Toyota Motor Corp. in the first nine months of 2015 has regained the title of the leading motor companies in terms of sales amid a scandal around Volkswagen, according to Bloomberg. The Japanese group reported that it had sold 7.49 million vehicles, while the German company in the index has reached 7.43 million.
In the first half of 2015, Volkswagen walked on shipments of Japanese companies However, in September, he had problems because of the faulty software.
United States Environmental Protection Agency stated that the software installed on Volkswagen vehicles with diesel engines, allows you to bypass the level check emissions. After that, the US government ordered the company to withdraw from the US market of 500 thousand. Machines.
Volkswagen was forced to partially suspend the sale of some models of diesel cars in the country. The company acknowledged that faulty software supplied with 11 million cars around the world.
Then, resigned head of the group, Martin Winterkorn, who set the goal to overtake Toyota and General Motors in terms of sales. The new director was the head of Porsche Matthias Müller.
Toyota has regained the palm of sales in 2012. Before that, in 2011, it has slipped to third place, behind GM and Volkswagen on the background of natural disasters in Japan and Thailand. In 2008-2010 Toyota has also consistently ranked first.
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