GM's sales of the world's largest

American auto giants, General Motors Co. (GM), which was bankrupt in 2009,
again rule the automotive sales or as world-selling carmaker in 2011

GM claims that it has managed to sell as many as 9.026 million vehicles globally last year,
up 7.6 percent from 2010.

Automakers based in Detroit is back to the top as rival Japanese auto giant that could fester in the first position, namely Toyota Motor Corp.. Japanese automakers had a chance to go down rankings by an earthquake in Japan and Thailand floods that inhibit its production in 2011.



Meanwhile, a German automotive company, Volkswagen AG, is also pursuing to become the world's largest automaker. However, at the end of 2011 could only occupy the second position with 8.16 million units of vehicles sold.

Toyota alone will publish the final results for 2011 sales by the end of January 2012. However, the manufacturer's projected sales will reach 7.9 million in 2011, down about six percent from a year earlier.

Indeed, global car sales ranking is not without controversy. This ranking is mostly the company's right to 'brag', but there is a debate that runs long and strong on the calculation of these vehicles sold.

Toyota Sales Down
As is known, throughout 2011, Toyota's sales worldwide - including subsidiaries Daihatsu Motor Co. and Hino Motors Ltd. - dimemicu affected the auto parts shortages and declining vehicle production last year.

However, at this time, Toyota is able to re-produce, so it will increase the capacity of sales in emerging markets like Brazil and China. Nevertheless, analysts say that Toyota still faces competition from its rivals.

"Toyota's biggest problem is that without a natural disaster, sales are not really growing," said JP Morgan analyst Otomotof, Kohei Takahashi, as quoted from page VIVAnews.com Reuters on Saturday, January 21, 2012.

"These ratings are not very important, but they need a convincing strategy to increase their sales," he added.

According to Takahashi, Toyota is behind rivals such as Nissan to launch small car for emerging markets.

He claimed that Toyota's sales lagging far from rivals such as Nissan and Hyundai Motor Co., because the relatively slow penetration into emerging markets.

Takahashi said, in an effort to catch up with it, Toyota has added factories in Brazil, China, Thailand, and elsewhere, aim to be able to sell half of its products in emerging markets in 2015, up from about 40 percent today.