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The top three Chrysler vehicles in Canada

admin — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:03:51 +0000

Chrysler Canada started off 2012 with a bang. Sales in January were up 21.9 per cent and, for the first time in memory, Chrysler was the No. 1 car company in Canada by sales. Market share hit an astonishing 16.9 per cent, well ahead of Ford of Canada at 15.4 per cent. In 2011, Ford was No. 1 in Canada by sales.

“Chrysler has been one of the fastest if not the fastest-growing brand the last two years and this has finally translated into Chrysler becoming the number one seller of light vehicles in Canada in January,” said auto analyst Dennis DesRosiers in a note to clients.

“[Chrysler] displaced Ford from the number one position even though Ford had a pretty good month with sales up 4.6 per cent from a high base a year ago. Last February, they did this and were not able to maintain the position all year but it is a fantastic start to the year for Chrysler.”

Until new models with big sales-volume potential arrive – cars like the 2013 Dodge Dart – Chrysler remains dependent on a small handful of vehicles for the bulk of its sales. About two-thirds of all Chrysler Canada sales came from just three models: the Ram pickup, the Dodge Caravan minivan and the Dodge Journey crossover wagon.

“Chrysler had a great year (in 2011) with light trucks with the Dodge Ram and Dodge Caravan finishing the year as the second- and third best-selling light trucks in Canada and the Dodge Journey was in the seventh position,” says DesRosiers. “Both the Ram and Journey saw sales increase while Caravan fell back just a little.”

Chrysler’s heavy reliance on three models will only start to ease when the Dart and a raft of other Fiat-based models go on sale. The Dart will arrive by the middle of this year, followed next year by a number of other Fiat-based models:

Chrysler brand:

compact car and a replacement for the current 200.
Dodge:

the Dart, a subcompact car and a mid-size car.
Jeep:

subcompact and compact vehicles are coming, along with a replacement for the Liberty SUV and perhaps the debut of a Grand Wagoneer.
Ram:

the Ram pickup will be re-engineered, and small and large vans are coming.

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Chrysler launches luxury model of Ram Truck

admin — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:42:56 +0000

Ram Truck will expand its model lineup by adding the new, top-of-the-line Ram Laramie Limited.

Featuring full-leather seating, piano-black interior components and under-stated exterior badging, Ram Laramie Limited offers a refined luxury alternative to the southwestern-themed Ram Laramie Longhorn edition pickup, according to the vehicle maker.

“Ram trucks are the longest-lasting most durable pickup trucks in Canada…,” said Ed Broadbear, vice president of marketing, Chrysler Canada, in a statement. “Adding the Laramie Limited to our Ram lineup will satisfy the demands of the truck buyer looking for an upscale, refined version of our extremely capable Ram truck.”

The new Ram made its debut at the 2012 Chicago Auto Show.

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2012 Laramie is Ram royalty

admin — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:40:04 +0000

Guts, glory, the tang of diesel fumes, enough torque to tow medium-sized mountains, a step-in height that just about requires you to go on oxygen, a driver’s seat vista that makes you feel like you’re at the wheel of an open-pit mining truck, mass pushing four American-style tons and enough premium-grade leather to re-upholster a herd of Texas cattle – welcome to the Dodge Ram 2500 Laramie Longhorn Crew Cab 4×4.

Oh, and a price tag on the unit driven of $74,310, the ante for a North American pickup truck, a vehicle most associate with scuffed work boots rather than glove-soft Gucci loafers and the high-falutin’ foreign luxury sedans that more often come to mind when you’re talking that kind of coin.

But this is no ordinary member of the triumvirate of ruling North American pickup truck families – Ford, General Motors and Chrysler – which between them accounted for 244,822 of the 263,269 large pickups sold in Canada last year. The 2500 Laramie Longhorn is Ram royalty, only out-ranked by the even more massively steroidal 3500 in the heavy-hauling hierarchy.

And serious haulage is what it’s all about with 79 per cent of buyers citing towing as a major consideration in their purchase, and the test truck was equipped to drag around no less than 10,320 kilograms. Those buyers, incidentally, are 90 per cent male and 50 per cent of heavy-duty models are purchased for work, although the Ram folk claim 100 per cent of them do double duty as fun and family vehicles.

