Toyota has dethroned GM to become America’s top selling automaker, making the first time ever that a Detroit automaker wasn’t the best-selling car company in the U.S.
“Toyota was able to manage supply chain issues better, allowing it to take away GM’s throne for the first time in 90 years. An ongoing shortage of semiconductor chips caused sporadic shutdowns of plants and led to record-low vehicle inventories in 2021.
GM said Tuesday it sold 2.2 million vehicles in the U.S. in 2021, down by 12.9% compared to the year earlier. Toyota, by comparison, said it sold 2.3 million vehicles in the U.S. last year, up by 10.4% compared to 2020. The difference in sales between the two automakers was 114,034 vehicles.”
It is important to point out that many of Toyota’s cars & trucks are made in the US.