Worlds Best Selling Car

[m3_lover]

I was wondering if anybody knows what was the best selling car in the world for 2005? I am looking everywhere for it... But I can not find it?

[bhall]

Toyota claims that it's their Corolla.

[m3_lover]

I know it is the best selling car from the beginning to the present..being like 36 million or so copies being sold... but it is hard to find what was the best selling car in 2005?

[manchild]

Best selling model name not best selling car.

[Ted68]

According to this, it is the Corrola. But it isn't exactly the finest source.

http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=99587

[Ciro Pabón]

I don't know if this is the answer because I am not totally sure of understanding the question.

What I can say for sure that the biggest total in history (or perhaps platename) belongs to the Toyota Corolla with between 31.6 and 36 million sold since 1966, (depending on what you call a Corolla).

However (this could be a surprise) the current best-seller model is the Ford F-series truck. I read it on the OICA newsletter at the beginning of this year, but I cannot find it now.

The Ford F has also the record for most sales on a month (July 2005) with a total of almost 127,000 vehicles. It is more astonishing when you think this is a truck designed and sold in the american market. It has been the best-selling vehicle brand for 23 years in a row in USA.

I once had a 1952 Ford F-3 and let me become a little poetic, american style: it is a h*ll of a car (you can tell I've been watching one too many NASCAR races). There is nothing in it that is not already in you and by that I mean that is a car whose every nut, bolt and gadget are understood at first sight. I could take care of "her needs" by myself. It has Zen, like an F1 car: its shape necessary, its purpose self evident.

Anyway, this is a modern record. The record for higher yearly and monthly sales belong to Ford Model T, in 1920. Between 1917 and 1920, after the steel-vanadium alloy was invented, Mr. Ford sold over 5 million vehicles, which is well over 1.5 million per year, according to TRB figures I took by hand from their library long time ago. Only 9 countries produced more cars than Mr. Ford in 2005 (Brazil, China, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Spain, United Kingdom and USA). Here is a picture I love, that I took from the same source:

Models T on the first road with a central line:


Again, according to OICA, the total world production in 2004 was 62.4 million vehicles and is expected to reach 70 million in 2006, with an increase of 5% over 2005 figures. This means around 67 million sold in 2005. In 2003 this meant around 1.6 billion (that is, USA "trillions") euros.

I take this figures from the OICA newsletter for August, in case someone is interested:

Year 2005:

Code: Select all

  Maker                                    Total vehicles sold
1 General Motors (Opel-Vauxhall-GM Daewoo) 9097855
2 Toyota                                   7338314
3 Ford (Jaguar-Volvo cars)                 6497746
4 Volkswagen Group                         5211413
5 DaimlerChrysler (with Evobus)            4815593

Another surprise: the best selling design, to satisfy Manchild, is the Volkswagen Beetle. The second best selling design is, of course, the Ford Model T.

Finally, there is a list of "superlatives for cars" in Wikipedia, including total figures on vehicles sold, that you might find interesting, from the longest passenger car (Cadillac Fleetwood 75, 6.42 m, I saw one once) to the shortest (Isetta 1956, 2.28 m).

[m3_lover]

I check that site to before the post..Ciro... Good effort and Thanks for the try ... I found this though for

In 2001 and 2002, Focus was the world’s best selling car. Now I need 2003, 2004 and 2005 damn this shuold be easy to find.. but it is hard

[pRo]

Yes, GM is still #1, if you just look at the number of sold cars.

...better not look at their financial situation, if you like them.

[pRo]

I take this figures from the OICA newsletter for August, in case someone is interested:

Year 2005:

Code: Select all

  Maker                                    Total vehicles sold
1 General Motors (Opel-Vauxhall-GM Daewoo) 9097855
2 Toyota                                   7338314
3 Ford (Jaguar-Volvo cars)                 6497746
4 Volkswagen Group                         5211413
5 DaimlerChrysler (with Evobus)            4815593

To be fair, Toyota owns Lexus, Daihatsu and Hino these days, shouldn't they be calculated in the number as well? Just as Daewoo after GM purchased it? Doesn't change the rank though. That stat seems to calculate the whole corporation from others, but only one brand from Toyota Motor Corporation.

The total number for 2005, including all Toyota Motor Corporation vehicles is 8 232 143.

[manchild]

Another surprise: the best selling design, to satisfy Manchild, is the Volkswagen Beetle. The second best selling design is, of course, the Ford Model T.

Another surprise: the third best selling design, to satisfy Ciro, is the Renault 4 8.135.424 units (1961-1994)

[Ciro Pabón]

MC: thanks a lot, did not know it. You have no idea how much that post "satisfies me". Actually, I am going totally out of thread, sorry m3_lover and everybody.

I had several of these, back in the 80's. My second car was a Renault 4, when I was 18. It is the best sold car in Colombia (my first one was another funny french design, a Simca 1000).

It is another indestructible car, that you can repair in the middle of nowhere with some gum and a string, like the F truck. Someone on the forum remembered it on "Romancing the stone", filmed in Colombia. In the Eastern Plains ("Llanos Orientales") it is a must: there are many places (the plains are the size of France) where there are no roads, we don't plan to build them (while I am alive! ) and you navigate using compass.

Man, did I run a few miles on that poor car...

Colombian Eastern Plains from Macaravé mountain (not one person in sight for hundreds of kilometers) where the car was broke for three days:

Listening "Stairway to Heaven" on Caño Cristales (Crystal Spring), the "seven colour river", colombian Eastern Plains, a site I reached miraculously in a R-4, 1981:

The "Pits":


I can only think about it when I see Tom's avatar: I've always believed it was Renault's answer to the 2CV. The first time I saw Yacamán Jr. racing (a colombian pilot you'll hear about some day in the future, I believe) was on one of them.

On thread: sorry about the figures, m3_lover. Last time I did research on the world vehicle market was in 1994! Only thing I can add is that this morning I looked around OICA web site, which I've never done : perhaps if you write them they can provide the figures or point you in the correct direction. I haven't checked MIA's page, perhaps they have something.

I believe Toyota is a member of OICA, so I don't know why they did not include the figures for other Toyota owned brands, pRo. There is a page on statistics on OICA site, but they only discriminate down to year/country/car maker, not car model. For those not familiar with it, OICA stands for world car manufacturers association: it is so old that the acronym is in french, like FIA .

[m3_lover]

Ciro...what can I say... You are a great guy on here

[manchild]

Pelé on a trip to Paris in '71 in a Rodeo which is a derivative of the 4.' The magazine article states this car is not so much a 'papamobile' as a 'pelémobile'