GM global sales down slightly in ’06

General Motors Corp. said today that it sold 9.09 million cars and trucks worldwide in 2006, down 0.9% from 9.17 million one year earlier. Toyota Motor Corp. has said that it expects final totals to show it sold 9.04 million vehicles in 2006. The Japanese automaker is forecasting 2007 production of 9.42 million vehicles in 2007, which would put it on track to outsell GM worldwide this year.