Total sales were at once put the GM as the world's largest automaker Toyota, which surpassed since 2008 and known as the number one global manufacturer. "The number of Toyota's production has dropped 23 percent, or only 3.37 million units during the first half of this year," the statement Autodata Corporation, which was released some time ago and reported by autoguide Sunday, August 7, 2011.
Decreased production of Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) is the impact of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan on 11 March last. As a result, Toyota's position is now in third place.
The sales of the Volkswagen Group (VW) in that period recorded 4.13 million units. Total sales are delivered VW was second in the ranks of the world's largest automaker.
Previously, Akio Toyoda, Toyota's president, said the Toyota plant began operations with a production capacity of 90 percent from last June. But the production process to fully recover to normal is expected in November.
Takeshi Miyao, an analyst at Carnorama, a consultancy in Tokyo, said that to catch up to Toyota was not a difficult problem. Even if the production process has been recovered, the manufacturer only took a few months to recover the sale as before.
"Toyota will probably surpass Volkswagen until the end of the year (fiscal year ending March 2012),"
