December sales of Toyota (TM) cars and light trucks fell 1.7% to 224,399 in the US.

Numbers for the entire year were up 2.7% to 2.62 million.

According to the AP Toyota has overtaken Ford (F) to become the No. 2 automaker by U.S. sales in 2007, breaking Ford’s 75-year lock on the position.

Douglas A. McIntyre