World Cars Brand Ranking Year to Date March 2021 sees Toyota leading the market followed by Volkswagen and Honda. BMW scores the best performance, increasing sales by 19.1%, while Ford is the only brand not to report growth.
The Global Auto Brands Ranking
Year to Date March 2021, Toyota holds 11.3% share with sales at 2.06 million (+8.3%), after further widening the gap from the followers during the Covid-19 crisis.
Furthermore, tracking the ranking of top-selling car brands in the World since 2010, we have always seen Toyota leading the scene. Indeed, the Japanese benefit from the strategy to have concentrated in a single brand the most powerful line-up in the World, and while other manufacturers have assembled different brands aiming to cover more customer segments, Toyota has just a little diversification in the one-brand strategy, with Lexus in the luxury segment and Daihatsu in the small, low-cost vehicles.
Volkswagen – in 2nd position – holds 6.6% share and sold 1.20 million vehicles so far (+6.1%).
Behind, Ford holds 3rd position with 1.01 million units (-0.2%) and is the only brand not to report growth, followed by Hyundai which reported 950.730 units (+13.8%), and Nissan with 885.051 units (+9.4%).
In 6th position, Honda reported 862.105 sales (+13.6%), followed by Chevrolet, which gained 1.2% with 742.607 units sold, and by Kia, which sold 658.573 units and gained 3.2%.
Closing the leaderboard we have Mercedes with 608.973 units sold (+12.9%), followed by BMW which so far sold 516.541 units (+19.1%).
Tables with sales figures
In the table below we report sales for Top 50 Brands.










