Toyota tops GM in world auto sales

[HPTuners]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18286221/

TOKYO - Toyota Camry, take a bow. Prius, bask in the limelight. Strong demand for those models helped propel the Japanese car maker onto the throne as the world’s largest auto seller — at least for the first quarter of 2007.

Through a shrewd combination of investing in environment-friendly vehicles, offering sharp new models and wooing drivers with brand power, Toyota has toppled GM from the top global sales spot for the first time ever, sales figured released on Tuesday show.

[79CamaroDiva]

... waiting for Al

[qwikz28]

i hope every toyota on the road breaks down tomorrow. even the 3 my family own.

[BigAls87Z28]

S*** happens. Seems a lot of people are happy about this, and are glad to see GM drop to #2, especialy in the business world. While watching CNBC today, Michigan had a commercial that talked about the money and funding they gave Toyota to develop an advance training center in Mich.

[NJSPEEDER]

i find it interesting that toyota published this claim in a press release yet no one else has released numbers that support it. not saying it isn't true since toyota has ben creeping up on GM for a while now, just owndering why it would come out from them first.

[SteveR]

Was it Toyota that benefitted from that huge scandal a few years back where the top execs from GM left and gave all that info to Toyota?