Toyota’s sales jumped 22% in 2012 compared with a rise of 2.9% for GM, according to report from the Associated Press.
The trail of bad news for Toyota included a recall of some 16 million vehicles, beginning in 2010, for a sticking accelerator issue. But even that did not keep the company from being the top seller that year.
GM’s 2012 sales narrowly beat third-place carmaker Volkswagen, which sold 9.1 million vehicles.
Shares of Toyota are trading up about 0.4% at $96.48 in the first half-hour of trading today, in a 52-week range of $67.27 to $97.55. Shares of GM are down 1.5% at $29.92 in a 52-week range of $18.72 to $30.60.
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