This – or one of its Ford or GM heavy-duty rivals – is the kind of truck you want to be at the wheel of when you’re towing an enclosed trailer full of race-car, tires, tools and gas to some distant track. Not, on the other hand, when you’re trying to squeeze into a mall-sized parking spot.

It’s all very well to talk about driving one of these things for fun, but in reality it isn’t, at least for someone used to manoeuvring something smaller. Real pickup-driving guys and gals probably don’t notice – they just drive – but I’ll admit to finding it a tad intimidating.

More confidence would naturally come with additional time behind the wheel, but initially driving in traffic your awareness of how much space you’re occupying and how that reduces the distance between you and other road users is definitely at a much heightened level.

The test truck topped a lineup that starts with the $31,395 2500 ST and moves up through SLT, Outdoorsman, Lone Star, Big Horn, Power Wagon and Laramie to the $58,845 Laramie Longhorn Crew Cab 4×4.

From across a parking lot, the Ram 2500 doesn’t look much different from a mere Ram 1500 – although the 17-inch alloy wheels actually look a little undersized – but the scale seems to expand until it fills your visual horizon by the time you’re reaching up for the door handle.

Styling is mainly differentiated from Ram 1500s by a bigger grille and higher hood line, and a small-condo-sized four-door Crew Cab roofline that tops out at 1,973 mm, or about the same as a six-foot cowboy wearing a Stetson. Overall length is 6,030 mm or just a tad less than 20 feet, and width a just within the street legal width limit at 2,009 mm. A Texas-tall cowboy, without his hat, could stretch out lengthwise in the box out back.

But he’d be much happier and feel more at home in the leathery-luxury found inside where just about everything on the Ram family comfort and convenience feature list can be found, including Parkview camera and rear sensors, heated seats all round (ventilated and power adjustable up front), power sliding rear window, power pedals, remote start, touch screen display and navigation, plus a high-end audio system and optional rear-seat video system.

All the trappings of a luxury car or sport-ute, but swathed in home-on-the-range, high-grade cowhide. In fact, to quote the label, genuine full-grain Natura Plus leather, each hide bringing unique markings and assuring the owner he has purchased a vehicle that employs the same hand-crafted materials as a horseman’s saddle, and that will age to a one-of-a-kind appearance.

This interior must be the “glory” Ram commercials tout, but the “guts” are definitely found under the hood.

That’s where, for an extra $9,345, you can replace the standard 5.7-litre, 383-hp/400-lb-ft Hemi V-8 with 6.7 litres of Cummins inline-six-cylinder High Output Turbo Diesel. This was boosted to its current output of 350 hp and 800 lb-ft of torque for 2012 in response to a three-way pulling-power arms race with Ford and General Motors. Bragging rights are taken seriously in this segment.

This slogging monster makes its full power at just 3,000 rpm and all of that prodigious torque is available from 1,500 rpm to 2,800 rpm, fed to the wheels through an optional, $1,900 six-speed automatic and a rugged four-wheel-drive system.

This latest generation of Cummins diesels is said to be 50 per cent quieter as well as more emission-efficient and fuel-efficient, although the latter numbers are still likely rather daunting – no ratings are published for heavy-duty trucks. It’s also expected to be long-lived with (best case scenario, of course) an anticipated mileage of 560,000 km before a major overhaul is required.

It may not rev much, but this big six sure pulls, accelerating this massive vehicle with surprising rapidity. But the Hemi V-8 would likely make a better choice for those who drive a Ram 2500 because they want to, while the diesel would obviously be the powerplant for those who drive one because they need to.

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Rare 4X4 pickup given new lease on life

admin — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:30:44 +0000

After 40 years, Brian Beard’s cousin called him to say he wanted to give him back his 1967 Mercury 4X4 pickup.Beard had loved that truck but when he went to university, he had left the rare ¾ ton behind, for his cousin to use on his farm. It received rough use on the farm north of Edmonton, where it worked for a number of years before being parked by a shop for the next three decades in 1979.

Beard had been 18 years old when he “factory ordered” the truck. “In those days, four wheel drives were a very rare commodity,” he recalls. But a neighbour who used a Dodge Power Wagon 4X4 to go hunting year round had introduced Beard to four wheeling when he was 14.

