Volkswagen becomes world's largest carmaker 
German automaker Volkswagen AG is the world's largest automobile manufacturer as per data available for the first half of 2016. Volkswagen sold 5.11 million units, around 80,000 units ahead of Japan's Toyota, and 360,000 units ahead of USA's General Motors, the second and third-largest automobile manufacturers. Volkswagen had been involved in an emissions test tampering scandal last year.