Best Selling Auto Brands Ranking up to October 2024 is still dominated by Toyota (-0.6%), followed by Volkswagen in 2nd (-0.2%) and Honda in 3rd (-2.4%) . BYD surged 39.4%, climbing to 6th, while BMW fell out of the Top 10.
The Global Auto Brands Ranking
Sourcing local Minister of Transportation or deputy agencies, we collect new light vehicles registrations, country by country, brand by brand, in 159 markets worldwide. Extracting data for our Global Auto Database we are able to report on this ranking as several others.
Considering cumulative data up to October 2024, Toyota was still the best selling brand, with 7,49 million vehicles sold. Despite a 0.6% year-on-year decrease, the Japanese giant maintained its decade-long leadership in the market, securing a 10.9% share of all global sales.
Volkswagen ranked in 2nd, with 3,94 million units sold and a 5.7% share of the global market (-0.2%).
In third place Honda -up 1 spot- with 3,07 million units sold and a market share of 4.5% (-2.4%).
In fourth place Hyundai -down 1 spot- sold 3,06 million vehicles (-3%), followed by Ford with 2,95 million sales (-0.2%) and BYD -up 3 spots- at 2,95 million (+39.4%). BYD is an EV specialist still selling ICE vehicles (representing over the half of company sales). In 2019 BYD ranking was the 49th in the world!
Nissan ranked in 7th with 2,59 million (+0.9%), followed by Chevrolet -down 2 spots- with 2,46 million units sold (-5.5%), and Kia -down 1 spot- with 2,41 million sales (-3.7%). Closing the top 10, Mercedes -up 1 spot- which reported 1,77 million new registrations (-1.1%).
Tables with sales figures
In the table below we report sales for Top 25 Brands.