“Every Sunday in the winter, my neighbour went coyote hunting in deep snow through ditches, plowed fields and bush. This was my introduction to the amazing things a four-wheel drive could do. After my first ride, I had to have one.”

When Beard got his driver’s license at the age of 16, he started a small oilfield hauling business after school and on weekends with an old pickup that eventually fell apart. Then in grade 12, he convinced his father that he should buy a brand new truck — a 4X4 — because used 4X4 trucks were usually worn out.

Dealers didn’t stock 4X4s in those days, so, with $500 of hard-earned savings and an agreement with the bank to make payments of $107 a month, he ordered his new Mercury M250. The cost was $4,000, twice as much as a regular ¾ ton pickup.

In Canada, Ford trucks were sold by Ford dealers, and the same trucks, re-badged as Mercury models, were sold by Mercury dealers.

The last Mercury truck was produced in March, 1968. Beard estimates there were only about 125 of the ¾ ton Mercury 4X4s built in the 1967 model year.

He ordered his to be as special and heavy duty as possible with the Custom Cab option, Spicer free-running front hubs, a 352 cubic inch V-8 engine, four speed transmission, two tone paint, cab lights, AM radio and a front bush bar.

The truck was built at the Ford Twin Cities truck plant in April 1967. As the arrival day got closer, young Beard would stop by the rail yard to see if his truck had arrived. One day in early May, it did, on top of a rail car, and just as he had ordered it.

“Wherever I went with my truck, people would remark that it was the prettiest truck they had ever seen. The truck and I went on many adventures.

“But working and going to high school was one thing. Going to university, with the cost of fees and books along with all the studying, made it impossible to keep my truck.”

The young engineering student worked out a plan to give his truck to his cousin to work the farm. When the battered and bruised Mercury 4X4 pickup was finally parked in 1979, it had travelled 69,823 miles.

“Over the years, I spent time at the farm and would always visit my old truck and feel sorry for the way she had ended up,” he says. “I promised that one day I would restore her back to her original beauty.”

But an engineering and project-management career that took him all over the world building pulp and paper mills, mines and refineries got in the way.

Then, in 2009, his cousin Buck called him at his Fraser Valley home east of Vancouver to say he wanted to make the truck new again. “Buck said that he wanted me to have it back the way it came to the farm and I could take her home,” Beard recalls.

Rebuilding the truck to new condition in Alberta took more than two years. Another 1967 Mercury pickup truck had to be purchased to replace the rusted and badly damaged body parts on the original. And the parts could only come from a 1967 Mercury pickup because of its many one-year-only pieces, and a truck in good shape was difficult to find.

Beard’s truck was completely disassembled, the frame sandblasted and painted and the original 352 cubic inch V-8 engine rebuilt, along with all running-gear components. The cab, box and front fenders were sandblasted and repainted the original Holly Green and Wimbledon White. Even the original bush guard was reinstalled after being repaired where it had been twisted and bent from towing tractors out of the mud.

Ivan Perry of Gibbons rebuilt all the mechanical components, engine, transmission, transfer case and front and rear differentials. The bodywork, paint and reassembly was handled by Bev Boudreau of Onoway.

The 1967 Mercury 250 4X4 pickup truck that Beard bought 45 years ago is now a showpiece that is often displayed alongside its garage mate, an equally rare 1966 Mercury 250 4X4 pickup that he bought from a Saskatchewan farmer who was the original owner and had restored it himself.

“Words cannot express the happiness I felt bringing my old truck home and being able to take her to car and truck shows,” Beard says. “It’s wonderful to be able to tell people how rare and special she is.”

The next story will detail Brian Beard’s fabulous Fraser Valley “fire station,” filled with one of the finest vintage fire engine collections in Canada.

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Chrysler, VW Sales Soar 40% in January; GM Sales Fall 6%

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3:40 PM New York – Auto sales in January surged at the fastest pace in nearly four years and Chrysler Group and Volkswagen AG accelerated sales growth at 40% in the month. General Motors was the lone maker to report a decline in sales. Industry sales were the largest since May 2008.

Auto sales in January rose 11% from a year ago and as buyers stepped and Japanese makers faced fewer difficulties in sourcing products from Asia.

Sales in the month accelerated at the fastest pace in the last four years and automakers released plans for auto expansions and Japanese automakers sourced more vehicles from Asia.

