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>the most popular car on the planet That's the Toyota Corolla. I find this inaccurate glazing of musk to be relatively common but it always strikes me as prof

• kccoder 8mo ago
  Also, if you compare the entire model line up sales, Tesla isn't even in the top ten in sales. Tesla could disappear entirely and the car industry wouldn't even notice.
  • ikekkdcjkfke 8mo ago
    But the metric is good since it incentivizes car companies to make 1 good model instead of many different with the intent to confuse buyers
    • Marazan 8mo ago
      Car buyers are not confused. The market is naturally highly segmented. My needs "every day low distance compact car that can cope with city centre narrow streets with once a month motorway driving" is not met by the same car as "family of 5 with big dog living in a village"
• manuelmoreale 8mo ago
  To be charitable, according to at least some reports, the Model Y was the best selling car of 2024. I was googling the data for 2025 and it seems that it’s number 2 now (behind the RAV4 to my surprise) with the Corolla at 3. No idea how accurate these are, finding global numbers was harder than I thought.