Toyota has retained its status as the world’s top-selling carmaker for the fourth year running. The Japanese giant sold 10.15 million cars in 2015, beating not just expectations, but Germany’s Volkswagen and USA’s General Motors to the crown.
VW sold 9.93 million vehicles and GM did 9.8 million to complete the podium. Hyundai-Kia managed 8.01 million. Nissan, which just released figures, said sales hit a record 5.42 million units in 2015. Add in sales from French partner Renault, and the Alliance’s 8.22 million combined sales puts it in fourth.
Toyota, which sold 10.23 million cars in 2014 to top the league, wasn’t the runaway leader this year. In fact, VW had been leading the sales race in the first half of 2015 before the “dieselgate” emissions scandal derailed Wolfsburg’s bid to oust Toyota.
Toyota profited from strong North American demand, as US sales breached the 17 million mark for a new record. While Toyota is facing sluggish sales in Thailand and Indonesia, a Japanese consumption tax hike planned for next year could spark a rush in buying in 2016. Toyota is likely to keep the crown for at least another year, although a slowdown in China could hurt numbers, analysts said.
Toyota first tasted life at the top when it broke GM’s decades-long stranglehold in 2008, but lost it three years later to the Detroit firm when an earthquake-tsunami disaster struck Japan in 2011. Toyota regained top spot from GM in 2012 and has remained there since.
AFP reports that Toyota had stopped building new plants for several years, and turned its focus to quality rather than sales volume. The company is also overhauling its production methods, vowing to slash development costs to try to offset any downturn in the market and squeeze more productivity out of existing plants.
The Japanese firm is also pushing environmentally friendly cars, especially in China where the government is struggling to contain air pollution. Toyota started producing its first mass-market hydrogen fuel-cell car, the Mirai, last year. It also rolled out an all-new Prius hybrid.
VW, which previously had ambitions to be the world’s biggest carmaker during Martin Winterkorn‘s reign, has abandoned the goal. “For me, this obsession with unit sales and the ambition to constantly reach new records makes no sense,” new chief Matthias Mueller told the weekly WirtschaftsWoche in an interview published last month. “I’m not going declare sheer size as an end in itself,” he added.
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300k moving coffins. Nuff said
Toyota is a good car. But only in overseas. In Malaysia, UMW has been cheating Malaysians with poor safety cars. In overseas, all toyotas come with VSC an about 6 to 10 airbags.
In Malaysia, because of the fact that UMW is GLC and Government owned, UMW can do anything. In Malaysia, UMW is known as Al Capone or Mafia. They strip the Toyota to basic level and sell you the Toyota, which, in global standards are highly dangerous.
In Malaysia for example, even top of the range Camry costing now RM160k has only 2 airbags and no VSC. The global Camry, which only cost US$22k, comes with 10 bags, VSC and about 20 other safety features taken out from UMW’s version of Toyota.
Why does UMW do this? Simple. They want to reap more profits at the expense of your life. How can we stop this? We can’t. UMW is the Government. So, as you know, in Malaysia, you cannot complain against the Government
But hoh, why crony naza can gip picanto with all safety, crony P1 can gip Preve, suprima, iriz, exora with all safety, crony drb-honda can gip city e & above with all safety? But then Party Hard has chosen toyota the official car to travel and die in woh? Meaning umw toyota is crony of Party Hard isit?
oh john oh john, how racist can you be. Pakai hotak sikit lah atau balik tidur
Honda may have beaten Toyota sales by an insignificant margin but who cares when worldwide Toyota is the champion in sales. Honda is nowhere to be seen in the world market and far behind Toyota which goes to show Toyota is far more superior over the likes of inferior Honda and Nissan. Over 95k people buying Honda and 45k Nissan buyers are really foolish to fall for their lousy gimmicks when Toyota clearly offers the far more superior cars.
Who cares about stupid airbags and VSC. Brand image is much more important and driving a Toyota is the top luxury brand here with highest RV of all vehicles with top notch reliability and after sales services. You will never go wrong with a Toyota!
