Toyota, Daihatsu, Hino YTD global sales for hit 6M-unit mark

Global sales of Toyota (including its subsidiaries Daihatsu and Hino) for the full seven months of 2023 breached the six-million mark.

For January-July this year, the Japanese marque turned over 6,338,186 examples to customers — reflecting an almost six-percent increase against the same period last year.

Toyota held the biggest chunk of the group’s overall sales, delivering 5,797,140 vehicles to its customers around the world. Trailing it is Daihatsu with 463,175 units sold, which enjoyed a 9.1 percent growth rate year-on-year.

However, sales for the Japanese truck maker — which was able to sell 77,871 units — slid down by 13.2 percent.

For July 2023 alone, the group had a 918,345-unit retail performance. Out of the aforementioned figures, Toyota sold 859,506 units — displaying a 7.8-percent increase. Daihatsu’s sales for the same month in 2022 dropped at 47,566 examples as it went down by 25 percent. Also, Hino’s sales experienced a 6.6-percent decrease, selling only 11,273 for the said month this year.

Earlier, Toyota Motor Corporation Chairman Akio Toyoda lauded its Philippine arm for being the brand’s 10th biggest market around the globe.

Production

On the other hand, the group manufactured 6,545,784 vehicles for the first seven months of 2023 and showed an improvement of 10.2-percent when compared to January-July 2022 figures.

Producing the greatest number of vehicles among the three is Toyota (5,703,171; 12.5-percent increase), followed by Daihatsu (745,548; 2.7-percent dip) and Hino (97,065; 3.5-percent drop).

In July 2023, TMC made 918,347 vehicles (10-percent increase).

Toyota still held the biggest contribution to the said number, producing 809,400 vehicles in its manufacturing facilities around the world and growing by 14.6-percent over the same period in 2022.

Meanwhile, production for Daihatsu and Hino slowed down by 15 and 16 percent, correspondingly, after they were only able to make 96,331 and 12,616 units.

In a statement, TMC said that the overall rise in sales and production is the result of the recovery from the impact of semiconductor shortages as well as on the effects of COVID-19.

“Global and overseas production both reached record highs as a result of improved production capacity in each region in response to solid demand,” TMC explained.

“We will continue to carefully monitor the parts supply situation and make every effort to deliver as many vehicles as possible to our customers at the earliest date,” the company added.

In January this year, TMC said that it is eyeing a production volume 10.6 units by yearend of 2023.

 

Photos from Toyota

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