Apple Could Sink $1B Into Softbank's Mega Tech FundTis the season when “global sales crowns” are passed-out to automakers. Toyota reports according to the Japanese system, which provides two data points: “Production,” and “sales.” Toyota’s production number represents the finished cars that left the factory. Toyota’s sales number “generally reflects final sales to end-users,” its Tokyo-based spokesperson Kayo Doi confirmed to me today. It would be a crime on car statistics to conflate Volkswagen’s “deliveries” with Toyota’s “sales.” Please don’t. At least in Europe, these data have become victim of rampant “self-registrations.” In the U.S., ‘sales reporting abuses” have made car sales statistics suspect.

Source: Forbes January 11, 2017 08:37 UTC