Toyota takes early sales lead with No. 2 US spot
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General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co.  lost more than a sixth of their combined U.S. sales in January, and Toyota Motor Corp. extended its 20-month winning streak and claimed the No. 2 spot in the U.S. market.
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G.M. said it sold 9,369,524 vehicles, a 3 percent increase. Toyota last week reported its sales as a rounded 9.37 million, 6 percent more than in 2006.
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Japanese car maker Toyota clocks up an 11.4% rise in interim profits by boosting sales in all its major markets including the US.
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Toyota Motor Corp. (7203.T) posted a  rise in January U.S. auto sales on Thursday, claiming the No. 2  spot in the world's largest market for cars and trucks, as  sales by rival Ford Motor Co  fell sharply.
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TOKYO -- Toyota plans to sell 10.4 million vehicles globally in 2009, it said Friday, a sales target that would put the Japanese automaker ahead of a record set by world leader General Motors 30 years ago.
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DETROIT -- Toyota Motor Corp. overtook Ford Motor Co. to become the No. 2 automaker by U.S. sales in 2007, using new products and relentless strategy to break Ford's 75-year lock on the position.
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Toyota said today that it sold 2.34 million vehicles globally in the third quarter, running neck-and-neck against General Motors, which sold 2.38 million vehicles.
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Sales growth in China and other emerging markets offset a decline in North America to help push Toyota's profit up 7.5 percent for its third fiscal quarter.
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Toyota Motor Corp. is quickening its quest to unseat ailing rival General Motors Corp. as the world's biggest automaker and widen its lead over Ford Motor Co. with reported plans to boost overseas production by 40 percent to 5 million vehicles by 2008 and blueprints for higher output in North America.
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General Motors Corp. narrowed the  gap with top seller Toyota Motor Corp. in the first half of  2007 thanks to a solid second quarter, although demand  continued to fall in its home North American market.
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SOUTHFIELD, Mich. -- Toyota Motor Corp. , Japan's biggest automaker, boosted US sales 14 percent in May, outselling Ford Motor Co. in its home market for the third time in seven months.
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Asian automakers, led by Toyota Motor and Nissan Motor, gained a record share of the US market in October as improved quality and fuel efficiency bolstered demand for their newest car and light truck models.
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Toyota Motor Corp. reported a slight dip in earnings in the second fiscal quarter but marked a record profit for the first fiscal half Monday as sales growth in North America, Europe and Japan offset losses from an unfavourable exchange rate.
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Sales of hybrid vehicles rose 28  percent in 2006 but growth in the segment dominated by Toyota  Motor Corp.'s (7203.T) Prius is starting to slow, according to  retail sales data released on Monday.
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Japanese carmakers - including Toyota, Nissan and Honda - increased their market share in the US last month, latest sales figures have shown.
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