VW closes market cap gap with Toyota

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Luca Ciferri

January 05, 2012 05:00 AM

It will take weeks to determine which automaker finished No. 1 in vehicle sales last year, but we already know which company was the 2011 market capitalization champion: Toyota Motor Corp. with Volkswagen AG rising to No. 2 from fourth in 2010.

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