Top 100 Most Sold Car Brands By European Country

Map created by geo.facts_The map above shows the European country of origin of car brands that make up the top 100 most sold car brands in the world.

From the map author:

I know this might be a very specific post, but let’s get into it! Out of the Top 100 car brands that sold the most vehicles in 2023, 24 of them are European car brands!

Germany’s 🇩🇪 Volkswagen is the second brand that most sold in the world in 2023, just behind the Japanese Toyota. Other than that, Smart, Opel, BMW, Mercedes Benz, Audi and Porsche are also representing Germany in the list!

For France 🇫🇷 we have Citroën, Renault, Peugeot and DS – with Renault being the one that sold the most cars out of these four. For Italy 🇮🇹 we have Lancia, Fiat and surprisingly Alfa Romeo, Fiat was the 16th out of the 100!

The United Kingdom 🇬🇧 has four car brands in the list: MG, Land Rover, Jaguar and Mini. Sweden 🇸🇪 has Polestar and Volvo, while Spain 🇪🇸, Czech Republic 🇨🇿 and Romania 🇷🇴 only have one, respectively: Seat, Skoda and Dacia.

And in case you’re wondering here the top 100 car brands, their sales number and market share for 2023 from Road Genius :

Brand	2023 Car Sales	2023 Market Share %
Toyota	8,569,973	11.07%
Volkswagen	4,965,621	6.41%
Honda	3,774,161	4.87%
Ford	3,729,817	4.82%
Hyundai	3,540,787	4.57%
Nissan	2,975,048	3.84%
Suzuki	2,916,149	3.77%
Kia	2,731,370	3.53%
Chevrolet	2,692,391	3.48%
BYD	2,683,743	3.47%
BMW	2,101,487	2.71%
Mercedes-Benz	2,063,820	2.67%
Audi	1,772,892	2.29%
Tesla	1,770,354	2.29%
Renault	1,435,847	1.85%
Fiat	1,235,442	1.60%
Mazda	1,182,034	1.53%
Peugeot	1,060,432	1.37%
Changan	1,011,336	1.31%
Jeep	1,008,181	1.30%
Geely	1,002,311	1.29%
Tata	937,087	1.21%
Subaru	889,975	1.15%
Wuling	851,935	1.10%
GAC	839,537	1.08%
Skoda	804,710	1.04%
Chery	799,063	1.03%
Daihatsu	783,416	1.01%
Volvo	750,483	0.97%
Buick	702,821	0.91%
GMC	697,486	0.90%
Mitsubishi	696,262	0.90%
Haval	685,246	0.89%
Citroen	676,695	0.87%
Ram	662,980	0.86%
Perodua	655,970	0.85%
Opel	620,563	0.80%
Dacia	599,438	0.77%
MG	593,679	0.77%
Lexus	556,407	0.72%
Seat	499,938	0.65%
Isuzu	450,850	0.58%
Li Auto (Ideal)	376,032	0.49%
Hongqi	370,506	0.48%
Lada	354,406	0.46%
Cadillac	350,394	0.45%
MINI	268,485	0.35%
Land Rover	267,075	0.34%
Porsche	233,118	0.30%
Dodge	228,872	0.30%
Changan Auchan	220,643	0.28%
Jetour	210,957	0.27%
Genesis	207,939	0.27%
Chrysler	192,701	0.25%
Lynk&Co	179,249	0.23%
Dongfeng	173,308	0.22%
Lincoln	162,994	0.21%
Nio	162,456	0.21%
Jetta	162,000	0.21%
Freightliner	159,487	0.21%
Acura	158,883	0.21%
Roewe	157,200	0.20%
Proton	151,613	0.20%
Tank	149,752	0.19%
XPeng	142,954	0.18%
Denza	127,253	0.16%
Shenlan	123,968	0.16%
Zeekr	118,685	0.15%
Hino	115,104	0.15%
Exeed	103,954	0.13%
Iveco	102,712	0.13%
Ora	102,009	0.13%
FAW	101,674	0.13%
AITO	101,631	0.13%
Leap Motor	100,967	0.13%
Neta	89,747	0.12%
Geely Galaxy	83,491	0.11%
SAIC	80,887	0.10%
JAC	80,511	0.10%
Infiniti	78,043	0.10%
Sehol	74,995	0.10%
JinBei	74,790	0.10%
smart	70,945	0.09%
Alfa Romeo	68,683	0.09%
Venucia	65,491	0.08%
BAIC	64,796	0.08%
SsangYong	64,257	0.08%
Geometry	62,616	0.08%
BAIC New Energy	62,154	0.08%
OMODA	61,280	0.08%
GAZ	59,583	0.08%
Jaguar	58,179	0.08%
Kenworth	55,753	0.07%
DS	54,724	0.07%
Polestar	54,039	0.07%
Peterbilt	51,828	0.07%
Voyah	50,263	0.06%
Great Wall	48,100	0.06%
Rivian	47,984	0.06%
Lancia	44,745	0.06%