DETROIT (WKZO) -- General Motors is regaining the global sales leader crown. The automaker reports selling just over nine-million vehicles in 2011. That's up more than seven-percent, or about a half-million vehicles, from the year before.
GM is number one in sales just two years after emerging from bankruptcy. Volkswagen was second in global sales and Toyota was third. General Motors led the world in car sales for seven decades. That ended when Toyota took the top spot in 2008. President Obama approved the government's bailout of GM.