Earlier in January, Renault-Nissan Alliance chairperson Carlos Ghosn claimed that his company was the best-selling automobile group in the world in 2017. And now the Alliance has finally released its official sales figures for the year.
The group announced that its member companies sold a combined total of 10 608 366 units around the globe in 2017, with Ghosn again insisting that this made the Alliance “the number-one automotive group worldwide”.
As previously reported, the Volkswagen Group delivered a record 10 741 500 vehicles during the year. But Ghosn argued that this included some 200 000 heavy trucks, which if removed from the equation, would put the VW Group firmly in second.
The Renault-Nissan Alliance includes as many as ten separate brands: Renault, Nissan, Mitsubishi, Dacia, Renault Samsung Motors, Alpine, Lada, Infiniti, Venucia and Datsun.
Groupe Renault accounted for 3 761 634 units in 2017, while Nissan managed 5 816 278 vehicles worldwide. Meanwhile, Mitsubishi sold 1 030 454 vehicles in 2017.
For the Volkswagen Group, the VW brand registered some 6 230 200 units, while Audi added about 1 878 100 units and Škoda some 1 200 500 vehicles. Seat managed 468 400 units, Porsche 246 400 and VW’s commercial division a further 497 900.
And the Toyota Motor Corporation? Well, the Japanese automaker (including Daihatsu) registered a figure of 10 466 451 units in 2017, or 10 270 907 excluding Hino heavy trucks division, putting it in third…
