- The Volkswagen Group sold 9.5 million vehicles worldwide in 2013 (not including MAN and Scania heavyweights), which represents an increase of 4.7% compared to 2012.

- The German group, which included both general brands (Volkswagen, Seat, Skoda) and Premium (Audi, Porsche, Bentley, Lamborghini, Bugatti) remained the third largest manufacturer last year, behind the Japanese Toyota group and American General-Motors group.

- With the exception of Skoda (-2% to 0.92 million units), all the group's brands contributed to the general growth: Volkswagen (+3.4% to 5.93 million units), Audi (+8.3% to 1.58 million units), Seat (+10.6% to 0.35 million units), Porsche (15% to 0.16 million units). Concerning the Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles division is has stayed stable (+0.3%).

- The Volkswagen Group has performed well in Europe (-0.9% in a global market down by -1.9%), but has acquired most of its growth in Asia, where it sold 3.64 million vehicles (+14. 7% compared to 2012), of which 3.27 million in China (+16.4%), in China the group has a market share of 17%.

- The German group has seen its sales fall by 12.6% in Brazil and grow by 2.6% in the United States, two major countries for the group that has been present there since the early 50s.

  

- The Toyota group (including Toyota, Lexus, Scion, Daihatsu and Hino brands) remained the world leader in terms of sales in 2013 with 9.98 million vehicles sold (PCs + LUVs), up 2% compared to 2012.

- Driven by the growth of global sales across all brands and all countries (+4% in 2013), the Japanese carmaker expects to exceed 10 million units in 2014, a performance that has never been achieved by any manufacturer since the beginning of the automobile industry.

- In 2013, the Toyota group overtook its U.S. rival General Motors (9.7 million vehicles sold) and its German rival Volkswagen (9.5 million). In 2013, Toyota saw its sales increase by 7% in the United States (2.24 million units), 9% in China (917 000 units) and 1% in Europe (848 000 units) . However, it decreased by 5% in Japan to 2.30 million units.

- Toyota lost its place as world leader in 2011 to the benefit of General Motors, because of the earthquake and tsunami on March the 11 that same year in the northeast of Japan, which seriously affected the production line for several months, but the Japanese group recovered in 2012. It had previously taken the lead for the first time in 2008 at the expense of General Motors that had previously monopolized the place of world leader for over 70 years.