Toyota Surpasses Ford As No. 2 Automaker
Posted on: Sunday, 25 January 2004, 06:00 CST
Toyota Motor Corp. surpassed Ford Motor Co. of the United States as the world's No. 2 automaker, according to global sales numbers released Monday by the Japanese automaker that confirmed last week's preliminary data.
Toyota confirmed the tally it gave last Friday for worldwide sales for 2003 of 6.78 million vehicles, up 9.9 percent from 6.17 million the previous year. Last week, Ford said its 2003 sales slipped to 6.72 million vehicles, down 3.6 percent from 6.97 million the year before.
The world's largest automaker remains General Motors Corp. of the United States, which sold 8.6 million vehicles in 2003.
The Ford tally does not include sales for Mazda Motor Corp., a Japanese automaker 33 percent owned by the Dearborn, Michigan-based automaker. Adding Mazda sales of about a million vehicles a year will put Ford ahead of Toyota.
Ford's tally includes its brands, Ford, Lincoln, Mercury, Aston Martin, Volvo, Jaguar and Land Rover. Toyota sales include group companies Hino Motors and Daihatsu Motor Co.
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