Volkswagen has overtaken Toyota

 

 

VW Group is already the largest car manufacturer in the world, a report by the Italian consulting company Focus2move. Last year the Germans have sold 9,919,305 cars against 9,818,609 for the previous leader Toyota.

The conclusion of Focus2move is based on information from the markets of 110 countries worldwide. The data are inconclusive, but the lead VW 100 000 cars seems too large to be due to statistical error.

According to the report Focus2move in 2014 the market of passenger cars rose by 2.8% compared to the previous year and has reached 86.5 million. Vehicles with 2.5 million. More than 2013 a.

If the data are confirmed, the European manufacturer became the largest in the world for the first time since the end of World War II. Decades after their championship challenge General Motors and Ford. Only in 2009, Toyota took advantage of the financial problems of the US giants and sat in first place until 2013-a (only exception was in 2011, when Japanese industry was hit by a devastating earthquake).

The success of the VW Group is due to the excellent sales of Skoda and Audi, which grew by 10.2% and 9.3% respectively. Volkswagen brand itself has managed to achieve 2.4 percent more cars in 2014

Third place in the ranking of sales last year after VW and Toyota are arranged GM (8.01 mln. Cars), Renault-Nissan (7.95 million.), Hyundai-Kia (7.55 million.), Ford (5.91 million.), Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (4.56 million.), Honda (4.46 million.), PSA Peugeot-Citroen (3.15 million.) and Suzuki (2.90 million.).