For the first time since the Great Depression, General Motors cannot call itself the world's largest automaker. Its sales fell behind Toyota in 2008, a year when GM celebrated its 100th anniversary and narrowly avoided a bankruptcy filing amid a significant downturn in the economy. ...more

January 22, 2009

Japan's Toyota Motor Corp. sold more cars and trucks last year than General Motors Corp., stripping the Detroit automaker of the No. 1 global sales crown. But it's a victory made hollow by the overall industry's continued struggle for viability amid one of its worst sales declines ever. ...more

January 21, 2009

November's U.S. vehicle sales at General Motors and Chrysler plunged more than 40 percent, and Ford's sales dropped 31 percent, crushing hopes that the industrywide drop in vehicle demand might be easing as the U.S. automakers prepare to state their second case for a federal bailout. ...more

December 3, 2008

General Motors, Ford, Toyota and other automakers said Friday that their U.S. sales fell by double-digits in July as they struggled to keep up with consumers' growing demand for smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles. ...more

August 2, 2008

General Motors Corp., pummeled by falling U.S. sales and high gas prices, lost the global sales lead to Toyota Motor Corp. in the first half of this year, but the churning market makes it difficult to predict which automaker will end the year on top. ...more

July 24, 2008

All major automakers except for General Motors Corp. saw their U.S. sales drop in January to start what industry analysts have predicted will be the worst auto sales year in the United States in more than a decade. ...more

February 2, 2008