The next Autocade Year of Cars will have a top 10 table. We looked at sourcing the numbers from Focus2move, as we originally did for the full-year 2024 table, but their summary (at the time of writing; this page appears to change) did not hold water once we began investigating the rankings themselves based on official sources.
Unfortunately, it brought into doubt their year-end figures for 2024, which we first cited (with credit, natch) and have since had to update with our own research. Here is where we sit for 2025, year to date.
| Toyota | 8·36 million |
| Volkswagen | 6·59 million |
| Hyundai | 5·46 million |
| Renault Nissan Mitsubishi | 4·75 million* |
| GM | 4·55 million |
| Stellantis | 3·91 million |
| Ford | 3·31 million |
| BYD | 3·26 million |
| Geely | 2·95 million |
| Honda | 2·59 million |
* Mitsubishi’s figure is based on production and not sales.
Out of interest, we did use Google to look for some of these numbers (not a search engine we normally employ, and have not done as a default since 2010). Google’s ‘AI overview’ gave a number for Hyundai and Kia that was 860,000 fewer than what you see here. It was very confident, citing the figures right down to the unit. However, it was a complete fabrication.
BYD has continued to rise, while Geely appears in the top 10 for the first time, pushing Honda down and Suzuki out.
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