Volkswagen Group is closing in on Toyota Motor Corp. as the global leader in vehicle sales, with a rapid expansion drive in China -- the world's biggest auto market -- while Toyota curbs growth to focus on shoring up quality.Toyota, reigning at the top spot in the auto industry for two years in a row, announced relatively robust global sales growth of 3.8 percent for the first six months of the year to 5.097 million vehicles on Wednesday, a record first-half result.
But Volkswagen is growing faster and its half-year total could pull even with or even surpass Toyota.
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