中财网连江县人事人才:GM Is No. 1 In The World Again In Auto Sales
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GM Is No. 1 In The World Again In Auto Sales
发布时间：2012-01-20文章出自：福布斯原文链接：点击查看It’s been three years since General Motors could claim to be the world’s best selling automaker. But now it is back in the driver’s seat.
GM said Thursday that it sold 9.025 million vehicles in 2011. That would put it first among global carmakers, ahead of Volkswagen, with sales of 8.015 million, according to The New York Times.
Toyota, which has been No. 1 since 2008, hasn’t officially announced its 2011 numbers. But it estimates that it sold 7.9 million vehicles last year, when its performance was battered by the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, floods in Thailand, and the lingering impact of millions of recalls.
What does GM get from the number one spot? Bragging rights, certainly, although so far it isn’t trumpeting the victory. The sales numbers were camouflaged in a press release about Chevrolet.
Victories like this are balm for dealers, suppliers and everyone else associated with an auto company, not to mention the Obama Administration. It rolled the dice on the $82 billion bailout for the auto industry, including the managed bankruptcies at GM and Chrysler, and still owns a chunk of GM stock.
And, GM returns to its place in history. It ranked as the world’s biggest automaker for more than 70 years, since it passed Ford during the Great Depression.
Still, the fight will heat up again in 2012. Toyota is aiming to sell 8.48 million vehicles this year, and hopes to climb above 9 million in 2013. Volkswagen is aiming even higher: it hopes to sell 10 million vehicles by the end of the decade.
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