Nissan blows by Honda in global automotive sales

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01-30-2011 10:33 AM

pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/honda/" rel="tag"Honda/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/nissan/" rel="tag"Nissan/a/pa href="http://www.thedetroitbureau.com/2011/01/nissan-surges-past-honda/"img alt="Nissan Badge" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2011/01/nissan-logo-370z.jpg" style="border-width:1px;border-style:solid;margin:4px 0px;width:630px;height:418px"/abrbrIn the U.S., the pecking order among Japanese automakers looks like this: Way out in front is a href="http://autoblog.com/make/toyota/"Toyota/a, followed by a href="http://autoblog.com/make/honda/"Honda/a and a href="http://autoblog.com/make/nissan/"Nissan/a respectively. On a global scale, however, Nissan has finally leapfrogged Honda for second banana status. a href="http://www.torquenews.com/108/nissan-passed-honda-total-global-sales"Torque News reports/a that Nissan's global sales soared 21 percent in 2010 due in part to exploding business in China. All told, Nissan moved 4.08 million units during the calendar year.brbrHonda also saw increased sales, but it managed only a five percent gain. That's 3.56 million vehicles sold, or about 500,000 fewer units than its rival. 2010 was a very solid year for Nissan, as well its alliance partner Renault, which also fared very well. Together the two automakers combined to sell 7.3 million cars and trucks. That's more than a href="http://autoblog.com/make/ford/"Ford/a or a href="http://autoblog.com/make/vw/"Volkswagen/a, though Renault-Nissan sales aren't officially counted together when the final rankings are tabulated at the end of the year. Toyota led all automaker sales for the year, followed by a href="http://autoblog.com/make/gm/"General Motors/a and VW.brbr[Source: a href="http://www.thedetroitbureau.com/2011/01/nissan-surges-past-honda/"The Detroit Bureau/a]p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/01/30/nissan-blows-by-honda-in-global-automotive-sales/"Nissan blows by Honda in global automotive sales/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:33:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear:both;padding:8px 0 0 0;height:2px;font-size:1px;border:0;margin:0;padding:0"/h6a href="http://www.thedetroitbureau.com/2011/01/nissan-surges-past-honda/"Read/a*|*a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/01/30/nissan-blows-by-honda-in-global-automotive-sales/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/a*|*a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/19820633/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/a*|*a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/01/30/nissan-blows-by-honda-in-global-automotive-sales/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/apiframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/jsicb7kgbrq2r9mumuej8u6iqc/468/60#http%3A%2F%2Fwww.autoblog.com%2F2011%2F01%2F30% 2Fnissan-blows-by-honda-in-global-automotive-sales%2F" width="100%" height="60" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"/iframe/pdiva href="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=Q7Eif3ux26Q:FuSlgjlIuQo:wF9xT3WuBAs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=Q7Eif3ux26Q:FuSlgjlIuQo:wF9xT3WuBAs" border="0"/a a href="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=Q7Eif3ux26Q:FuSlgjlIuQo:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=Q7Eif3ux26Q:FuSlgjlIuQo:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/a/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/Q7Eif3ux26Q" height="1" width="1"

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