You will probably never get to use the airbags or VSC anyway so why bother. However with bodykit, leather seats and DRL you get to use it daily and see it daily so its actually much more worth the money. Sportivo bodykit is top notch compared to fugly design of Mugen, Modulo, Impul and Nismo. Why would anyone want lousy fabric seats like in Honda when you can have luxurious leather seats in Toyota!
Sure recently there was a bit of a price increase but at least you will rest assured that your Toyota will last a lifetime!
So don’t be a foolish customer and go for lousy gimmicks like those offered in the inferior Honda and be smart like me choose a Toyota.
I am smart for choosing Toyota.
Be like me.
alldisc is now confirmed the official Toyota salesman who got no work in the showroom.
wow, this alldisc guy is the stupidest I have ever seen
the pro-Samm Loo..
At the very least you can see that consumers have become smarter with their choices.
Why are Malaysians going for Honda instead of Toyota?? The reason is value for money with better specs and most importantly safety.
Does Vios TRD Sportivo have ESC or 6 airbags?? At least City has ESC on the E spec and 6 airbags on V spec. Vios only offers extra bodykit and leather seats. Not to mention City scores much better in ASEAN NCAP than Vios and has 5 stars in ANCAP. Vios is a milo tin.
What about Altis?? No ESC for 1.8E and 1.8G and only 2 airbags on 2.0V. ESC comes as standard for Civic even at its base model of 1.8S. Airbag count increases to 6 on 2.0S and 2.0 Navi.
Lets move on to Camry now. Camry 2.0E does not have ESC but it comes as standard for Accord for all variants. Only the Camry 2.5 Hybrid has the best safety features but its the only vehicle in the entire Toyota range with more than 2 airbags.
Which Toyota model does not come with ESC even at its top spec variants?? Vios, Avanza, Innova, Previa, Hilux, Fortuner, Rush. Imagine Previa costing RM250k does not even have ESC and only 2 airbags?? At least Odyssey has ESC and 6 airbags as standard.
Don’t be a blind Toyota supporter. Their love for 2 airbags and ESC-less vehicles does not justify the high increase in price versus its close competitors. Sure Toyota may be number 1 worldwide but at least here in Malaysia under UMW they are inferior in terms of safety compared to many other brands!!
Those drive Toyota is sohai, tailangnyong, ahqua, LALA, aunty…
To the worlds worst imitation of me – alldisc.
Don’t you have your own personal image? Even Sam loo will give you thumbs down. If u have no idea of Nick names… I give u one. Ventilated disc. How is that, nice huh?
Toyota ichiban !!
But pls send more airbags to Malaysia ne
as long as not takata. Remember to kata tak to tak kata.
Both companies started about the same time. Hyundai cars actually started in the late 70s despite Hyundai Machinery starting earlier.
Now, Hyundai sells 8 million cars. Even their Tucson is up for awards now.
Proton where? Talk big, use up our money big time to stay afloat but can only make 100,000 in sales.
Malu Malu Malu
I din know P1 started in Merdeka era. Which history book u read this from?
this what happens when you sleep in class. Above said late 70s for Hyundai. Abang abang, tidur lagi ke?
Merdeka was when bang?
john is the official person to wash Najis bum.
Its better cuz less painful than bending down for Dear Leader. After 1 session only, alredi cannot walk straight
In overseas, Toyota is highly respected. But in Malaysia, Toyota now has become a laughing stock. If you buy one, people secretly laugh at you thinking you are the dumbest person in town cause the Toyota is heavily stripped of its safety features. Now somemore, Picanto, comes with 6 airbags and can be safer than a Camry!
Malaysians already now know how Toyota has been cheating people. Until today, even RM150k Camry got no VSC and only 2 airbags. Paultan already wrote long article how vital VSC is 3 years ago and yet UMW don’t care a damn for our lives.
Global price of Camry with 10 airbags and VSC is US$22,000. Besides VSC and 10 airbags, the global Camry has about 20 other safety features that is NOT in our Camry. These features are standard and free on the global Camry.
UMW don’t care about your life. you die or vegetable, they don’t care, janji untung lebih. They take out safety features to save cost. Yet, they charge us 3x the global price of US$22k. We buy for RM180k a heavily stripped down car. Same with Altis. Same with Vios.
