Toyota Motor Corp. stated Thursday its world manufacturing for October fell 0.8 % from a 12 months earlier to 893,164 items, down for a ninth consecutive month after an 8-percent fall in September.
Toyota’s abroad manufacturing tumbled 4.9 % to 587,105 items, the automaker stated.
In the meantime, its output in Japan, which accounts for a few third of Toyota’s worldwide manufacturing, rose 8.3 % to 306,059 items, bouncing again from the identical interval final 12 months when an accident at a elements provider’s facility led to a partial manufacturing halt at a number of crops.
The Japanese automaker additionally logged its first rise in 5 months for world gross sales, which climbed 1.4 % to 903,103 items, a file excessive for the month, because the determine in Japan rose 7.1 % as a result of some automobile deliveries scheduled for September had been delayed to October resulting from a storm.
Abroad gross sales for the month inched up 0.4 % to a file 759,555 items, helped by a sturdy efficiency in India, Toyota stated. ■
