Toyota has American Goliath General of the world's largest automobile manufacturers, a position that held for 77 years removed Motors plunged, of.
Toyota has despite hit by the global financial crisis together with the majority of the automotive industry, 8.97 million cars in 2008 sold.
While this was 4% down on his 2007 figure, was the company better last year as a GM, a 10.8% decline to $ 8.35 million recorded.
Although GM growth in Latin America, Africa and the Middle East and Asia Pacific recorded regions it was particularly difficult in its traditionally strong North American market, met where sales declined 21%.
GM took over company Ford as the world's largest car during the great depression in 1931 and had since remained.
The two other American auto giant - Ford and Chrysler - experienced a turbulent year in your local market, which culminated in a 13.4 billion US-dollars-rescue package for GM and Chevrolet.
Toyota of spokesman Mike Michels downplayed the importance of the reversal at the Spitze.Zitiert in the Baltimore Sun, he said that corporate rankings "simply won't show up in customer surveys as a reason for buying a car".
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