Toyota retains crown as world's best-selling automaker in Jan-June

Nissan Motor Co reported its first year-on-year global sales growth in four years with 2.20 million vehicles, up 21.5 percent.

That is a pleasant surprise.

@socrateos, why the surprise? While it's true the company has been in scandals one after the other, the cars itself are still pretty well loved by customers.

I could care less what happen inside their company as long the product they release aren't bad.

Toyota has a very good reputation over here in Cali.

However, I think they need to hurry up and get on the EV bandwagon. It shouldn't be that hard to upgrade the Prius to a 100% EV.

@1glenn prius is gonna stay as a hybrid flagship. Toyota is gonna call it's ev models under the name bz(beyond zero) with bz4x as flagship ev. Releasing in cali in mid next year.

Toyota is gonna call it's ev models under the name bz(beyond zero) 

Funny. In naval organizations BZ or "Bravo-Zulu" means job well done. At the end of an exercise or a combat operation if all went well the flagship with the task force commander aboard would hoist the flags for the letters B and Z to tell the rest of the ships they did a good job. That morphed into just telling anyone or any team that did a good job "bravo-zulu". To see Toyota adopt this is, to me, kind of funny.