What cars were the most popular in the world in 2018?

22 August 2018

Bestseller list almost unchanged

Leaders of sales on the Russian market is well known: they are spoken on every corner, they crammed all the streets. In the first seven months are better than others in Russia are the Kia Rio, Lada Vesta and Lada Granta. However, who is considered a bestseller in the world? There are leading a completely different model.

According to the information portal focus2move, which refers to the analytical Agency "AUTOSTAT", in a whole dozen of world leaders were extremely conservative. Most of the machines from the list of industry leaders remain bestsellers is not the first and not the first decade.

First place is firmly holds the Toyota Corolla. For six months in the world has sold 610 thousand cars of this family. Demand was stable: the decline in sales of 0.4% fit into the statistical error.

But if the Corolla Russians still used (although in our market it has long negatives to its former elevation), the owner of the symbolic silver some can plunge into shock. We are talking about full-size pickups Ford F-Series. These honest and hardworking has sold 536 thousand copies, improving sales by 3.2 %. However, such a situation could only surprise those who've heard a little about the U.S. market. There Ford F-Series remains the segment leader for more than 30 years, tirelessly demonstrating excellent sales.

In third place was the Volkswagen Golf. For the first half of his chosen 441 thousand people. Demand growth was 0.8 %. Also in the top five most successful cars on the planet included the Honda Civic (424,7 thousand; +7.2 percent) and Toyota RAV4 (408,7 thousand units; +7.5 percent).

This is followed by Volkswagen Tiguan (405,1 thousand; +16.3 per cent), Volkswagen Polo (375,8 thousand units; +8.3 percent), Honda CR-V (337,8 thousand; -4 %), Toyota Camry (337,1 thousand; +6.3 %) and Chevrolet Silverado (323,7 thousand; +8.9 percent). Among all these models on the Russian market is not represented only the Chevrolet Silverado, which is a direct competitor to the Ford F-Series and sold only in North America.