Toyota’s sales advanced in October as U.S. demand helped make up for a downturn in China and Japan, showing resilience in the face of tariffs thanks to strong demand for the best-selling RAV4 compact crossover and other vehicles.
Global sales, including at its Daihatsu and Hino units, climbed 3% from a year earlier to 1 million units — an October record — the company said Thursday. Sales of Toyota and Lexus vehicles climbed 12% in the U.S., though they fell 6.6% in China and 4.2% in Japan.
The figures show that Japan’s biggest company is increasingly counting on the North American market despite President Donald Trump’s tariffs on cars and car parts imported to the U.S.