BEST MANUFACTURER
TOYOTA
In some dark and stupid corners of the internet, you will find people calling Toyota
an outdated legacy car maker, daft in being slow to full electrification, foolish to pursue hydrogen avenues and having left its best days behind it. (Now check out my Tesla referral code!) It won’t come as a surprise to the sensible, though, that Toyota at the start of May recorded full-year operating profits of ¥5.35 trillion (£26 billion) – the first time ever that a Japanese company had banked more than ¥5tn. In 2023, it sold more than 10 million cars worldwide for the first time. Couldn’t we all do with a crisis like that?