Toyota Motor Corp. produced 5.3 per cent fewer automobiles in Could than a 12 months earlier because it slowed output attributable to provide chain disruptions afflicting automakers world wide.

Toyota’s output totaled 634,940 automobiles in Could, the Japanese carmaker mentioned Wednesday. The corporate bought 761,466 automobiles globally final month, down from 840,303 automobiles a 12 months earlier.

Toyota mentioned earlier this 12 months it supposed to pause manufacturing for the April-June quarter attributable to world supply-chain points, with President Akio Toyoda warning {that a} push to spice up output underneath such situations may result in “exhaustion.”

Toyota remains to be shielding itself comparatively properly from the tumult, together with fallout from the Covid lockdown in Shanghai, and intends to considerably elevate output within the coming months. The corporate final week mentioned it goals to spice up July-September manufacturing 40 per cent from a 12 months earlier, churning out a mean of 850,000 automobiles a month.

Toyota has “withstood automotive business disruption higher than most of its friends owing partly to its world diversification and the energy of its provider relationships,” CreditSights Inc. Senior Analyst Todd Duvick wrote in a report earlier this month.

Whereas all automakers are vulnerable to deteriorating car gross sales within the occasion of a recession, Toyota’s scale, vary of merchandise and geographic diversification ought to restrict revenue deterioration relative to its friends, Duvick wrote.

Individually, Honda Motor Co. Could manufacturing fell 15 per cent from a 12 months earlier to 244,368 automobiles and gross sales dropped 36 per cent to 262,813 models. Nissan Motor Co. manufacturing rose 1.7 per cent to 231,732 automobiles, whereas gross sales dipped 34 per cent to 230,918 models.