Seasonally adjusted annual sales rate in January increased to 14.18 million from 13.56 million in December and from 12.69 million in the month a year ago.

The monthly data are released by the industry research organization Autodata Corp based in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey.

In January, total light vehicle sales increased 11.4% to 913,287 from 819,795 from a year ago period. Passenger car sales in the month gained 19.9% to 468,321 from 390,722 and light truck sales increased 3.7% to 444,966 from 429,073.

For the month Chrysler led the sale with a rise of 44.3%, Mercedes Benz sales soared 23.2% and Nissan sales added 10.4%.

Chrysler Sales Surge 44%, GM Sales Fall 6%

General Motors (GM) sales decreased 6.1% to 167,962 units from 178,896. Sales of light vehicles decreased 11.4% to 99,248 from 112,018 and car sales rose 2.7% to 68,714.

Ford Motor Company (F) sales increased 7.3% to 136,294 units from 126,981 vehicles a year ago. Truck sales in the month increased 9.7% to 94,409 from 86,076.

Sales of passenger cars increased 2.4% to 41,885 units compared to 40,905 a year ago. In January, sales of the Fusion decreased 5.1% to total of 13,614 compared to 14,346 a year ago.

Chrysler LLC sales in the month soared 44.3% to 101,149 from 70,118 vehicles a year ago. Sales of cars surged 136.5% to 28,832 and light truck sales increased 24.8% to 72,317.

Toyota Sales Rise 7.5%

Toyota Motor sales in January rose 7.5% to 124,540 from 115,856 in the same period a year earlier. Sales of the cars increased 19.1% to 73,671 from 61,831 and light trucks decreased 5.8% to 50,869 from 54,025 a year ago.

Honda sales in the month increased 8.8% to 83,009 from 76,269 a year ago. Sales of cars in the month increased 16.3% to 44,818 from 38,546 and sales of the light trucks rose 1.2% to 38,191 compared to 37,723 a year ago.

Nissan Motor Company vehicles sales in the month increased 10.4% to 79,313 from 71,847 a year ago. January cars sales rose 5.8% and sales of the light trucks increased 19.9% from a year ago.

Mitsubishi Motors vehicles January sales decreased 17.6% to 4,711 compared with 5,714 units in the month of last year.

Sales for Mazda surged 68.2% to 23,996 compared to 14,267 in the year ago and Isuzu Motors failed to sell a single vehicle compared to none in the month a year ago.

Daimler Sales Gain 23%, VW Sales Soar 40%

Volkswagen Group of America Inc sales soared 39.5% to 36,709 from 26,311 a year ago. Vehicles branded Audi sales increased 19.7%, Volkswagen surged 47.9% and Bentley sales soared to 43.9%.

Mercedes-Benz USA unit sales in the month gained 23.2% to 21,731 from a year ago. Sale of the Maybach brand was flat at 5 and sales of the Smart branded vehicles surged 38.5% to 496 from 358 a year ago.

BMW of North America Inc sales in the month increased 5.8% to 19,769 compared to a year ago month to 18,693. Rolls Royce sales dropped 18.9% to 30 from 37 a year ago.

Jaguar Land Rover N.A. LLC unit sales increased 30.7% to 4,190 from 3,206 a year ago. Sales of Land Rover soared 41.1% to 3,205 from 2,271.

Porsche Cars N.A. Inc sales in the month gained 6.3% to 2,550 from 2,400 a year ago.

Sales of cars in the month increased 15.1% to 1,557 from 1,353 and sales of the light trucks decreased 5.2% to 993 compared to 1,047 a year ago.

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Auto thefts decrease

admin — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:58:50 +0000

The good news is that the number of auto thefts went down 9.35 percent from 2009 to 2010. The bad news is that owners of 2000 Dodge Ram pickup trucks need to keep a watchful eye on their vehicle since that make is the one thieves target most.

The Michigan Automobile Theft Prevention Authority (ATPA) recently announced decrease and added that since the inception of ATPA in 1986, auto thefts in Michigan have fallen by 62 percent.

”Our success in the battle against auto theft is the direct result of the dedication and efforts of the 110 men and women who are funded by grants provided by the ATPA and are a part of our state’s law enforcement agencies, prosecuting attorney’s offices and statewide community groups,” said Dan Vartanian, Executive Director of the ATPA.

