World Full Year 2014: Discover the best-selling German models

VW Jetta

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See the Top 1000 best-selling models in the world in 2014 here.

As far as German nameplates are concerned, Volkswagen unsurprisingly rules the roost in this ranking, placing six models inside the Top 7: the VW Golf is sovereign thanks to sales up 18% to 922.800, followed by the VW Polo (+3%), Passat (-2%) and Jetta (-1%) while the Tiguan (+10%) and Lavida (+22%) rank 6th and 7th respectively. Add to this the Gol (#12), Santana (#15) and Chinese Jetta (#17) and you have ten VW nameplates within the German worldwide Top 20.

373.000 BMW 5 Series found a buyer in 2014.

The Opel Astra remains in 5th place despite sales down 2% to 534.000 units, that includes the Vauxhall Astra and Buick Excelle XT/GT/Verano. BMW manages to place two nameplates inside the Top 10: the 3 Series is down 4% due to the renaming of its Coupe variant to 4 Series and the 5 Series is up 2% to an impressive 373.000 deliveries. The Audi A4 is #12, the Mercedes C-Class #13 and the E-Class #19. The Opel Mokka (#18) is the only new entrant in the Top 20.

See the Top 1000 best-selling models in the world in 2014 here.

World Full Year 2014 Top 20 German models below.