World Best Selling Small Cars in 2016. The top 50

World Best Selling Small Cars 2016 ranking still dominated by the Volkswagen Polo after that the rival Ford Fiesta had lost huge volume in the current generation run out. See the top 50.

Definition

It is defined a “Small car”  (or “B Class car” under the European segmentation) a small car passenger with a length size between the 3.7 and the 4.1 meters intended primarily for a use inside urban area. The term is used along with other terms for small cars including subcompact in North America.

Ranking

Following the decision of car makers to sales similar/same models with different nameplates across the Wold, all global ranking reported sales aggregated just for same nameplates and we do not assembly data. For instance, Suzuki Group distributes the Alto under the Maruti and Suzuki brand and respecting this strategy we report the two models separately.

During the 2016 the “small car” segment volume improved 1.6% at  global level with preliminary global volumes reported at 14.0 million units.

Podium unchanged from 2015 with the leadership still on the hands of the Volkswagen Polo with 705.858 units (+1.0%), mainly thanks to the outstanding +50% reported in America (South and North).

In second place the Ford Fiesta, leader two years ago, with a total of 461.389 sales (-16.6%) losing 33.3% in America and 63.6% in Asia.

Third was the Renault Clio with 456.997 units (+2.8%) losing 6.7% in America while gaining 4.2% in Europe.

In fourth place the Toyota Yaris with 393.139 units (-2.9%) followed by the Peugeot 208, up 1 spot with 334.772 sales (+7.9%), the Honda Fit with 330.169 (-3.5%) and the Kia Rio with 287.822 (-2.3%).

In eight place the Opel Corsa with 282.162 (-1.8%) ahead of the Hyundai i20 with 261.416 (-4.3%) and in 10th place the glorious Kia Pride, pushed up 3 place by Iranian performance with global sales at 249.279 (+11.9%).

F2M Mobility Database

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