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Toyota Is No. 1

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Toyota Is No. 1

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It happened again. Toyota was the number-one car company in the world in 2022. It sold 10.5 million cars across several brands, which include Toyota and Lexus. In doing so, it bested Volkswagen, which sold 8.3 million. VW’s several brands include Audi and Porsche. (Click here for cars that have been completely redesigned for 2023.)
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Part of Toyota’s success is the growth of sales in America. Sixty years ago, the U.S. market was dominated by Chrysler, Ford and General Motors. Toyota today sells more cars in the United States than Ford does in many months.
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Toyota’s rise is also related to low costs, which barely exist anymore. Toyota had a huge worker pay advantage over Detroit because of the UAW. Today, Toyota has plants in several places in the United States, and it actually imports very little from Japan.
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Toyota was accused of stealing designs from American manufacturers. If it did copy any designs, it did so well in terms of better quality that it took decades for U.S. car companies to catch Toyota in most quality surveys.
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Toyota is at a crossroads. Its management has gone slow into the electric car market, assuming the hybrids will do better. There is a danger to that strategy if consumer preference changes. However, if the company is right, global manufacturers will have spent tens of billions of dollars on a market in which electric vehicles are the only option.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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