The Toyota Motor Corp. logo is displayed on a Crown vehicle during a test drive in Tokyo, Japan, on Oct. 6, 2015. Photo by Akio Kon/Bloomberg

Toyota Motor Corp. manufactured and sold a record number of cars in July, stretching the carmaker’s streak to a seventh consecutive month, on strong demand in the U.S. and China despite global trade uncertainties.

Toyota’s worldwide sales — which includes subsidiaries Daihatsu Motor Co. and Hino Motors Ltd. — rose four per cent from a year earlier to 963,796 units, the company said Thursday. While domestic sales dropped two per cent, there was a six per cent jump in markets outside of Japan.

Toyota and Lexus brand sales in North America were particularly strong, with demand for trucks, SUVs and gas-electric hybrid models leading to a 20 per cen

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