Worse still, it is CKD and Made in Malaysia. The price is even cheaper. If US Toyota Camry is sold at US22k and still make a profit, you can bet that UMW will get this car at country distributor price of US15k. CKD it, it will be US$12k (about RM40k). But they sell to Malaysians for RM180k.
Camry Hybrid even better. US$26k. Come to Malaysia no tax. But sold for RM175k even when exchange rate was 3.5 to US dollar last year
If you really NEED reliable & MOST affordable Japanese CAR- go for Nissan (& surely without stylish & w/o Vios racing performance- refer 4 vios ad havoc doing in KL)
best option for Jap DNA before jump to Proton.
Almera same design available in US..(higher 1.6 engine to bring big ppl) while City/Vios orgin really meant for 3rd world.
maybe next is Suzuki., but for now still Nissan.
Proton fate able to improve under japs rule.
if still Proton controlled by Gedebe from east coat-
Honda/Suzuki fate will sinking deeper.
that is my advise.
Many claim the Vios is for 3rd world country, but Toyota actually used to sell the previous gen in the US as Yaris sedan.
It’s too sucky to continue its production so it’s stopped.
Proton even “jagung kampung” on third place in own country… world ranking ??? Top 3 start from behind !
Comparing global sales with local with bit export sales is absolutely stupid
Go ask your, self proclaim Proton CEO about his statement on GlobalSC… Lousy foolish supporter !!!
Now it’s PSC , p1 small car lor
The workers are lazy. Don’t want to work hard. All the time asking discounts and Government help. Lazy to the core.
its not about worker. its more to leadership and top management. when Dato’ Dato’ are involved, especially from GOVs,GLCs.
Mahadthir’s decision to private Proton is good. But it doesn’t have enough power to get rid of bad top management who ruin the whole creativity with cronies and such.
Toyota maybe number 1 worldwide but in Bolehland,Honda has overtaken it in sales in 2015,(Forget about commercial vehicles)for passenger cars.
Why?
A combination of factors,but I believe is aggressive marketing strategies and willingness to listen to customer requirements with competitive pricing.
UMW,on the other hand BOLIEVE in hyper-super inflated pricing to torture customers who still want a Toyota.
It is time Toyota JAPAN consider dumping UMW,in favour of more handworking bumi companies.There are plenty out there,waiting to be given a chance.
As long as not 3rd class moving coffins.
But you did not even get 3rd class in Uitm. You failed.
Nobody is touching Toyota now. Salesman all crying. It is known as the Moving Coffin. Bad luck to buy their cars. Before I talk about the rubbish Vios without VSC, lets talk about their Camry first.
Let us start with the Camry. The previous Camry, everybody boycott because at first when they introduced, it was the only Camry in the world without VSC. UMW thought it is better to reap more profits than the lives of Malaysians and took out the VSC. Then news went viral online and everybody started to boycott Camry. Sales dipped like mad. then UMW damage control. They recently put VSC back into Camry cars on higher end models but people still remember what a useless company UMW is to give peanuts to Malaysians and sacrifice our lives. A 10 airbag CBU Camry 2.5 in the US is US$22,000 (RM60,000). Here, we pay RM180,000 for a Made in Malaysia car with 2 airbags and no VSC. (now got VSC on higher end models). But the RM160k Camry still got no VSC and only 2 airbags.
The Altis, nobody is touching also. This car in the US, after discounts and bargaining is US$12,000. (RM39,000) Comes with 9 airbags and so many more features our toilet CKD does not have. Now with this Mazda 3, confirm mati Altis.
UMW Malaysia will get this Altis car in CKD form direct from Toyota Japan for about USD$8000. If Toyota USA can sell the CBU in USA for US$12,000 and still make money, UMW for sure will be getting this car far cheaper.
In Malaysia, we get the jamban made in Malaysia model with 2 airbags and no VSC. A Moving coffin. When a car does not have VSC, it is known as a moving coffin. Half the parts are Made in Malaysia. But the car is sold for RM139k. That is why you hardly can see an Altis on the road despite nearly 2 years launched.