“Thanks also should be directed to our partners in the fight against auto crime: Crime Stoppers, HEAT (Help Eliminate Auto Thefts), and the many investigators around the state who are employed by the insurance industry.”

The ATPA is funded by an annual $1 assessment on each insured non-commercial passenger vehicle, plus interest earned by investing those funds. It is governed by a seven-member board of directors appointed by the Governor, which includes representatives of law enforcement, automobile insurers and consumers of automobile insurance. Each year the board awards grants to law enforcement agencies, prosecutors’ offices and nonprofit community organizations to prevent auto theft, catch auto thieves and put the thieves in jail.

Michigan’s most

stolen vehicles in 2011

1. 2000 Dodge Ram pickup truck

2. 1999 Dodge Ram pickup truck

3. 2002 Dodge Ram pickup truck

4. 1998 Ford pickup truck

5. 1997 Dodge Ram pickup truck

6. 1998 Dodge Ram pickup truck

7. 2003 Dodge Ram pickup truck

8. 1996 Chevrolet pickup truck

9. 1999 Ford pickup truck

10. 1997 Chevrolet pickup truck

Thieves’ favorite choices

Color Month Day

Black November Tuesday

White December Monday

Red October Thursday

Blue September Wednesday

Silver August Friday

Green July Saturday

Gray June Sunday

Maroon May

Gold April

Tan March

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Dodge adds new luxury Laramie Limited spec to Ram pickup line

admin — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:58:16 +0000

Dodge is upping the ante with their Ram Truck pickup lineup by adding a new luxury model: the Ram Laramie Limited.

“The Ram Truck brand’s greatest strengths are our commitment to listen to customers and to understand what motivates them,” said Fred Diaz, President and CEO, Ram Truck Brand. “We’ve successfully added Ram truck models designed for outdoorsmen, tradesmen, first-time buyers and ranchers. Laramie Limited is designed to meet the high expectations of affluent pickup truck buyers looking to combine capability with elegance.”

The Ram Laramie Limited comes with many premium features such as an interior filled with plenty of leather, piano-gloss black interior trim and much more. On the outside, the new Ram Laramie Limited adopts a “street truck” look, versus the traditional workhorse looks of the standard Ram—think Ford F150 Platinum and King Ranch editions.

The Ram Laramie Limited will be available in 1500 (1/2 ton), 2500 HD (3/4 ton), and 3500 HD single- and dual-rear-wheel (1-ton) form. They can also be found with Crew Cab and Mega Cab configurations, on both short- and long-wheel base models.

Prices have yet to be announced, but Chrysler said that the Ram Laramie Limited will launch in the second quarter of 2012.

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Chrysler Group Builds 1 Millionth Pentastar V6 after 18 Months

admin — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:38:47 +0000

Only 18 months after the Chrysler Group began production of its new Pentastar V6 at its Trenton Engine Assembly Plant in Michigan, the company hit its first important milestone with the manufacturing of the one-millionth unit. The V6 is also produced at Chrysler’s plant in Saltillo, Mexico.

The Detroit firm’s all-aluminum 3.6-liter V6 engine made its debut on the 2010 Jeep Grand Cherokee but has since found its way under the hood of many more models.

These include the Chrysler 200, 300 and Town and Country, plus the Dodge Avenger, Challenger, Charger, Durango, Journey and Caravan, and more recently the 2012 Jeep Wrangler.

“To build one million of anything, and in an impressively short amount of time, is a significant achievement. But to do it with such a high degree of quality is a testament to our skilled and dedicated workforce at both Trenton South and Saltillo engine plants,” said Brian Harlow, head of Chrysler’s Powertrain Manufacturing division.

Over the past year and a half, the 3.6-liter unit has replaced six legacy V6 engines ranging from 2.7-liter up to 4.0-liters in the Chrysler Group LLC product portfolio. It is offered with the Chrysler Group’s new 8-speed automatic transmission.

Compared to its predecessors, it’s not only more powerful and fuel efficient but also less complicated in its construction as the engine components were reduced from 189 parts to just 32.

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Serra Automotive buys Genesee Valley Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep-Ram

admin — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:19:03 +0000

Serra Automotive has added another dealership to its network with the purchase of Genesee Valley Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep-Ram in Flint Township.

