General Motors Over Takes Toyota As Largest Automaker In First Half Of year

GM sales rose 8.9 percent to 4.536 million units in the half-year ended June 30, the automaker reported Thursday.

That compares with 4.13 million units at second-ranked Volkswagen AG and 3.71 million units for Toyota, including its luxury Lexus brand and affiliates Daihatsu Motor Co. and Hino Motors Ltd., according to statements by the companies.

veyron1001 - 8/5/2011 11:42:10 PM

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Hardly a lead when Japan was hit by a massive tsunami.

Joe_Limon - 8/6/2011 2:54:17 AM

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pshhht, you're acting as if the entire island was flooded.

WarMachineMK - 8/6/2011 4:16:16 AM

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Last I checked, neither Toyota nor Honda were doing well in sales because of other merits besides a prior reputation for quality. Face it. The current Camry and Accord suck. Now we're hoping the 2012 Camry will save the day.

JUGNU - 8/6/2011 9:58:58 AM

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Toyota should act fast even other competitors, Hyundai is the biggest threat.

Joe_Limon - 8/6/2011 1:30:59 PM

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correct, look at what happened with Toyota, a decade of recall cover ups ended up destroying their sales once people started realizing what was going on.

MorePower - 8/8/2011 3:37:53 AM

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The article does not break down the sales far enough to get an accurate picture of GM's turn around in sales. My guess is that GM had a tremendous amount of fleet sales; i.e. Malibu's & Cruze's to rental car companies along with financial incentives on the trucks.

800over - 8/10/2011 11:31:32 AM

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I guess reading the couple paragraph article above was too much? It says right in the last line that Hino and other affiliates are included in the numbers.