Toyota's Global Sales Drop for Eighth Consecutive Month in September

05:26 AM EDT, 10/29/2026 (MT Newswires) -- Toyota Motor's (TM) September global sales fell 2.9% from a year ago to 921,847 units, bringing the April-to-September decline to 4.6%, the steepest since the corresponding period in 2020, the company said Thursday. The automaker's sales outside Japan slumped 3.5% in September, compared with a 0.2% decline in the country. From April to September, Toyota's sales outside Japan fell 7%, while in the country it rose 6.2%. Electric vehicle sales jumped almost 20% year-over-year to 491,616 units in September, bringing the April-to-September growth to over 14% to about 2.8 million units.