The world’s top selling car brand name has an obvious
close connection to Woodstock.
Toyota, which builds its RAV4 SUV in Woodstock and
employs more than 6,000 between its local plant and facility in Cambridge
(TMMC), has passed General Motors in total worldwide sales numbers. The 2012 total of 9.748 million vehicles off the assembly line and sold obviously depicts
that Toyota is now fully recovered from the tsunami which followed an earthquake, hitting Japan in 2011.
In you are employed with Toyota and are considering
setting down roots in Oxford County, call me today to begin your home hunting.
The following story from The Associated Press appeared in
the Waterloo Region Record.
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Toyota
back at No. 1 selling nearly 9.75 million vehicles in 2012, dethroning GM
officially
By YURI KAGEYAMA, The Associated Press
TOKYO – Now it’s official: Toyota is once again the
world’s top automaker.
Toyota Motor Corp. released its tally for global vehicle
sales for last year Monday at a record 9.748 million vehicles — a bigger number
than the estimate it gave last month of about 9.7 million vehicles.
It was already clear Toyota had dethroned General Motors
Co. as the Detroit-based automaker fell short, selling 9.29 million vehicles.
GM had been the top-selling automaker for more than seven
decades before losing the title to Toyota in 2008.
GM retook the sales crown in 2011, when Toyota’s
production was hurt by the quake and tsunami in northeastern Japan.
The latest results show Toyota’s powerful comeback.
Global vehicle sales for the maker of the Camry sedan,
Prius hybrid and Lexus luxury model surged nearly 23 per cent from the previous
year. Overseas sales jumped 19 per cent, while sales in Japan, where the
economy has been troubled, recovered a whopping 35 per cent.
Volkswagen AG of
Germany, the world’s No. 3 automaker, sold a record 9.1 million vehicles around
the world.
All three automakers
play down the significance of the sales ranking and say they are focused on
making attractive products.
“Rather than going
after numbers, we hope to make fine products, one by one, to keep out customers
satisfied. The numbers are just a result of our policy. And our policy will
continue unchanged,” said Toyota spokeswoman Shino Yamada.
Still, the recovery
for Toyota is impressive. Like other Japanese automakers, Toyota’s production
was devastated by the March 2011 disasters, which disrupted supplies of crucial
components. Flooding in Thailand, where Toyota has factories, also hurt car
production.
Before that, it
struggled against a crisis of massive recalls in the U.S. over defective floor
mats, gas pedals and brakes, involving millions of vehicles, some recalled over
and over, that hurt its reputation for quality.
Toyota officials have
vowed to scrutinize quality, and have held back product development to minimize
recalls.
From the middle of
last year, it was hit by another kind of problem — a widespread boycott of
Japanese products, including Toyota cars, in China over a territorial dispute.
But sales growth in other parts of the world, including
the U.S. and Asian nations such as Indonesia and India, was more than enough to
offset such losses.
Big expectations for 2013
Toyota is planning to sell 9.91 million vehicles globally
in 2013, putting it back on track toward its earlier goal of 10 million
vehicles — a target that it had made a special effort to play down after its
recall crisis.
The Associated Press
Mark Schadenberg, sales rep
Royal LePage Triland Brokerage
In you are employed with Toyota
and are considering
setting down roots in Oxford County,
call me today to begin your home hunting.
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