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| More than half Toyotas worldwide made outside Japan | |
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Toyota sold 8,689,268 vehicles
under its own name in the year ending 31 March 2008, an increase of
But production in Japan rose by only 1.9 per cent and for the first time ever production in Toyota's home country accounted for less than 50 per cent of the worldwide total. Overseas production totalled 4,424,627 vehicles. The totals for Toyota include Lexus models.
Declining production in Japan is matched by declining sales there, with 4.9 per cent fewer vehicles sold in the 12 months to the end of March 2008 than in the preceding period.
Toyota's small car offshoot Daihatsu also saw a sales drop in Japan, down by 2.1 per cent, but again this was offset by gains outside Japan, so Daihatsu ended up with a worldwide growth of 1.1 per cent, the first increase for three years. |
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