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Volkswagen features taken Toyota's crown to be the entire world's top carmaker by product sales - about when it comes to 12 months to date.

Data on vehicles sold because of the businesses through the very first six months of 2015 show the German automaker nudged out its Japanese rival to claim the very best spot.

Volkswagen marketed 5.04 million automobiles from January to Summer, hook dip from a year early in the day. That even compares to 5.02 million offered by Toyota within the exact same duration. Group product sales dropped 1.5per cent due to a weaker overall performance by its Toyota and Daihatsu companies.

Automakers are being challenged by softening problems in areas like Asia and Russia, and Volkswagen is apprehensive about the outlook.

The carmaker, that also owns the Audi and Porsche companies, explained its overall performance up to now this year as "satisfactory" in an arduous environment.

Sales manager Christian Klingler has actually warned particularly about difficult market circumstances in Asia.

Product sales in Asia - Volkswagen's largest solitary marketplace - dropped almost 4percent in the first 1 / 2 of the season. North America had been brighter, in which sales climbed 6per cent.