TOKYO – The world’s biggest automaker got bigger in 2021 and by a bigger margin.
Toyota clinched the world sales title again last year and expanded its lead over No. 2 Volkswagen Group by deftly dodging the global semiconductor shortage.
Toyota rocked the sales charts by chalking a 10.1 percent increase in worldwide deliveries to 10.496 million vehicles for calendar year 2021. Global sales at Germany’s VW, by contrast, declined 4.5 percent to 8.882 million vehicles in 2021 as the microchip crisis dented deliveries.