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Study: Toyota, Ford set to pass GM in market share, production

 
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The two carmakers are prepping to pass the one-time giant on separate fronts

The two carmakers are prepping to pass the one-time giant on separate fronts

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As General Motors peers over the brink of the abyss into a future that very likely holds a bankruptcy, the hits just keep coming. Today industry forecasters revealed that Toyota will pass GM in U.S. market share by 2010 at current rates, while Ford will push past the General in North American production by the end of 2009.

The double whammy means GM will have to struggle even harder not just to recover what it's lost but to maintain what it has. As things sit, IHS Global Insight puts GM's U.S. market share at 19.2%, down 2.7%, while Toyota's is down just 0.3% to 16.1%, according to an Automotive News report. That means Toyota saw a relative rise in share compared to GM even as it too lost sales.

Another year of that trend could have the two carmakers swapping places, according to the data, says IHS.

Ford, on the other hand, is still a ways back from GM in sales but is already set to exceed GM's North American output by the end of the year. An estimated 1.9 million Blue Oval-built vehicles will roll out of factories in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico this year. GM will only turn out about 1.7 million vehicles by IHS's count.

Chrysler will all to a distant fifth place in North American production, with Honda finishing in third and Toyota in fourth.

Last year the battle for global sales leader between GM and Toyota was intense, and Volkswagen has also thrown its hat in the ring, with a plan to topple both in the near future. The fight for the drastically downsized U.S. market may soon take a back seat to the global struggle as carmakers form a new, post-crunch hierarchy.



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  1. By  Borretsch Öl Posted: 1/10/2010 10:04pm PST

    Quality wins, and it takes long term planning to get quality. American business is focused on the next quarterly statement and in maximizing immediate profits for the Rich People. Well, they'll still be rich, but the country is down the tubes and the little peons have to go down, too.
    The US is not a country. It's just a place for The Rich People to make money - except when they want us to fight a war for them, then it's all flags flying, yellow ribbons fluttering and bullcrud knee deep.
     
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