GM is no longer than world’s largest automaker in terms of sales, ending its 77-year claim to that title. GM only sold 8.36 million units in 2008, which is slightly less than Toyota’s 8.97 million units. Who knows what will happen in 2009 though, GM may overtake Toyota again, Toyota may leave GM even further behind, or GM may just cease to exist. Now is not the time to be bothered about such titles, especially since GM has not posted a profit since 2004. More profit per car is what needs to be achieved, not more cars sold.
After dabbling for years in the IT industry, Paul Tan initially began this site as a general blog covering various topics of personal interest. With an increasing number of readers paying rapt attention to the motoring stories, one thing led to another and the rest, as they say, is history. An avid electronic gadget aficionado as well as big-time coffee lover, he's also the executive producer of the Driven motoring TV programme.
just hope gm will benefit from daewoo’s small r&d, the rest is pretty f*ed
And where’s Honda? Far inferior.
why suddenly honda??
u hate honda?
the bigger they are… the harder they fall…
Well they’ve got their loan from US government.
Should change to Government Motor instead of General Motor.
bmw to become world largest carmaker
Sad……very…..very sad…..NOT!!! :-p
Sex is wonderful, but it’s like champagne.If you’re forced to have four glasses at every meal you start to fantasize about water. said,
January 22, 2009 @ 12:03 pm
bmw to become world largest carmaker
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1st time to agree with you… hahaha
I think toyota will pull forward with the detroit big 3 become like top 10 car makers. Other brands will overtake for 2nd place soon.
naa.. never hated honda one bit. just not a big fan and bored of how honda fans actually love to take digs on toyota.
not making profit since 2004?….hmm they’ve been paid to much….(the worker)…per hour basis………damn…..
autojohndoe said,
January 22, 2009 @ 6:21 pm
Sex is wonderful, but it’s like champagne.If you’re forced to have four glasses at every meal you start to fantasize about water. said,
January 22, 2009 @ 12:03 pm
bmw to become world largest carmaker
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1st time to agree with you… hahaha
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lol…nobody knows, 50 yrs time. rebirth of all the british brands, james bond(played by daniel radcliffe) in dr.no 2 uses a triumph spitfire.
At this time, A Good company is always better than a Big company.
After retaining the titlefor continous 77 years at last Toyata snatched the title from GM and become the world largest automaker from Japa.The other contestents like BMW,Nissan,Fiat etc are far behind.Now GM will try to salvage some pride and increase the GM Share Price to fill up the loss suffered in the year 2008.