Best Selling Car Manufacturer Ranking In 2025.BYD’s momentum from previous months cools, slipping 2.5% and stalling across Asia. By contrast, Geely Group continues to accelerate, outperforming the other top-10 groups. Tesla, meanwhile, still misses the top 10 and falls 11.4%, dropping from 15th to 16th.
This report is produced by extracting the registrations figures from the Global Database owned by our team, which tracks registrations in 159 countries, all brands, and all models.
In this article we report on the global ranking of car manufacturers considered as a group, aggregating sales done for each brand owned by the same group.
Looking at YTD data up to November 2025, the leader was Toyota Group with a 12.3% share (+2.6%). It gained 3.3% in Asia and 3.6% in America.
The 2nd was Volkswagen Group with a 9.7% share (-0.2%). It reported losses in Asia (-5.1%) but grew 4.1% in Europe.
In third place, Hyundai-Kia reported a 8% share, up 1.4%. It posted gains in America (+4.2%) but losses in Europe (-1.9%).
Stellantis -up 1 spot- ranked in 4th (+0.7%). It surged 28.3% in Asia despite slowing down in America (-0.9%) and in Europe (-5.2%).
Renault Nissan Alliance -down 1 spot- ranked 5th (-2.5%). It fell 5.3% in Asia and 1.2% in Europe.
General Motors ranked 6th (+2.8%). Despite dropping 17.9% in Europe, it gained 4.4% in America.
Ford Group followed in 7th (+2.3%), losing 11% in Asia and gaining 6% in America.
Geely Group ranked 8th (+29.4%), climbing 3 spot and reporting one of the best performances overall, with gains mainly in Asia (+42.6%).
In 9th place, Honda Motor fell 1 spot, losing 5.1% in volume. The group fell 14.6% in Asia but grew 7.2% in America.
Closing the top 10, BYD -down 1 spot- ranked 10th (+2.5%) with major gains in Europe (+348.7%) and America (+43.6%) despite slowing down in its major market, Asia (-8.5%).
EV Market Trend and Outlook
BYD and Tesla stumbles, as Geely’s surge intensifies competition for EV leadership. Globally, EV sales are expanding in 2025, with sales up to November growing 13.6% and reaching a 17% share on the total.
BYD remains the leader with 23.1% of the sector despite losing 9.1%, mainly dragged down by losses in Asia, its largest market (-15.3%).
Tesla ranked 2nd and dropped 11.4% to a 10.5% share, close to be overtaken by Geely Group which boomed 67.2% and reached a 9.7% share. It reported gains especially in Asia, where it surged in double digits and passed the million vehicles sold.
Tables with sales figures
In the tables below we report sales for the top 30 groups.
