Best Selling Auto Brands Ranking in 2025. Hyundai moves up the rankings and into the Top 5 as Honda drops 9.2% into 6th. Geely impresses by growing 53.1% and emerging as top contender into 10th.
Sourcing local Minister of Transportation or deputy agencies, we collect new light vehicles registrations, country by country, brand by brand, in 159 markets worldwide. Extracting data for our Global Auto Database we are able to report on this ranking as several others.
Considering full-year data for 2025, Toyota was still the best selling brand. Gaining 1.2% year-on-year, the Japanese giant retained its decade-long leadership in the market, securing a 10.6% share of all global sales.
Volkswagen ranked in 2nd, losing 2% and with a 5.5% share of the global market.
Ford ranked 3rd, achieving a share of 4.4% while gaining 2.8%.
Hyundai ranked 4th while securing a 0.9% share (+0.91.9%), followed by BYD in 5th with a 3.8% share (-6.9%) and Honda in 6th (-9.2%).
Nissan -up 1 spot- ranked in 7th (+4.7%), followed by Kia -down 1 spot- in 8th (+4%), and Chevrolet in 9th (-1%). Geely -up 5 spots- closed the Top 10 (+53.1%).
EV Market Trend and Outlook
Geely leaps onto the podium while eyeing EV leadership. The sector showed big gains in 2025, growing 12.5% in 2025 and reaching about 17% of all vehicles sold.
BYD remained the leader holding a 22.1% share, despite slowing down and dropping 12.2%. Tesla followed in 2nd with a 10.8% share (-10.2%). Geely is rising quickly, up 140.8% and 3 spots into 3rd, followed by Wuling (+7.9%) and Leap Motor (+91.9%).
Tables with sales figures
In the table below we report sales for Top 25 Brands.
