We are in the 3rd quarter of year 2016 and auto sector has started talking about the best selling car of the current year.Toyota Corolla been able to retain ‘this title’ until now.’From January 2016 to June 2016 , more than 6,34,298 units of Toyota Corolla units, were sold by the company , reports Focus2Move – an Italian Auto Research and Consulting company.
If you glance through the sale stats of Toyota Corolla , no other company , has been able to sell that much units.The rocketing sale of Corolla got it to No1 position in 2015 and it is still retaining its position.In the year 2015 , Toyota sold 13.30 lakh units of Corolla.
Talking about India , the car has been available with the name ‘Corolla Altis’ which is a ‘C’ segment premium executive sedan car and highly popular in its segment too.In many countries Corolla is also available in its hatchback avatar.Sale stats show that it is a ‘very admired sedan’ world wide.
The No 2 best selling car in the world 2016 has been the ‘Volkswagen Golf’ whose 5,00,630 units have been sold between Jan- June 2016.The car by Volkswagen ‘Golf’ is not available in India ,however’ it has another model called ‘Polo’ which occupies 6th slot in global sales.The ‘6th best selling car’ in the world 2016 ‘Polo’ witnessed a sale of 3.58 lakh units.
Apart from this Hyundai’s Elantra which is maintaining its position among top 10 top selling cars around the world is capturing No 5 position.Another Toyota’s popular model ‘Camry’ is on 8th Position.Honda CRV which is also available in India is on 9th position among globally best selling cars 2016.