Toyota got a foreshock of the chip shortage during the 2011 earthquake/tsunami/nuclear disaster. So they started stockpiling chips then; from their standard 3-m

Toyota got a foreshock of the chip shortage during the 2011 earthquake/tsunami/nuclear disaster. So they started stockpiling chips then; from their standard 3-month supply to 6-month supply. They figured that would've been enough to survive another incident of similar scale. So they had no problem with car inventory for a half a year longer than every other automaker, until their additional buffer of chips also ran out.