On the campaign trail, both Obama and Biden continue to perpetuate the lie that GM is the world's largest auto maker. The clueless Biden even goes so far as to claim that GM is the world's largest company.
Here's the facts.
GM briefly held the top spot over Toyota because Toyota sales were hurt in two ways. First there was the "acceleration pedal" recall. This really tarnished Toyota's quality image and, as a result, impacted sales. Secondly, there was the Tsunami that severely hampered Toyota's manufacturing output. But, as reported in May, Toyota is now back on top.
Biden and Obama both have to know that GM didn't become #1 because of increased sales. It's just illogical to think that their sales increased after having dumped Humvee, Saab and Volvo and shutdown Saturn and Pontiac. But, politically for them, they must think they can keep telling the lie and no one will call them on it, and from the looks of things, no one in the mainstream media has.
References:
Toyota back, passes GM as world's largest automaker: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2012/05/toyota-retakes-worlds-largest-automaker-status-from-gm/1#.UDZl6qNT8uc
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These days, Obama and his grant to the business of auto carriers is one of the hot topics and undoubtedly interested to read.
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