Best Selling Car Manufacturer Ranking In 2025. BYD stumbles and loses momentum, being outpaced by Geely Group which continues its uptake. Honda Motor drops 6.7% with the sharpest losses among leading groups.
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 full-year data for 2025, the leader was Toyota Group with a 12.2% share (+2.4%). It gained 2.9% in Asia and 3.7% in America.
The 2nd was Volkswagen Group with a 9.6% share (-0.9%). It reported losses in Asia (-6.6%) but grew 4.5% in Europe.
In third place, Hyundai-Kia reported a 8% share, up 2.1%. It posted gains in America (+5.7%) but losses in Europe (-1.7%).
Renault Nissan Alliance -up 1 spot- ranked in 4th (-2.6%). It fell 6.2% in Asia despite slowing down in America (-1.1%) and in Europe (-0.4%).
Stellantis ranked 5th (+1.3%). It gained 31.9% in Asia but lost 4.7% in Europe.
General Motors ranked 6th (+1.2%). Despite dropping 15.8% in Europe, it gained 2.8% in America.
Ford Group followed in 7th (+2.3%), losing 14.4% in Asia and gaining 6.5% in America.
Geely Group -up 3 spots- ranked 8th (+27.1%), climbing 3 spot and reporting one of the best performances overall, with gains mainly in Asia (+38.8%).
In 9th place, BYD fell 1 spot, losing 2.5% in volume. The group fell 9.3% in Asia but grew 45.7% in America.
Closing the top 10, Honda Motor -down 2 spots- ranked 10th (-6.7%) with major gains in Europe (-17.2%) and America (+6%) despite slowing down in its major market, Asia (-16.8%).
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 full-year sales growing 12.5% and reaching a 17% share on the total.
BYD remains the leader with 23% of the sector despite losing 10.3%, mainly dragged down by losses in Asia, its largest market.
Tesla ranked 2nd and dropped 10.2% to a 10.8% share, close to be overtaken by Geely Group which boomed 57.7% and reached a 9.5% 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.
