Volkswagen Group Ousts Toyota To Be World’s Number One

Volkswagen Group delivered 10,312,400 new vehicles to customers last year, up by 3.8 per cent on 2015, to claim the honour of being the world’s best-selling automotive brand.

This success narrowly displaced Toyota from the top ranking as the Japanese giant delivered 10,175,000 vehicles (growth of only 0.2 per cent over 2015).

To put those numbers in perspective Volkswagen sold 933,300 vehicles in the month of December alone, whereas total Australian new car sales for all brands over the whole of 2016 was 1,178,133.

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