TOKYO, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) — Toyota Motor Corp. mentioned Wednesday it logged file international manufacturing and gross sales figures for October on strong demand in North America and Europe.
The Japanese automaker’s international automobile manufacturing in October got here to 900,285 items, up 16.7 % from a 12 months earlier, with its manufacturing exterior of Japan growing 8.7 % to 617,590 automobiles, an all-time excessive for a single month, the corporate mentioned.
Domestic manufacturing climbed 39.2 % to 282,695 items, regardless of a brief manufacturing halt in Japan for 10 days resulting from an explosion at a elements provider’s manufacturing unit.
Meanwhile, Toyota’s international gross sales within the month went up 7.0 % from a 12 months earlier than to 890,241 automobiles, together with a 5.2 % progress in gross sales exterior of Japan to 756,245 items, additionally a file excessive for the month.
Sales of hybrid automobiles had been notably robust in North America and Europe, Toyota mentioned.