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World Full Year 2012: Discover the Top 50 German models

Opel Zafira World 2012I say the Opel Zafira is German. What do you think?

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The original World Full Year 2012 Top 1000 is here

We continue to slice up the worldwide models ranking by nationality, and this time let’s look at German models. Now I have faced a little bit or a conundrum here as Opel is a German brand but 100% owned by General Motors, so arguably all Opel models should sit in the US ranking. I’ve chosen to meet halfway, and the Opel models with over 50% of their sales under the Opel brand and ranked here (Corsa, Meriva, Zafira). The ones with over 50% under the Chevrolet brand will appear in the US ranking (Astra, Insignia).

VW Golf World 2012The VW Golf missed the #1 German spot worldwide by 32,000 sales.

With this cleared up, it’s no surprise to see the ranking dominated by Volkswagen but it is a surprise to see the Passat in the top spot (and #7 overall) with 782,694 sales, ahead of the Golf at 750,466, the Polo at 733,678, the Jetta/Bora/Clasico/Sagitar at 552,937 and the Gol at 482,594.

BMW 3 Series World 2012The BMW 3 Series is #10 German worldwide in 2012

The first non-VW is the Opel/Chevrolet Corsa at #6 and #29 overall with 455,385 units, followed by the BMW 3 Series at #8 and #36 with 406,752 sales and the Mercedes C-Class at #9 and #46 with 346,204 units. Notice also the BMW 5 Series at #10, Audi A4 at #11, Audi A6 at #12, Mercedes E-Class at #14, VW Lavida at #15 even though it is only sold in China, BMW 1 Series at #16, and Audi Q5 at #19.

Der neue Volkswagen CCVW CC

Further down, the BMW X3 ranks #25 German model worldwide just above its little brother the BMW X1 at #26, while the VW CC takes the 32nd spot, the Mercedes GLK is #34, the Mercedes ML-Class #36, BMW X5 #40, Porsche Cayenne #42, BMW 7 Series #45, Mercedes S-Class #46 and Audi Q7 #50.

The original World Full Year 2012 Top 1000 is here

Full Year 2012 Top 50 German models Ranking Table below.

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