General Motors’ lead in terms of sales volume in the US market was interrupted last year by Toyota Group, which registered around 114,000 more units than the local firm. Now, The North American giant reclaims the leadership it has held since 1931When this automobile overtook Ford.
In the fiscal year that just ended, the Detroit-based company sold 2.27 million vehicles, representing 2.5% increase In a year-over-year comparison, while only in the last month of the year, General Motors Its registration increased by 41.4%up to 623,261 units.
By brands, Chevrolet is the one that made the most sales of the entire group in 2022 with 1.5 million units and a growth of 5.6%. Furthermore, it registered 413,560 sales in December, up 43.3%. Then there’s GMC, which sold 517,649 units last year, up 7.3%, and the monthly count sold 143,645 units, up 42.3%.
Cadillac, for its part, delivered 134,726 units last year, up 13.9%, while its December sales rose 74.8% to 39,135 units. Buick was the only one to submit failures in both the year and the month. It delivered some 103,519 units, down 42.4% from last year, and 26,921 vehicles, down 6.5% in December.
For its part, the Toyota Group has registered 2.1 million vehicles in this market in 2022, which means decrease of 9.6% If compared to 2.3 million units sold in 2021, in contrast, the Japanese company delivered 180,147 units in the month of December. 3.5% increase If compared with the figures for the same month last year.
Toyota brand registered sales in the last month of the year 160,039 unitsWhich represents an increase of 6.6%, whereas, for the full year, it accounted for more than 1.8 million vehicles, which is an 8.8% decrease compared to 2021.
For its part, the Lexus brand registered sales of 20,108 vehicles in December, 16.4% lessWhile in full 2022 it registered 258,704 units, which is 15% less.
