{"id":16234,"date":"2025-11-27T07:24:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T05:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/toyota-october-output-grows-for-fifth-straight-month-on-strong-us-demand\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:31:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:31:29","slug":"toyota-october-output-grows-for-fifth-straight-month-on-strong-us-demand","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/toyota-october-output-grows-for-fifth-straight-month-on-strong-us-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyota October output grows for fifth straight month on strong US demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Global output climbed 4% to 926 987 cars from a year earlier, while worldwide sales advanced 2% to 922 087 vehicles, marking a tenth consecutive monthly gain, according to data released by the Japanese automaker.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">In the US, Toyota&#8217;s top market, production surged 26% for the month, marking its fifth straight double-digit increase as hybrid demand stayed robust and output recovered from last year&#8217;s production stoppage of two models.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Output in Japan rose 7%, but sales fell 4%. Toyota did not disclose a reason for the decline. In China, production slipped 6% and sales dropped 7%, hit by the end of subsidy programmes in some regions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">For the first 10 months of the year, Toyota sold 8.7 million vehicles, with hybrids accounting for 42% of the total and battery electric models making up just under 2%.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16235,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-16234","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Toyota Motor said on Thursday its global production rose for a fifth consecutive month in October, lifted by strong United States (US) demand for hybrid vehicles that offset weaker sales in Japan and China","published_date":"2025-11-27 00:00:00","news_description":"Toyota Motor said on Thursday its global production rose for a fifth consecutive month in October, lifted by strong United States (US) demand for hybrid vehicles that offset weaker sales in Japan and China","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/16234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/16234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20132,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/16234\/revisions\/20132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=16234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}