In the first four months of this year, Toyota sold 1million more cars worldwide than Volkswagen. If this trend continues, Toyota is expected to win the global sales champion for the third consecutive year Toyota said on Monday that global sales fell 5.8 percent in the first four months of this year, while sales of its German competitors fell 26 percent.
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Last month, due to the spread of the COVID-19 in Japan and overseas, Toyota failed to meet its production target, but still successfully surpassed Volkswagen.
In March this year, Toyota President Akio Toyoda told employees that the company was reviewing the production plan with suppliers to avoid "fatigue". The company set a new record for global automobile production that month.
So far this year, Volkswagen's sales in China, its largest market, have been poor, with sales falling by 30% as of April. The automaker's business scale in Western Europe is also much larger than that of Toyota, but the conflict between Russia and Ukraine has further disrupted the already tense supply chain in Western Europe.