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The milestone that the global car industry has been holding its collective breath for - Toyota's unseating of General Motors as the world's biggest carmaker - came last year instead of in 2007, according to a leading industry journal.
Detroit-based weekly Automotive News said Japan's top carmaker outsold GM by about 128,000 units last year, based on a technicality that excludes sales of vehicles at minority-held subsidiaries.
