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Last August,
Ford made a few waves by claiming that the
Ford Focus was, at that point, the
top-selling car in the world. The automaker failed to account for variations of the
Toyota Corolla wearing a different name (such as the Auris and Matrix), however. With official data from
Polk coming in now, Ford is able to say that the Focus was, in fact, the best-selling
nameplate in the world last year.
Using new-car registrations (which doesn't factor in fleet sales), the Polk data shows that a total of more than one million Focus models around the world. Strong sales in the US and China have led to a 16 percent increase in year-over-year Focus sales from 2011 that helped to create even more of a gap between it and the second-best global seller, the Corolla.
Ford also had the
Fiesta and
F-Series listed in the top 10 for worldwide nameplates, but what's even more impressive is the fact that the F-Series is only sold in North America.
Scroll down to see the list (compiled by Ford using Polk data) of the top global sellers last year and a press release from Ford.
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