Global car sales will break 80 million for the first time

On the afternoon of December 17th, Beijing time, LMC Automotive, the global automotive industry consultancy, said that due to the strong sales in the US and Japan offsetting the adverse effects of the weak European market, sales of cars and trucks in the world will exceed 8,000 for the first time in 2012. 10,000 cars. As 2012 is coming to an end, major automakers around the world are making final competitions. Toyota Motors has secured the crown of the world’s largest automaker, and Volkswagen and General Motors are competing for second place.

Toyota Motor is recovering from the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan and is preparing to win the championship from General Motors. The gap between Volkswagen and General Motors, which competed for the runner-up, is very small. Their sales gap is small. Less than 1%. The three companies benefited from the strong US light vehicle market, which may become the third consecutive year of growth since 2009. The United States market is expected to grow again next year and will be the longest period of growth since the end of World War II. Rebecca, an analyst at global automotive industry consultancy IHS Automotive ? Rebecca Lindland said: "Because the United States is such a big market, when the market achieves double-digit growth, it will promote growth in other markets in the world."

The automotive industry will face more fierce competition in 2013. LMC Automotive predicts that Volkswagen will increase its production capacity by 600,000 next year. It is expected that the rebound in the Chinese market will benefit the development prospects of the German automaker. Volkswagen has said that it will become the global leader in car sales in 2018.

The data shows that in the first three quarters of this year, Toyota's sales were 7.4 million, which was ahead of 6.9 million of General Motors and 6.9 million of Volkswagen. In the first 11 months of this year, Toyota continued to rebound in the US and Japan markets, and the company’s sales increased by 29% in the United States.

General Motors has been profitable for 12 consecutive quarters since receiving US$50 billion in aid from the US government in 2009. In the first nine months of this year, GM's global sales increased by 2.5% over the entire year of 2011. In the first 11 months of this year, GM’s sales in the United States increased by 3.5%, and sales growth in China exceeded 10%, offsetting a 12.5% ​​decline in Europe. Mary Barra, senior vice president of global product development at General Motors, said: "We believe we have a good position in important growth markets such as Brazil, India, Russia and China."

At present, no automaker can sell 10 million cars within a year. Both Toyota and Volkswagen expect to achieve this goal in the coming years.