| Toyota Motor Corp. exceeded General Motors (GM) in | | | | vehicles at minority-held subsidiaries and this data was |
| the 2006 overall sales, making the Japanese auto | | | | written in Detroit-based weekly Automotive News, |
| maker the biggest car maker all over the world. But | | | | whose data centre publishes a ranking, which is widely |
| according to a leading auto industry journal, Reuters | | | | quoted, of the world's automakers around in the |
| reported that many had expected that the surpassing | | | | present generation every year. |
| will take place in 2007. | | | | The Automotive News holds the statement published |
| The huge and top Japanese auto maker outstripped | | | | by Crain Communications that in Toyotaâs |
| GM by nearly 128,000 units last year. The figure was | | | | success, a little-known Chinese microvan played a vital |
| based on a technicality which excludes sales of | | | | role. |