Toyota Motor output slips for fourth straight month in February as model revamp bites

Tokyo: Toyota Motor said on Monday global production fell for a fourth successive month in February, dragged down by weaker output in Canada as the automaker changed production from ‌the old ⁠to ⁠the new RAV4 sport utility vehicle.

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* Global ​vehicle production shrank 3.9% from the same month a ​year earlier to 749,673 vehicles. Toyota said overall demand was strong but output ​fell as it switched ⁠production from ‌the old to the ​new RAV4 ​sport utility vehicle, one ⁠of its most popular models.


* Output dropped ​46.2% in Canada, 11.5% in ​China, 2.6% in Japan and 20.4% in the Middle East. It rose 3.4% in the U.S. and 3.9% in Europe.

* Global sales declined 3.3% ‌to 737,134 vehicles.

* Overseas sales fell 2.2%, pulled down by ​a 13.9% ​drop in China ⁠and an 8.3% decrease in Japan. Sales in the U.S. grew 3.2%.

* Production and sales figures include its luxury Lexus brand.

* Toyota was the world's top-selling automaker for a sixth consecutive year in 2025, Reuters calculations showed.