Thread: The Best Selling Car of All Time

I'm not sure which one it is, but it's either the Volkswagen Beetle or the Toyota Corolla. Anybody have an idea? :?

1. Volkswagen Beetle, 1937
21 million made

2. Toyota Corolla, 1963
20 million

3. Ford Model T, 1908
15.5 million

4. Volkswagen Golf/Rabbit, 1974
15 million

5. Lada Riva, 1970
13.5 million

Source: The Top 10 of Everything 1998, by Russell Ash (DK Publishing, Inc.)


I hope that helps.

just to add to this.. The best selling sports car of all time is the small but fun to drive Mazda MX-5. I think its around 1 million but I am not sure...

Yea, you're right. The Mazda Miata (also known as the MX-5) was produced more than 600,000 times since it's introduction in 1989.

I'm not sure how much it costs, but it probably was cheaper than other sports cars of its class.

Well then i think you could ask the opposite question of what the least sold car is?

Well the McLaren MP4/18 never raced

But seriously, the least sold car? You could argue that a car that reached the prototype stage, only to be scrapped, is a car that never sold.

If you would look at reliability, there are many cars that developed a notorious reputation for breaking down all the time or even 'driving themselves to the dealership'

In fact the Renault R5 Turbo, built in the 80s, has been referred to as the 'least sporty, most poorly constructed car' ever sold in America!