Americans purchased 15,603,518 new cars and light trucks final year. Let that number roll about in your head for a minute. Fifteen million, 6 hundred and 3 thousand, 5 hundred and eighteen. That’s a single vehicle for each man, woman, and youngster in the cities of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Austin, Texas, combined. (But none for anyone in Topeka. Sorry, Kansans.) It’s nearly 30 autos sold each minute.
Whilst Americans purchased a new car or truck each and every 2 seconds, even though, individuals worldwide bought 2.6 vehicles per second. An astonishing 12 percent of these have been Toyotas. Such as Daihatsu and its Hino commercial line, the Japanese giant’s 9.98 million sales are a New York pizza slice out of the 83.23 million new automobiles gobbled up in 2013. According to IHS, which is in some techniques the Toyota of business-data gathering, the globe will see 25 million new-automobile sales by 2018. Toyota, for its element, is expecting to sell far more than 10 million autos in 2014.
The silver medal goes to Volkswagen, with 9.73 million sales (47 of them Bugatti Veyrons), although Common Motors managed 9.72 million. Lest there be any query of who’s the boss, although, Toyota out-earned VW and GM combined in the 4th quarter of 2013.
Some thing Old, Something New
Final year’s 83.23 million sales are a neat tenth of the active international fleet. According to last count by the International Organization of Motor Automobile Manufacturers, there are 833.34 million light automobiles at the moment in use worldwide. Add in heavy trucks (due to the fact larger numbers bruise brains) and you get 1.14 billion autos.
The Path to Riches
Listed alphabetically right here are the 50 largest vehicle markets in the world. The 10 biggest are in gray. Within every of these, we’ve broken out the marketplace share held by Toyota, Volkswagen, and General Motors.
Wuling the Planet: How Are International Auto Sales Distributed? [Infographic]
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