Toyota Group to remain world's leading carmaker in first half of 2024
- In a global market up 6% in the first 6 months of 2024 compared to the first 6 months of 2023, the ranking of the world's top 15 car carmakers has changed little.
- The Toyota group remains the world's leading car carmaker, with 5,131,198 vehicles produced over the period, but this volume is down 8.8% compared to the previous period, a drop attributable to the interruption of Daihatsu production for several weeks, following a fraud in homologation tests that cost the brand's CEO his job.
- The Volkswagen group remains the world's second largest carmaker, with 4,318,100 vehicles produced, which represents a decrease of 0.4%. The Hyundai-Kia group, with 3,547,262 vehicles produced, consolidates its third place despite a slight drop in its production volume (-0.6%), more widely ahead of the Stellantis group, which is down significantly (-7%) but which remains the fourth largest carmaker in the world, with 3,205,227 vehicles produced. The GM group (-5.6%) maintains its fifth place, with 2,450,599 vehicles produced, ahead of the Nissan group (2,216,666 vehicles produced; -2.6%), the Ford group (2,048,318 vehicles produced; -0.2%) and the Honda group (1,892,809 vehicles produced; -3.5%).
- These top eight carmakers are showing more or less significant declines and if the global automobile market is increasing as a whole, it is mainly thanks to the strong increase in the production volume of Chinese carmakers: +30.9% for BYD which is in ninth position (1,626,195 vehicles produced) and this year supplants Suzuki, +24.6% for Geely (1,375,390 units) which this year supplants BMW and Mercedes; +52.6% for Chery (1,031,235 units) which this year supplants Changan and Tesla. This ranking includes the models produced with the JVs in China in the production of non-Chinese carmakers (example: VWs produced with SAIC are counted at VW).