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Top 10 selling internatio­nal car companies in 2019

Share of 10 companies in car sales worldwide 52.5%, with total 44.5m cars

- By Ahmad Hassan Abdel Karim

Focus 2 Move website unveiled the world’s best-selling car companies in 2019, with Japanese Toyota taking the lead with a total of 8.683m and a share of 10.24% of the world’s total car sales, in addition to a growth rate of 1.8%. This is the second-best share of the company ever after 2012, while 2016 and 2017 were the lowest two years at a rate of 9.2%.

In second place is GermanVolk­swagen,which came with a total of 6.436m cars,and a decline of 1.8% compared to the previous year. It took over 7.59% of the world’s car sales.The company recorded the highest acquisitio­n rate in 2012 and 2013 at 8%.The periods between 2010 and 2016 accounted for a minimum ofVolkswag­en’s acquisitio­n of total global sales of 7.3%.

In third place, American Ford accounted for a share of 5.59% of the internatio­nal car market with a total of 4.735m cars and a decline of 7.8% on an annual basis.This means that the three aforementi­oned companies remained in the same positions they have occupied in 2018.

Honda has managed to achieve progress on the internatio­nal ranking level despite its sales decline of 0.6% compared to last year, reaching about 4.630m cars, and occupying the fourth position with a share of 5.46% of the total car sales.

Nissan ranked fifth with a total of

TOYOTA AT TOP WITH 10.24% MARKET SHARE, 8.7M CARS IN TOTAL

4.366m cars and a 7.7% decline compared to 2018, with a share of 5.15% of total car sales.

Hyundai maintained sixth place with a share of 5.05% and sales of 4.279m cars with a decline of 2.1%.

Chevrolet came seventh with a market share of 4.52% and sales of 3.831m cars, down 6.8%.

Kia achieved a growth in its sales volume of 0.3% on an annual basis with a total of 2.843m cars, occupying eighth place with a market share of 3.35%.

In ninth place, Mercedes came with a share of 2.94% with a total of 2.490m cars.

BMW came at the end of the list with 2.219m cars,achieving the biggest growth rate of 3.9% on a yearly basis, accounting for 2.62% of the market share of internatio­nal car sales.

The total sales of the 10 car companies worldwide are estimated to be 44.517m cars, representi­ng 52.51% of the share of car sales around the world.

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