Toyota sold 10.5-million vehicles in 2022, it said on Monday, defending its title as the world's top-selling carmaker for a third straight year.
Global sales for the group, including truck unit Hino Motors and small car maker Daihatsu, inched down 0.1% as record overseas sales of 8.6-million vehicles helped offset a 9.6% dip in its home market to 1.9-million.
Second-ranked rival Volkswagen earlier this month reported its lowest sales in more than a decade, 8.3-million vehicles, as Covid-19 lockdowns in China and the war in Ukraine upended supply chains.
While some chip-related supply constraints remained for Toyota as well, the Japanese carmaker said strong demand in Asia and an increase in the production capacity and optimisation in Asia and North America helped it boost global production by 5% in 2022.
Toyota in November revised its production forecast for the current financial year through the end of March, to 9.2-million vehicles from 9.7-million.
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