GM is no longer world’s largest automaker

gm logoGM 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.

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Paul Tan

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.

 

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  • Kevin Lee (Member) on Jan 22, 2009 at 2:45 am

    just hope gm will benefit from daewoo’s small r&d, the rest is pretty f*ed

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  • sakuragi (Member) on Jan 22, 2009 at 7:23 am

    And where’s Honda? Far inferior.

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  • db8 (Member) on Jan 22, 2009 at 7:49 am

    why suddenly honda??
    u hate honda?

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  • nuzzary (Member) on Jan 22, 2009 at 9:35 am

    the bigger they are… the harder they fall…

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  • Wisdom (Member) on Jan 22, 2009 at 9:55 am

    Well they’ve got their loan from US government.

    Should change to Government Motor instead of General Motor.

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  • 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. (Member) on Jan 22, 2009 at 12:03 pm

    bmw to become world largest carmaker

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  • torque (Member) on Jan 22, 2009 at 4:31 pm

    Sad……very…..very sad…..NOT!!! :-p

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  • autojohndoe (Member) on Jan 22, 2009 at 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

    ***********

    1st time to agree with you… hahaha

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  • mystvearn (Member) on Jan 22, 2009 at 8:13 pm

    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.

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  • sakuragi (Member) on Jan 23, 2009 at 6:40 am

    naa.. never hated honda one bit. just not a big fan and bored of how honda fans actually love to take digs on toyota.

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  • xavier_lert (Member) on Jan 23, 2009 at 8:59 am

    not making profit since 2004?….hmm they’ve been paid to much….(the worker)…per hour basis………damn…..

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  • 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. (Member) on Jan 23, 2009 at 3:28 pm

    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

    ***********

    1st time to agree with you… hahaha
    ———————-
    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.

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  • layman (Member) on Jan 23, 2009 at 7:29 pm

    At this time, A Good company is always better than a Big company.

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  • Ryan-Stock Market Pr on Mar 13, 2009 at 1:45 am

    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.

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