Godzilla beat King Kong last year: Toyota Motor Corp. outsold General Motors on GM’s home turf, the U.S. market. It is the first time since 1931, when GM overtook Ford in sales, that GM has not led U.S. auto sales for a full year. Toyota sold 2.332 million vehicles here last year, while GM sold only 2.218 million.

You can chalk up this statistic as another automotive milestone for 2021, which shouldn’t raise any eyebrows. Seems like every time some new bit of data is released relating to the auto industry, some record is broken or average is raised. Most automakers are just tilting at windmills, while consumers, the ones responsible for many of these records, bear the brunt of the impact.

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