Toyota remained the world’s top selling carmaker last year, ahead of General Motors and the Volkswagen group for the second consecutive year since returning to No 1 in 2012.
The weak yen underpinned sales overseas, Reuters reported. Toyota sales rose 2% in 2013 to 9.98m vehicles and the group expects annual sales to top a record 10m vehicles this year.
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The 2014 target of 10.32m vehicles, including sales from affiliated companies Daihatsu and Hino, would be 4% up on 2013. The Toyota group plans to manufacture 10.43m vehicles globally this year, up 3% year on year.
GM sold 9.71m vehicles last year, the report said, up 4% year on year while Volkswagen sales rose around 5% to more than 9.7m. VW has pledged to become the world’s largest automaker by 2018.
Toyota regained the global sales crown in 2012, after slipping to third place behind GM and Volkswagen in 2011, following natural disasters in Japan and Thailand, the news agency noted. Previously, Toyota had been on top from 2008 through 2010.
