Toyota outpaces GM and Volkswagen to remain the world’s largest car company:

Toyota outpaces GM and Volkswagen to remain the world’s largest car company:

Toyota’s sales rose 2.8% to 2.5M vehicles in Q3 ahead of GM’s 2.4M and Volkswagen’s 2.33M. Toyota is Japan’s biggest company has now led sales by volume in two of the last three quarters. Over the last nine months, Toyota has sold 7.41M vehicles to GM’s 7.25M and VWs 7.03M. In the U.S., Toyota’s Q3 shipments increased 12% to surpass Ford, but it remained behind GM.