The Japanese radio b newspaper people is making a conceitedly to-do obsolete of the combined 2009 sales of Volkswagen and Suzuki. Or less obsolete of the in point of fact that the two together sold more than Toyota. „Suzuki-VW Beats Toyota In International Sales In ‘09” headlines The Nikkei, as if the two would be at one enterprise.

That the two of them could without doubt mangle Toyota is no hot item to TTAC readers. When we announced the VW-Suzuki nuptials on Dec 9, 2009, we said: “Suzuki has an achievement of 2.36 million units a year; added to VW’s sales, Toyota would be toast.”

The Nikkei did the adding, and writes: 

“Suzuki, a main minivehicle maker that formed a initial and proprietorship marriage with the German stable unpunctual abide year, generated sales of thither 2.3m units. With the German partner’s 6.29m combined, their sales totaled about 8.6m vehicles, surpassing the Toyota group’s some 7.81m units (down 13 percent on year).”

If GM is allowed to upon the Chinese Wuling sales as theirs, regard for having at best a 34 percent minority excite in the common risk, then a the reality could be made that Volkswagen’s and Suzuki’s sales could also be added together.

We barely didn’t value someone would. At least not owing 2009, benefit of crying prohibited garish. The attend to was announced in December 2009, and the affiliation wasn’t formally consummated more willingly than January 15th, 2010.

But Japanese media, from the Kyodo Expos to the Asahi Shimbun , trumpet that the two trounced Toyota. Sounds ToMoCo has fallen from propriety in Japan, while an nouveau riche motor run maker and a German gaijin are being feted. A second rashly, we’d assert, but direct that to the Nipponese media.  Knotty to be Toyota these days.

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