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The Model Y is neck-and-neck with the Toyota RAV4 as the most widely sold car model in the world.

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I am not convinced this is true. But perhaps you are using different criteria than this source.

For example the Toyota Corolla has sold 50 million, the Model Y, slightly over 2 million.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_automobil...

The Corolla has been on sale since 1966. The Model Y has only been on sale since 2020. Annually, the Model Y outsells the Corolla. https://www.accio.com/business/corolla-best-selling-car-in-t...

Whenever such claims were made, it was correctly pointed that Tesla makes very few models, so their sales per model may be higher than for other vendors even when the total number of sold cars is higher for their competitors, where the sales are distributed over many models.

There are Chinese vendors who sell more electric cars than Tesla.

Which ones ?

BYD and Geely both clear Tesla in electric vehicles sold. BYD sells more than double Tesla. VW isn't Chinese but they are right on Tesla's heels now.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/top-electric-vehicle-man...

I don't believe you. Can we have some numbers?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/239229/most-sold-car-mod...

Okay, sure, for one year. But "for year 2025" was not a qualification the grandparent poster made.

It’s been three years in a row: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/tesla-mode...

"for the last three years" was another strong qualification the grandparent post did not make.

no you're right sorry it's not up to your standards of selling as many cumulative units as cars that have been sold longer than most readers of this website have been alive

I mean, just don't lie and make outlandish and idiotic claim then. If the claim was "most unit sold since 2020", no one would've bat an eye.

Well, I raised an eyebrow at the claim that "The Toyota RAV4 is a very popular vehicle in terms of units sold worldwide over the last few years" as it just does not match what I see on the roads locally on a daily basis.

(There are tons of RAVs as yellow taxis in NYC though. That's the only place that I've seen them swarm)

But it is a defensible claim, and apparently globally it's true, even if locally it is not.

Its literally the best selling car these days and it’s a well known fact. That you didnt know speaks to your bubble

Don't knock people for not knowing stuff. We can always look it up and learn, and that's a good thing. No-one lives outside of a "bubble".

But in order to do so, the claim has to be presented in a coherent way, otherwise you'll check something else, such as here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48005822

> for year 2025" was not a qualification the grandparent poster made.

I interpreted the comment to mean that Tesla model Y is currently the most widely sold car in the world, not historically. model y is less than 10 years old.

i think it shows that tesla is actually able to ship cars at a high volume, which was the point of the thread.

So basically, way less than the 206, the beetle and probably a lot of US/Asian car i've never heard about.

> Toyota RAV4, the most widely sold car model in the world.

Nope.

Widely sold cars are the likes of e.g Toyota Corolla, VW Golf, Honda Civic, Ford Fiesta, Toyota Camry and Hilux. The other reply gives the link. The RAV4 isn't ones of these.

Out of those, only the Camry and the Corolla even make the top 10: https://www.statista.com/statistics/239229/most-sold-car-mod...

And as the other commenter has already pointed out, you didn't say "for year 2025" only.

That said, I'm surprised that the RAV4 is that popular, in the year 2025.

Why do you think the ranking changes that much from year to year? Model Y had the top spot 3 years in a row since 2020.

> Why do you think the ranking changes that much from year to year?

I did not say that. Why do you think that I did say that? (I'm surprised that the RAV was #1 in 2023-24 too. I don't see many or even any around here. But even 3 years clearly isn't "all time").

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