Archives for May 2021

In April, World’s Largest Automakers have resolutely recovered from the effects of the COVID-crisis, with Toyota and Volkswagen up 30% in their January through April sales compared to the same period last year.

Even the constant laggard Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi shows sudden signs of life. Renault is up 22%, Nissan 26%. Mitsu, up only 0.6%,  remains at crisis levels.

Once more, #1 Toyota extends its lead over 2^nd place Volkswagen Group. Toyota now is some 380,000 units ahead of VW, and Volkswagen will have to work awfully hard to catch up. Interestingly, while the published environment is all about electric vehicles, in the real world, the recovering vigor of BEV-skeptic Toyota exceeds that of recent BEV-convert Volkswagen and EV-pioneer Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi.  Let’s not even mention the comparatively homeopathic sales of loudmouth Tesla.

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