World Full Year 2013: Now with Top 20 biggest manufacturers!

The new generation Corolla helped Toyota keeps its worldwide crown in 2013.

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In 2013, 84.1 million new vehicles found a buyer worldwide which is a new all-time record, up 5% on 2012 and actually the 4th consecutive record-breaking year for worldwide vehicle sales. Toyota has seen its global sales gain 2.9% year-on-year in 2013 to 9.98 million units (including subsidiaries Hino Motors and Daihatsu), placing the group at #1 in the world for the 2nd year in a row after losing the top spot in 2011 following natural disasters in Asia which crippled production. General Motors previously held the worldwide pole position from 1931 to 2007, with Toyota taking over from 2008-2010. Toyota predicts a 3.4% increase for its worldwide sales in 2014 to reach 10.32 million.

VW Scirocco. The Volkswagen Group is the 2nd biggest car manufacturer in the world.

A bit of controversy for the 2nd place: some sources mention General Motors, however Volkswagen is up 5% and one spot to rank #2 this year at 9.73 million sales, including its heavy commercial vehicle brands Man and Scania. Volkswagen is also on target to pass the 10 million unit-mark in 2014, whereas it originally sets itself to reach this target in 2018! The VW nameplate saw its sales up 3% to 5.93 million, Audi is up 8.3% to 1.58 million, Skoda down 2% to 920,800, Seat up 10.6% to 355,000 and Porsche up 15% to 162,145.

2015 GMC Yukon. General Motors lost the #2 spot worldwide to Volkswagen in 2013.

General Motors is third with 9.71 million sales, up 4% on 2012. The Chevrolet brand is up 0.4% to 4.98 million sales, Opel/Vauxhall is down 0.4% to 1.064 million, Buick up 15% to 1.03 million thanks to China and Cadillac up 28% to 250,830 units. GM doesn’t detail other brands which include its participation in Chinese SAIC Wuling and total 2.4 million sales for the year (+10%).

The Renault-Nissan Group remains in 4th position with sales up 2% to 8.26 million, split as follows: 5.1 million for Nissan, 2.63 million for Renault-Dacia-Samsung and 0.53 million for Avtovaz (aka Lada). Hyundai-Kia stays 5th but is catching up with the Top 4 thanks to sales up a very impressive 6.5% on 2012 to 7.56 million units. The Top 5 biggest car manufacturing groups in the world account for over one in every 2 vehicles sold worldwide (53.5%).

2015 Ford F-150. Ford is the biggest gainer in the Top 10 with sales up 10%.

Now without Mercury, Jaguar, Land Rover and Volvo, Ford won’t ever play with big boys anymore, but is however up an astounding 10% in 2013 to 6.25 million sales thanks to excellent performances in China (+49%) and the US (+11%) and in spite of lukewarm sales in Europe. Fiat-Chrysler is up 3.6% to rank 7th with 4.35 million sales, with the balance leaning more and more towards the American operations of the group: Chrysler is at 2.6 million units vs. 1.75 for Fiat. Honda is catching up: +7.3% to 4.1 million sales in 8th place. PSA Peugeot Citroen is one of only two major groups to see its sales fall over the period: down 4.9% to 2.82 million units at #9.

BMW is the best-selling premium car manufacturer in the world at #11 and 1.92 million units.

Just outside the Top 10, two premium German manufacturers beat their all-time record sales in 2013: BMW is up 6.4% to 1.92 million units and Daimler is up 10% to 1.56 million sales. In the premium brand race, the BMW brand is world leader in 2013 with 1.66 million sales (+7.5%) ahead of Audi at 1.58 million (+8.3%) and Mercedes at 1.46 million (+10.7%). For all 3 brands, these are all-time annual record sales!

Geely is the biggest Chinese manufacturer at #16 globally.

Back to the global manufacturing ranking with Tata Motors, owner of Jaguar-Land Rover, the last manufacturer above 1 million worldwide sales at #15 (1.04 million) thanks to record sales for the two British brands (425.000). Note the Top 15 manufacturers account for 86% of worldwide sales. In 16th place with have the first Chinese manufacturer, Geely, totalling 977.358 units: 549.518 for the Geely brand (+14%) and 427.840 for Volvo (+1.4%) with the Swedish manufacturer up 46% in China but down 10% in the US. The next most popular Chinese manufacturers are ChangAn (840.000), Great Wall (754.000), BYD and Chery (480.000).

Previous year: World Full Year 2012: Global sales at a record 80 million new vehicles

Full Year 2013 Top 19 manufacturers Ranking Table below.