TOKYO - Toyota sold more than 4.8 million vehicles worldwide in the first half, up 2 percent from the same period a year earlier, the Japanese automaker said Wednesday.
That exceeded General Motors Corp.’s sales of 4.5 million vehicles in the same period, setting up Toyota to potentially end GM’s 77-year run as the world’s top automaker by sales.
Toyota Motor Corp. spokesman Hideaki Homma said the company sold 4,817,941 vehicles globally during the first six months of the year.
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