Toyota Regains Top Spot!

Toyota Motor said Monday its group global vehicle sales in 2012 rose 22.6 percent from a year earlier to 9.75 million units, regaining the top spot it relinquished in 2011 in terms of worldwide vehicle sales by volume. 
 

General Motors Co. of the United States ranked second with sales rising 2.9 percent to 9.29 million units, followed by Volkswagen AG of Germany, which sold 9.07 million units, up 11.2 percent.
Toyota's auto sales were boosted by robust demand in the United States and Southeast Asia, which more than offset dwindling sales in China in the wake of anti-Japan protests over a bilateral territorial dispute.