The world’s best-selling automobiles in 2022

January 30, 2023

Completely different automobile markets have completely different wants and tastes, so who’s shopping for what around the globe?


An estimated 79 million new automobiles have been bought around the globe in 2022, with Australia accounting for 1,081,429, or about 1.4 per cent of worldwide demand – regardless of accounting for 0.3 per cent of the world’s inhabitants.

We all know utes and SUVs reign supreme in Australia, with the Toyota HiLux topping our gross sales charts at 64,391 automobiles (6 per cent of complete gross sales), however what about the remainder of the world?

These 22 international locations make up 75 per cent of the worldwide gross sales market, and inform some attention-grabbing tales about new-car gross sales developments.



As anticipated, the Ford F-Sequence pick-up tops the charts within the US – because it has finished for the previous 41-years – and in Canada.

Contemplating F-Sequence pick-ups in these two markets account for 739,000 gross sales alone implies that new F-Sequence gross sales in North America make up 1 per cent of the worldwide new automobile gross sales quantity on their very own.

Europe continues to be a small-car-focused market, with the Peugeot 208 and Toyota Yaris every taking high spot in two international locations. The one top-selling electrical automobile on the checklist is the Tesla Mannequin Y, which accounted for 10 per cent of complete new-car gross sales in Norway.



Nationwide satisfaction is powerful too, with 10 top-selling automobiles in our checklist hailing from the nation by which they topped the charts.

Nation
Make
Mannequin
Automobile sort
Quantity
Market share
Australia
Toyota
HiLux
Ute
64,391
6.0%
Canada
Ford
F-Sequence
Full-size pick-up
105,043
7.0%
China
BYD
Music
Mid-size SUV
459,424
2.1%
Denmark
Peugeot
208
Metropolis automobile
3,920
2.6%
France
Peugeot
208
Metropolis automobile
88,812
5.8%
Germany
Volkswagen
Golf
Small automobile
84,282
3.2%
India
Maruti (Suzuki)
Wagon R
Metropolis automobile
217,317
5.7%
Italy
Fiat
Panda
Metropolis automobile
105,384
8.0%
Japan
Honda
N-Field
‘Kei’ metropolis automobile
202,197
4.8%
Korea
Kia
Sorento
Giant SUV
68,902
5.0%
Mexico
Kia
Rio
Metropolis automobile
50,958
4.7%
Netherlands
Toyota
Yaris
Metropolis automobile
11,178
3.6%
New Zealand
Ford
Ranger
Ute
11,577
9.9%
Norway
Tesla
Mannequin Y
Electrical SUV
17,356
10%
Poland
Toyota
Corolla
Small automobile
21,819
5.2%
Portugal
Peugeot
2008
Small SUV
6,001
3.2%
Russia
Lada
Granta
Metropolis automobile
95,879
13.9%
Spain
Hyundai
Tucson
Mid-size SUV
21,985
2.7%
Sweden
Volvo
XC40
Small SUV
14,252
5.0%
Switzerland
Toyota
Yaris
Metropolis automobile
5,572
2.5%
UK
Nissan
Qashqai
Small SUV
42,704
2.6%
USA
Ford
F-Sequence
Full-size pick-up
633,957
4.7%
James Ward

James has been a part of the digital publishing panorama in Australia since 2002 and has labored throughout the automotive trade since 2007. He joined CarAdvice in 2013, left in 2017 to work with BMW after which returned on the finish of 2019 to spearhead the content material course of Drive.

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