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Looks like VW outsold VW in 2016. 10.31 million vehciles versus Toyota's 10.175 million.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38793253
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VW Passes Up Toyota Sales
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Oddly enough, the World’s Largest Automaker title is not bestowed based on how many vehicles an automaker has sold.
Global automakers are ranked on how many cars they have produced.
The ranking is done by OICA, the Paris-based International Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers institution. OICA is the go-to source for Wikipedia, and for statistical number crunchers from Germany’s Satistisches Bundesamt to the United Nations. OICA has its reasons for ranking automakers by production instead of sales, detailed in the link to the Forbes article below.
If we want to crown the World’s Largest Automaker according to the official OICA rulebook, then we need to rank them by production. That brings a problem: Toyota publishes "monthly production statistics," Volkswagen does not. Volkswagen publishes “deliveries." Deliveries and production “differ slightly,” because after all, a car that was produced in 2016 may only have been delivered in 2017.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bertelschmitt/2017/01/30/its-official-volkswagen-worlds-largest-automaker-2016-or-maybe-toyota/#272c4dfc76b0
Oddly enough, the World’s Largest Automaker title is not bestowed based on how many vehicles an automaker has sold.
Global automakers are ranked on how many cars they have produced.
The ranking is done by OICA, the Paris-based International Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers institution. OICA is the go-to source for Wikipedia, and for statistical number crunchers from Germany’s Satistisches Bundesamt to the United Nations. OICA has its reasons for ranking automakers by production instead of sales, detailed in the link to the Forbes article below.
If we want to crown the World’s Largest Automaker according to the official OICA rulebook, then we need to rank them by production. That brings a problem: Toyota publishes "monthly production statistics," Volkswagen does not. Volkswagen publishes “deliveries." Deliveries and production “differ slightly,” because after all, a car that was produced in 2016 may only have been delivered in 2017.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bertelschmitt/2017/01/30/its-official-volkswagen-worlds-largest-automaker-2016-or-maybe-toyota/#272c4dfc76b0