hell, improve the marketing while they're at it! GM is really America's only hope of having a competitve domestic auto company.

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Posted on 4/29/2007 2:34:51 PM | | Votes: 3   

2JZSoarer

Actualy they were saying on the news that GM was going to have a tough time trying to reclaim the number one spot from Toyota...

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Posted on 4/29/2007 2:38:44 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 5   

AUTO_UNION

Congrats to toyota. I hope GM won't be as arrogant as they used to be!

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Posted on 4/29/2007 2:48:09 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 7   

S4cabriofoxone

Nice job Toyota.

But didn't we see this last week?...

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Posted on 4/29/2007 9:02:38 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 9   

BigShow50

The sad part about all this is that GM has been in the game for the longest time between the 2 Companies(GM & Toyota). But it takes almost 8, 10, 12, subsidaries(divisions) under GM to own and be able to claim number 1 status. At the end it took only 2 Global divisions to dethrown GM and that is Toyota & Lexus. Personally that is a true brand that can sell volumes "globally"...(speaking more so Toyota, as for Lexus they are working their way to the top at a rapid pace and any other division Toyota owns at this point Hino Motors(commercial use), a percentage of Subaru and Izusu barely represents 1% of their global volume output) Either way you all look at it, I call that true success.

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Posted on 4/29/2007 9:07:29 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 5   

mp2dtw

You're forgetting Scion and the fact that globally, Toyota and GM aren't that different. The Toyotas sold in the UK, for instance, are just as different from those sold in the US as Vauxhall is from GM's US divisions. Just because GM grew by buying companies and retaining their names doesn't make them inferior. It worked for many years. They just haven't adapted as quickly. It depends on how you define success. I can't think of a Toyota product I'd want to have for any reason other than environmental.

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Posted on 4/29/2007 8:47:17 PM | | Votes: 0   

paul3230

Hence the name..."General Motors"

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Posted on 4/30/2007 11:55:50 AM | | Votes: 1   

atomicbri

Honestly what does it matter who is number one or not? Porsche is no where near #1 and yet is the most profitable company in the auto business. I guess it is a title, but when I think of the G< when they were #1, didnt make me wanna buy one. Don't wanna buy a Toyota either!

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Posted on 4/29/2007 11:23:26 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 4   

EL34

The UAW must be proud of what they have accomplished.

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Posted on 4/29/2007 12:56:02 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 5   

TruenoAE86

Totally agree. Toyota must stay away from the UAW infection if it were to stay number 1.

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Posted on 4/29/2007 3:13:59 PM | | Votes: 1   

mp2dtw

I can't believe those who blame the UAW. If you ask those in upper management at GM and Ford, they'll tell you that they view the UAW as an asset not a hindrance. Auto workers in France, Germany & Sweden earn more while working fewer hours with better benefits and PSA, Renault, Volkswagen, BMW... are doing very well.

The UAW has been responsible for a great deal in this country--very little of it negative. When China starts importing cars with Chinese $1/day and prison labor, will you be advocating the US returning to the good old days of the 19th century where people worked six 12 hour days a week for $5? What's been hurting GM and Ford is the lunacy of our health care and pension system, or lack thereof. That's why, two years ago, Ontario passed Michigan in auto production despite the fact that actual CAW wages are higher in Ontario. Labor isn't the problem. Short-sighted extremist free enterprise policies are the problem.

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Posted on 4/29/2007 8:56:58 PM | | Votes: 1   

huu76

Personally, I'd be advocating a small war against China to remind everyone the true cost of all the Wal-mart specials.

The UAW shares part of the blame, short-sighted corporate America shares the rest (a little can be attributed to politicians on both sides for not being more forceful against unfair trade practices, which leads us back to corporate America).

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Posted on 4/29/2007 10:08:24 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

XYZZ


wars do not solve ECONOMIC problems.

in fact, wars tend to EXACERBATE them. the ONLY winners in any war are the defense industries. at the expense of every other sector.

one of the reasons japan and germany have such vibrant auto industries, is because those countries do not WASTE so much resources preparing for war as we do.

our defense industry even sucks away the best engineering talent that in other countries, go into auto and other consumer industries.

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Posted on 5/1/2007 7:18:00 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

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