If you’re weren’t expecting Toyota’s response to Ford’s claims that the Focus was the best-selling nameplate in 2013 with 1,097,618 deliveries, then you obviously haven’t been following the pissing contest between two of the world’s largest automakers – the same thing happened last October.
Toyota issued a statement in which it says, the Corolla achieved global sales of 1.22 million units in 2013, “according to the company’s internal data based on individual vehicle sales reporting from its distributors”.
Since Ford sourced its numbers through an analysis of Polk new vehicle registration data from IHS Automotive “which captures 96 percent of global new vehicle volumes”, Toyota did that too and it came out in front again with global registrations of 1,098,524 million units.
Toyota provided a few more details on which cars these numbers include:
“This figure includes Corolla sedan and other variations in name such as Corolla Axio, Corolla Altis and Corolla EX 4-door sedans,” said Toyota in a statement. “The subscripts “Axio” “Altis” and “EX” denote trim levels of the 4-door Corolla sedan sold in various global regions, including Japan. Also included are the Corolla-badged Fielder and Rumion 5-door wagons.
“Based on Toyota’s analysis, various competitive claims based on “single nameplate” registrations may have excluded data for Corolla Axio, Corolla Altis, Corolla EX, Corolla Fielder and Corolla Rumion, which are identified and marketed as Corolla sedans and wagons,” said Toyota.
By John Halas
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