Toyota Posts A Respectible May With A 12.2% Gain In Sales - Lexus Jumps 16.2% For Month

Toyota division posted May 2014 sales of 216,315 units, up 12.2 percent year-over-year on a DSR basis. Volume-wise, Toyota division sales increased 16.5 percent over May 2013.

"Industry sales in May soared as consumer confidence improved and demand for new vehicles continued to strengthen," said Bill Fay, Toyota division group vice president and general manager. "Toyota had its best month in six years led by strong Camry, Corolla and Hybrid sales."

Lexus reported May sales of 26,921 units, a 16.6 percent increase on a DSR basis and a 21.1 percent increase on a raw-volume basis, both year-over-year.

"The luxury vehicle market has been outperforming the overall industry so far this year and that continued in May," said Jeff Bracken, Lexus group vice president and general manager. "Lexus results during the month were up 21 percent as sales of our newest models, the IS and GX, more than doubled, and our core models, the ES and RX, also showed solid gains."

Other Highlights:

• Camry up over 26 percent with sales of almost 50,000 units
• All-new Corolla up 30.8 percent, best month since August 2009
• TMS hybrids up over 9 percent
• Prius up 14 percent with sales of 26,793 units
• Toyota division trucks up 11 percent
• All-new RAV4 leads trucks with sales of 23,465 units, up 13 percent
• All-new Highlander posts sales of 12,329 units
• 4Runner up 70 percent
• Sienna up nearly 13 percent
• Toyota pickups post sales of 25,267 units
• All-new Tundra up 14.5 percent
• Tacoma posts sales of nearly 14,000 units
• Lexus up over 21 percent
• All-new Lexus IS posts triple-digit gains for the sixth month in a row
• All-new Lexus ES up nearly 11 percent
• Lexus luxury utility vehicles up 20.2 percent
• Lexus RX up 8.7 percent
• Lexus GX posts triple-digit gains for the seventh month in a row

*Note:  Unless otherwise stated, all figures reflect unadjusted raw sales volume

USNA1999 - 6/3/2014 6:40:38 PM

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Might as well buy a toaster but I guess that is what this country likes, a POS Camry. I would take an Accord any day over a Camry.

scenicbyway12 - 6/3/2014 7:31:04 PM

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As great as the GS is it just hasn't caught on, I blame the odd grill, and a demographic that shadows Bill O'Reilly.

masterstein - 6/3/2014 10:11:14 PM

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Thanks for the post, but selling over 243,000 units is more than "respectable". In fact, it was Toyota's best month in 6 years. On a raw volume basis, Toyota Motor actually posted a 17% sales increase. That includes a 26% increase in Camry sales to nearly 50,000. So this a stellar month for Toyota.

infiniti_G35c - 6/4/2014 1:20:45 AM

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Holy crap I didnt realize The Camry sold that well. In fact, I didnt realize the Prius and Tacoma still continue to sell so well even YEARS after their last major refresh. Have to give respect to that.

HughJass - 6/4/2014 10:23:54 AM

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So Toyota has a respectable 12% yet Mercedes plows through May with about 7%?

What would you say to Hyundai only having an increase of 3.7% (on a smaller sales base so % increases should be bigger), they destroyed May?

HughJass - 6/4/2014 10:34:24 AM

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Interesting, in May, KIA sold 200+ K900s and Hyundai moved about 2700 Genesis sedans+coupes.

So the cars that compete against Rolls Royce get outsold nearly 3-1 by the Toyota Avalon (7000+) which has virtually no marketing $ put towards it while the Genesis/K900 are having their names plastered at soccer stadiums, SuperBowl etc etc. The Koreans probably spend more money marketing these pieces of junks than what they spend on R&D (snicker snicker) to copy them.