Toyota global output falls for 7th straight month in August

TOKYO : Toyota Motor's global production fell 11 per cent in August, declining for a seventh straight month, dragged lower by a typhoon and a certification scandal in Japan and a pause in output for two sport utility vehicles in the United States.

Output for August slumped to 709,571 vehicles with production in its home market tumbling 22 per cent.

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