Best Selling Auto Brands Ranking in 2025 saw declines across the podium and the entire Top 10, except for Geely (+26.5%), which surged four spots and ranked 10th.
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 data for January 2025, Toyota was still the best selling brand, with 706,544 vehicles sold. Despite losing 6.6% year-on-year, the Japanese giant retained its decade-long leadership in the market, securing a 10.8% share of all global sales.
Volkswagen ranked in 2nd, with 395,777 units sold and a 6.1% share of the global market (-4.3%).
In third place Honda totaled 277,991 units sold, achieving a market share of 4.3% despite losing 22.5%.
In fourth place Ford -up 1 spot- sold 270,437 vehicles (-5.4%), followed by Hyundai -down 1 spot- with 263,208 sales (-9.8%) and Nissan at 226,543 units (-14.1%).
Kia ranked in 7th with 219,302 million (-3.7%), followed by Chevrolet with 213,008 units sold (-5.5%), and BYD with 208,713 sales (-4.7%). Closing the top 10, Geely -up 4 spots- reported 190,557 sales, growing 26.5% with the best performance among Top 10 brands.
Tables with sales figures
In the table below we report sales for Top 25 Brands.
