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"said that it plans to produce 9.42 million vehicles next year, a number that will likely push it past General Motors as the world&amp;#039;s top automaker in terms of volume, The Wall Street Journal reported.   Toyota&amp;#039;s new production target is a 4% increase from the 9.04 million vehicles the Japanese company expects to produce in 2006. The total includes overseas production of 4.27 million vehicles and domestic production of 5.15 million vehicles.   , which hasn&amp;#039;t released a forecast for next year&amp;#039;s production, expects to build 9.18 million vehicles in 2006, up from the 9.11 million vehicles it produced in 2005. Analysts don&amp;#039;t expect much growth in production by GM next year, the story said.   While Toyota has boosted production in North America, Asia and other parts of the world, and plans to open new plants in China, Thailand and Russia to meet demand for its products, GM, which is in the midst of a painful restructuring after posting a $10 billion loss last year, plans to shut more factories. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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