Toyota global output falls for 7th straight month in August

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A worker assembles parts of a Tundra Truck at Toyota's truck plant in San Antonio, Texas, U.S. April 17, 2023. REUTERS/Jordan Vonderhaar/File photo

TOKYO (Reuters) – Toyota Motor (NYSE:)’s global production fell 11% 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%.