Original title: car rim | Toyota won the champion of half-journey sales for the first time in 6 years since its global sales reached 4.16 million in the first half of the year Source: QQ.com

According to the Japan Today website, Toyota released data showing that from January to June this year, Toyota sold 4.16 million vehicles worldwide, thus winning the top spot in global car sales. This is also the first time in six years that Toyota has become the semi-annual global car sales champion.

Statistics show that Toyota's sales fell 21.6% in the first half of this year compared with the same period last year, affected by the slowdown in demand caused by the novel coronavirus pandemic.

However, this index still exceeded Volkswagen's 3.89 million vehicles, whose sales fell 27.4% from the same period last year, mainly due to a series of blockade measures adopted by many European countries to curb the spread of novel coronavirus. In addition, demand in the Chinese market was weak during the epidemic.

In the first half of this year, joint sales of Nissan, Renault and Mitsubishi reached 3.45 million vehicles, down 33.7% from a year earlier and ranking third for the second year in a row. It is worth mentioning that sales of these alliances have fallen sharply in the US and European markets.

Toyota produced 3.31 million vehicles worldwide in the first half of 2020, down 28.6 per cent from the previous year.

The company's global sales fell 16 per cent to 706555 vehicles in June from a year earlier, an improvement from 31.8 per cent last month, thanks in part to strong sales in China.

In June, Toyota's global production fell 24 per cent from a year earlier to 588816 vehicles as global factory production gradually recovered, suffering its sixth consecutive monthly decline but narrowing from a record 54.4 per cent decline in May.

The company's overseas production fell 11.6 per cent to 428909 vehicles in June and domestic production fell 44.8 per cent to 159907 vehicles.

The carmaker suspended production at all its factories in Japan for four days because of weak demand.

Toyota said it was "on an upward trend" in global sales and expected to return to year-on-year levels in early 2021.

Due to weak demand during the novel coronavirus pandemic, domestic car production by Japan's eight major carmakers fell 36.4 per cent to 490877 vehicles in June from a year earlier, but a "recovery" from the 61.8 per cent decline in May.

The total overseas production of the eight companies also fell 19.8 per cent to 1.17 million vehicles in the month, a sharp decline from the 61.7 per cent decline last month.