Wednesday Morning Auto News, Jul 02, 2025: BYD sales hit new high. Musk takes on sales job. Xpeng defies China’s EV price war. More.

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Tuesday Morning Auto News, Jul 01, 2025: Renault to report $11.2 billion loss on Nissan stake. Musk and Trump are at it again. Nissan to delay supplier payments. More.

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World’s Largest Automakers, May 2025: Toyota steps on the – yes – gas.

Toyota Group clocked in yet another record sales month in May, which brought the Jan-May total to 4,607,634 units, up a stout 8.4% compared to the same period last year. Imagine, analysts and pundits around the world notoriously predicted that the BEV-skeptic would be in rusty ruins by now.  Toyota is powered by a global trend towards – hybrids.

Quarterly-reporting Volkswagen Group is AWOL again. Fresh numbers in a month.

Third-ranked Hyundai Group managed a small 0.9% gain due to strong sales of the junior partner Kia, up 2.3%, which more than made up for the tiny 0.2% decrease at mother Hyundai.

Caveat: All sales data as reported by the respective automaker. Note that “sales” can be an elastic term, some OEMs report hard registrations, some “sales to wholesale,” which can mean cars placed on dealer lots, or transferred to the OEM’s sales organization. Methods may differ from region to region. Some report “deliveries,” which can be nothing more than cars moved out of the factory door, some report hard registrations tabulated by government entities. Even those numbers can be skewed by “self-registrations” performed by dealers and OEMs alike.

 

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Friday Morning Auto News, Jun 27, 2025: Afshar out at Tesla. Record sales at Toyota. Xiaomi’s SUV takes on Tesla. More.

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Thursday Morning Auto News, Jun 26, 2025L Robotaxi makes many mistakes. Trump’s tariffs could upend the auto industry. Nissan’s shareholders aren’t impressed, More,

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