Best Selling Car Manufacturer Ranking In 2025. Toyota Group stayed on top with big gains, securing 12.4% share. Geely was the standout, up 34.8% in 9th and overtaking BYD.
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 August 2025, the leader was Toyota Group with a 12.4% share (+4.7%). It gained 7.1% in Asia and 4.4% in America.
The 2nd was Volkswagen Group with a 9.6% share (+0.3%). It reported losses in Asia (-2.2%) but grew 3.4% in Europe.
In third place, Hyundai-Kia reported a 8.1% share, up 2.9%. It posted gains in America (-10.3%) but losses in Europe (+2.7%).
Stellantis -up 1 spot- ranked in 4th while gaining 0.8%, growing in Asia (+27.7%) but falling in Europe (-5.1%).
Renault Nissan Alliance -down 1 spot- ranked 5th (-2.4%). It fell 6.6% in Asia and 5.1% in Europe.
General Motors ranked 6th (+4.6%). Down 21.9% in Europe and gained 7.8% in America.
Ford Group followed in 7th (+4.3%), losing 9.7% in Asia and gaining 7.6% in America.
Honda Motor ranked 8th (-4.5%), reporting one of the best performances overall, with losses mainly in Asia (-14.6%) and Europe (-19.6%).
In 9th place, Geely Group rose 2 spot, gaining 34.8% in volume. The group gained 50.8% in Asia but lost 4.6% in Europe.
Closing the top 10, BYD ranked 10th (+8.1%) with major gains in Europe (+367.8%), Asia (+38.5%) and Oceania (+50.8%).
Tables with sales figures
In the tables below we report sales for the top 30 groups.
