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Old 10-08-2016, 10:45 AM   #712
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Originally Posted by Dadhawk View Post
This made me curious so I spent a couple minutes looking.

I couldn't find any worldwide numbers. I could find references to US numbers.

Per Toyota, they have "nearly 1,500 dealerships" in the US. (bottom of page).

I also thought it was interesting that 70% of the cars sold in the US are built here. Didn't realize it was that high.

Per Cars101.com (a Subaru focused site) there are "almost 625" Subaru dealerships in the US.

That's a deceiving ratio though because Toyota has huge dealerships with massive volumes while Subaru tends to be more of a "boutique" dealership with lower volume.

Also, I doubt this ratio of about 2 to 1 carries worldwide. Toyota sold over 10M cars in 2015 worldwide, Subaru, who has been on fire lately in terms of growth, sold less than 1M cars worldwide. (easily available info)
Oh thank god you replied. I reread what I had typed and noticed a typo that would have been truely embarrassing. No doubt Toyota wishes they had a 50 to 1 ratio of dealers like i wrote the first time around.
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