Toyota ranked first in global car sales in 2024

For the fifth year in a row, Toyota has topped the global ranking of car companies. Strangely enough, this became known after the publication of the full 12-month sales report of the Volkswagen Group.

The fact is that the German carmaker's deliveries fell by 2.3 per cent to 9,027,400 units. Toyota has yet to release full sales results for 2024, but as of November, it had sold 9,857,938 vehicles worldwide. This number includes sales of the Toyota, Lexus, Daihatsu and Hino brands.

Even excluding December sales, which have not yet been released, Toyota already has a significant lead of 830,538 vehicles over the VW Group. This is despite a 3.6 per cent drop in sales between January and November compared to the same period in 2023.

VW Group has once again failed to catch up with Toyota, despite having many more brands under its huge corporate umbrella. The German auto conglomerate also offers a wider range of plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles, but that wasn't enough to dethrone Toyota.

Hyundai Motor Group, which includes the Hyundai brand as well as Kia and Genesis, is likely to take third place on the virtual pedestal, recording 7.23 million sales in 2024. That's down 1 per cent from a year earlier.

Source: Motor1