Toyota regains world's largest carmaker crown

Toyota has officially taken back the crown as the world’s largest carmaker. The Japan based carmaker sold 9.75 million vehicles last year, representing an impressive jump of 22.6 per cent from a year ago.

GM, meanwhile, dropped a place with total sales of 9.29 million vehicles however, when compared to last year’s figures; sales were up by 2.9 per cent. While German auto giant Volkswagen sold 9.1 million vehicles, up by 11.2 per cent.

Toyota earlier took the top spot as the world’s largest carmaker from GM back in 2008 however; the latter regained the sales crown in 2011 as Toyota’s production was severely hurt by natural disasters in northeastern Japan.