Why do we have CKD when the CKD cost more than the CBU? To support crony part manufacturers? Rm39,000 vs RM139,000.
Anyway, Malaysians know that the Toyota Corolla is a big failure in Malaysia. Do you see it on the road at all? Drive the whole day and you hardly can bump into the 2014 Altis or a Vios despite being launched 1 year plus already (Vios). Everywhere you see Elantra or City.
Somemore Honda give 5 years vs Toyota’s 3 years warranty.
Malaysians rather buy Hyundai Elantra. The car after discounts can get RM85k and comes with VSC. Also, the car is a much bigger C segment than the Altis. No wonder why we see Elantra everywhere.
Malaysians already know that UMW regard Malaysian lives as dirt and don’t care whether you die or not. This Toyota Vios should be named as Toyota Moving Coffin because a car of this price, with no VSC is a risk to you and your family.
Malaysians have now dignity. they know UMW are big cheats. Charge so much for the car, yet compromise on our lives and safety of the family.
How UMW? Still no VSC? All over the world, Toyota comes with VSC as standard!
Our lives not important UMW?
The Vios is a Big big failure. No need to write a lot here. The City with VSC beats it flat. Tak payah cerita panjang. Even the apek jual ikan also know City is more highly specced than the Vios. So Vios is dead.
Sam loo(ori1) and Same Lorr also now hiding like chickens. They will come in here and say Toyota got good RV but in truth, nobody is going to buy UMW’s trash in Malaysia. Even now, their RV jatuh like hell. 11 months old Camry 2.5, you can buy RM98k, drop from RM180k. In 11 months, the car can drop RM82k.
Actually even with commercial vehicles, Honda Malaysia still manage to overtake UMW Toyota. This proves that more and more people refuse to spend unreasonably on a outdated product.
The latest U.S. Camry is much better looking than the Aurion that we’re getting here, why not replace it. They should also introduce the Avalon here at a slightly lower price than the German makes, a sure winner.
Good for them, sadly in Malaysia is under UMW.
Expected UMW will do more damage on the brand this year.
Toyoda quality not up to the par Eg frum Thailand factory…many similiar poblems reported in the Altis sold in Malaysia (knocking sound)
Dam, Hyundai please buck up. Need you to sell more Sonata, Elantra and Tucson to sorhai tai lan ngongs
But some pipu say Kia is BMW of asia. lexus can ‘chau hoi tik’
abang, better you eat some bak kut teh
Just wondering how do you stop those pesky WAJAM Ads that keep blocking the pictures.
Can you email me a screenshot to [email protected]
thats not paul’s website.
it’s your PC/LAPTOP infected with malware.
It happened to me before and worse in mudah website.
Go download adware.. Or any app that will block advertisements.
Well the best selling doesn’t mean u r the best in technology and worth a penny. Just like the best selling arilines maybe like Virgin Airlines doesnt mean they are the best. Well its ok to cater for low mid to middle income earners. but talking about technology, Toyata slightly offer more technology than Honda such as 6 speed and its Prius Hybrid but that’s it. In this world sometimes is not just about how much money you make but how far u have gone and how fast u become the ‘first mover’ of the technology/competitive advantage. In terms of design and Interior, Honda score more on exterior and interior. but yaaa toyota manage to capture the right target market. The ‘no taste’ market.
Apparently u never went to japan and see the range of cars Toyota sells over there.
So Toyota is no 1 in the world. I see many butt-hurt here saying Toyota this, Toyota that. Where is Honda by the way…
Boring new japs cars. All are squarish or ugly like hell
I guess the only material you read is Paultan.org eh? You’ve gotta google which company introduced the world’s first 8-speed gearbox and now the world’s first 10-speed gearbox. You also need to google how the CVT (not normal CVT) works in its hybrid system. When it comes to pushing advanced tech to mass production, Toyota is second to none. They didn’t invent the hybrid system but they’re the first to mass produce it. They also made Pre-crash, Lane-keep Assist, Blindspot monitoring tech common with the new safety package. There’s just too much to list; please make sure you read more.
Very ugly look, who agree?