The renamed Al Serra Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep-Ram will open at the Al Serra Auto Plaza in Grand Blanc and be housed in the building formerly used for Al Serra Cadillac.

“This is great news for our customers and all of Genesee County,” Serra Automotive President Joe Serra said in a statement. “With the addition of Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram, the Al Serra Auto Plaza literally will be a convenient one-stop shop for car buyers.”

In April, the company will begin construction on a new Cadillac showroom and a service and parts department. Both projects are scheduled to be completed by the end of 2012.

The Serra Automotive network comprises 35 franchises in five states.

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GM once again leads the world in auto sales

admin — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:20:21 +0000

General Motors and its partners sold 9 million vehicles around the globe in 2011, the company announced Thursday, allowing it to reclaim the title of world’s top-selling automaker.Toyota had snatched the crown from General Motors in 2008, as the American automaker nearly crumbled under the weight of its debts and as U.S. auto sales plummeted with the recession.

The 2011 sales figure reflects the dramatic turnaround that began when the company filed for bankruptcy less than three years ago and, according to analysts, stems from the popularity of its latest vehicles.

GM has “demonstrated the ability to introduce competitive products and do it consistently,” said Jeremy Anwyl of the automotive Web site Edmunds.com.

Overall, the U.S. auto industry, which had seemed to be on the brink of collapse at the onset of the recession, has strengthened.

In the darkest days, as the country slipped into economic crisis, even President-elect Barack Obama reportedly asked his advisers on the U.S. auto industry, “Why can’t they make a Corolla?” according to a book by Steve Rattner, Obama’s former auto czar.

But since their government rescues, General Motors and Chrysler have both far exceeded analysts’ expectations for profit and sales. And at Ford, U.S. sales exceeded 2 million in 2011 for the first year since 2007.

GM has even come up with an answer to the Corolla challenge. Today, the company’s best-selling vehicle globally is the Cruze, a compact car introduced last year that has competed well against Toyota’s stalwart.

“We set out to build a better car than the Corolla, and we did,” said James Cain, a GM spokesman. “The Chevy Cruze was the best-selling compact car in the U.S. last year.”

Even with GM’s sales success, however, the United States has still not been fully repaid the $50 billion it invested directly into the company to rescue it.

So far, GM has returned $23 billion, and the government still owns about one-third of the company’s common stock. For the government to recover its full $50 billion investment, its General Motors stock would have to rise to about $54 per share. It is currently selling for about $25.

This year’s GM sales results also underscore the growing importance of the Chinese market.

Of its 9 million in global sales, GM and its joint ventures sold a record 2,547,171 vehicles in China in 2011.

The company’s next-best-selling car, after the Cruze, is one that most Americans likely have never heard of: the Sunshine. An inexpensive and spare-looking minivan, the Sunshine is sold in China and manufactured by a joint-venture company called SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile.

Because a significant share of GM’s 9 million in global sales came from its Chinese joint ventures and not wholly owned subsidiaries, some analysts have questioned how meaningful the figure is.

But GM also benefited this year because of a spate of misfortunes for Toyota.

Toyota hasn’t reported full-year results, but its sales have been hampered by the earthquake in Japan and floods in Thailand. Company officials have estimated that 2011 sales decreased to 7.9 million.

Volkswagen says it sold a record 8.2 million cars and light trucks last year, a 14 percent rise over 2010. Through Porsche and another company in which Volkswagen owns a more than 50 percent stake, the German automaker sold 240,000 more, an official said.

Volkswagen has also announced its intention to become the world’s largest automaker by 2018.

“It’s going to be harder for [GM] to claim the top spot in 2012,” Anwyl said. “This year, they had a tail wind.”

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Chrysler launches luxury model of Ram Truck

2012 Laramie is Ram royalty

Rare 4X4 pickup given new lease on life

Chrysler, VW Sales Soar 40% in January; GM Sales Fall 6%

Auto thefts decrease

Dodge adds new luxury Laramie Limited spec to Ram pickup line

Chrysler Group Builds 1 Millionth Pentastar V6 after 18 Months

Serra Automotive buys Genesee Valley Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep-Ram

GM once again leads the world in auto sales