The Top 100 Best-Selling Models In The World
Over the past few of weeks we have traveled to Chile and Georgia, Myanmar and Bolivia, the last 3 destinations being all your fault: you asked for it! Now I felt I had to interrupt this elan of generosity and hold on going to countries you asked for just for one week.
I have to rectify a very important ranking: the best-selling cars in the world.
You may remember earlier this year I wrote an article detailing the Top 10 best-selling models in the world in 2011, based on an article published on Forbes. Which I had a few issues with. Well a few official figures, a lot of work and a couple of long nights later, I now have a ranking that looks much more like reality…and is much bigger: the Top 100 best-selling models in the world in 2011!
All this after the jump.
But wait, if the world is too much for you to handle today, that’s fine because I have sales info for 160 countries for you to visit in my blog, all one by one. So don’t be shy and click away!
Back to the world.
Forbes said the Hyundai Elantra became millionaire last year. Not true. They must have added sales of the i30 in the mix or sumfin. Not fair.
So let’s get back to the beginning.
If the Toyota Corolla is confirmed as 2011 world’s best-selling car with 1,141,709 sales, a big disappointment is in store for Hyundai fans: the Elantra is far from threatening the Corolla for the pole position and is not millionaire in 2011 in spite of what Forbes told you. Even including the 3 generations of the model still in production somewhere in the world (especially in China), Elantra sales amount to 751,967 units, placing the model in 6th position…
In second place we find the now globally aligned Ford Focus with 882,541 sales…
…followed by the VW Golf at 864,452 units
…and the VW Polo with 788,789 sales, thanks to its success at every corner of the globe, from Europe to South Africa to China to India.
Over the past few of weeks we have traveled to Chile and Georgia, Myanmar and Bolivia, the last 3 destinations being all your fault: you asked for it! Now I felt I had to interrupt this elan of generosity and hold on going to countries you asked for just for one week.
I have to rectify a very important ranking: the best-selling cars in the world.
You may remember earlier this year I wrote an article detailing the Top 10 best-selling models in the world in 2011, based on an article published on Forbes. Which I had a few issues with. Well a few official figures, a lot of work and a couple of long nights later, I now have a ranking that looks much more like reality…and is much bigger: the Top 100 best-selling models in the world in 2011!
All this after the jump.
But wait, if the world is too much for you to handle today, that’s fine because I have sales info for 160 countries for you to visit in my blog, all one by one. So don’t be shy and click away!
Back to the world.
Forbes said the Hyundai Elantra became millionaire last year. Not true. They must have added sales of the i30 in the mix or sumfin. Not fair.
So let’s get back to the beginning.

If the Toyota Corolla is confirmed as 2011 world’s best-selling car with 1,141,709 sales, a big disappointment is in store for Hyundai fans: the Elantra is far from threatening the Corolla for the pole position and is not millionaire in 2011 in spite of what Forbes told you. Even including the 3 generations of the model still in production somewhere in the world (especially in China), Elantra sales amount to 751,967 units, placing the model in 6th position…

In second place we find the now globally aligned Ford Focus with 882,541 sales…

…followed by the VW Golf at 864,452 units

…and the VW Polo with 788,789 sales, thanks to its success at every corner of the globe, from Europe to South Africa to China to India.