Toyota remains top automaker in first half global sales at 4.91 million vehicles, outpaces GM

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FILE - In this Wednesday, May 8, 2013 file photo, school boys look at Toyota Lexus LS600hL displayed at Toyota Motor Corp.\'s showroom Toyota Mega Web in Tokyo. Toyota shrugged off China sales woes to stay the world\'s top selling automaker for the first half of this year, outpacing U.S. rival General Motors Co., which boasted such bragging rights for seven decades until 2008. The Japanese automaker sold 4.91 million cars and trucks around the world for the January-June period, down 1.2 percent from the previous year, according to numbers it released Friday, July 26. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye, File)

TOKYO – Toyota shrugged off China sales woes to stay the world’s top selling automaker for the first half of this year, outpacing General Motors Co.

Toyota Motor Corp. said Friday it sold 4.91 million cars and trucks around the world for the January-June period, down 1.2 per cent from the previous year.

GM said earlier this month it sold 4.85 million vehicles worldwide in the six months, growing almost 4 per cent as it gained U.S. sales faster than Toyota.

Toyota’s sales in China were hurt by anti-Japanese sentiment that flared last year over a territorial dispute, setting off boycotts and riots.

But the Japanese automaker stayed ahead of GM in other regions.

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