TOKYO – The world’s biggest automaker got bigger in 2021 and by a bigger margin.
Japanese juggernaut Toyota Motor Corp. clinched the world sales title again last year and expanded its lead over No. 2 Volkswagen Group by deftly dodging the global semiconductor shortage.
Toyota rocked the sales charts behind worldwide deliveries that rose 10.1 percent to 10.496 million in calendar year 2021. Global sales at Germany’s VW Group, by contrast, declined 4.5 percent to 8.882 million in 2021 as the microchip crisis dented deliveries.