The Honda Group sold 3.4 million vehicles in 2025
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The Honda Group sold 3.4 million vehicles in 2025
- The Honda Group (Honda, Acura) sold 3.4 million vehicles (passenger cars and light utility vehicles) in 2025, compared to 3.8 million in 2024, representing a 9% year-over-year decrease. This sales decline in 2025 (the largest among the top 10) is primarily due to the drop in sales in China, where Honda saw its registrations fall by 24.6%, to 678,000 units compared to 898,000 in 2024, 1,245,000 in 2023, 1,403,000 in 2022, 1,542,000 in 2021, and 1,656,000 in 2020. The Japanese carmaker has lost one million sales in China over the past five years, on an annual basis, which is significant.
- But Honda is also experiencing difficulties in its own historic market, Japan, with a 7.3% drop in sales, and also in Europe (-3.8%) where Honda has closed its two assembly plants.
- Only the USA stands out, Honda's largest market, where the Japanese carmaker has managed to stabilize its sales at a low level, at 1.4 million units in 2025, after having sold 1.6 million per year between 2015 and 2019.
- The carmaker Honda has therefore lost a lot of influence in the automotive sector since 2018-2019, a period during which it sold more than 5 million vehicles per year, and is only producing 3.4 million in 2025. Honda has not been able to capitalize like Toyota on the hybrid engines it launched in the 2000s and hesitated for a long time to take the path of electric vehicles.
Geely group sold 3.9 million vehicles in 2025
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Geely group sold 3.9 million vehicles in 2025
- The Chinese group Geely , which encompasses numerous brands (almost as many as Stellantis), including Geely, Emgrand, Galaxy, Geometry, Jiyue, Livan, LEVC, Lynk&Co, Maple, Polestar, Volvo, and Zeekr, and which owns 50% of Smart, sold 3.9 million vehicles worldwide in 2025, compared to 3.16 million in 2024. This represents a 23% increase, significantly higher than the growth recorded by BYD last year. Geely will thus become the world's eighth-largest carmaker in 2025, ahead of Honda and Suzuki and neck and neck with the Ford group.
- These figures do not include sales figures for Smart (50% owned by Mercedes) or those of the Malaysian brand Proton, 49.9% owned by Geely . Adding these two brands, the Geely group would have sold 4.1 million vehicles worldwide last year and would be the seventh largest carmaker in the world by 2025, not the eighth as we stated here.
- Although its Swedish subsidiary Volvo has a presence all over the world, the Geely group mainly sells vehicles from its many brands in the Chinese market, which represents 79% of its global sales.
- The remainder (21%) is mainly sold in Europe (333,000 sales in 2025), Russia (180,000 sales) and the United States (130,000 sales), three markets which together represent 16.5% of the Geely group's global sales, if we disregard Smart and Proton.
- Geely Group sold 1,454,105 BEVs and 792,247 PHEVs worldwide by 2025, representing 37% BEVs and 20% PHEVs. Last year, the carmaker sold 57% alternative powertrain vehicles, placing it among the most committed carmakers in the electrification of its products.
The BYD group sold 4.6 million vehicles in 2025
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The BYD group sold 4.6 million vehicles in 2025
- The Chinese group BYD (comprising the brands BYD, Denza, Fangchenbao and Yangwang), specializing in battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), has set a new record for its global sales in 2025, with a volume of 4.6 million light vehicles produced exclusively in China (its production in Europe has started in march 2026) compared to 4.27 million in 2024 (representing an increase of 7.7%), 3.02 million in 2023 and 1.86 million in 2022. Among the 4.6 million vehicles sold in 2025, there are almost as many BEVs as PHEVs, specifically 49.6% BEVs and 50.4% PHEVs.
- The sales growth of this carmaker, which really began in 2021, has been one of the most spectacular of all car carmakers over the past four years, allowing BYD to become in a few years the sixth largest carmaker in the world behind Toyota, Volkswagen, Hyundai-Kia, GM and Stellantis.
- BYD's global sales growth was primarily driven by the expansion of the Chinese automotive market, but also by the development of its product range, which has seen a significant increase in battery electric and plug-in hybrid models in recent years. These models have met the strong local demand for vehicles with lower emissions. As long as Chinese competition wasn't too fierce, BYD was able to thrive without any major issues. However, since 2025, and even more so in 2026, BYD has faced increasingly stiff competition, and its sales in China are tending to stabilize.
- China still accounts for the majority of BYD's sales (78% of global BYD sales in 2025). In Europe, BYD is experiencing strong growth, although its sales are still relatively low. The carmaker sold 187,657 vehicles there in 2025, compared to 60,004 in 2024 and 17,398 in 2023.
The Ford group sold 4 million vehicles in 2025
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The Ford group sold 4 million vehicles in 2025
- The Ford Motor Company (Ford, Lincoln) sold 4.035 million vehicles (passenger cars and light utility vehicles) worldwide in 2025, compared to 4.065 million in 2024, a decrease of 0.7%. The American carmaker ranks seventh globally, behind BYD and ahead of Honda, neck and neck with the Chinese carmaker Geely, owner of Volvo. It's worth noting that the Ford Motor Company was the world's second-largest carmaker for several decades, after GM. It's also worth remembering that the Ford Motor Company once owned Volvo, Jaguar, Land Rover, and Aston Martin, and that it sold all of these brands, in addition to the discontinuation in 2011 of the American brand Mercury, a subsidiary of the group since 1939. Today, the Ford Motor Company is represented only by the Ford brand, as the Lincoln brand has become quite niche (145,000 sales in 2025, representing 3.5% of total Ford Motor Company sales).
- Ford is primarily focused on its traditional market, the USA (which accounts for more than half of its global sales), having abandoned the Russian, Indian, and South American markets. Ford appeared to be gradually withdrawing from the European market (discontinuing the Fiesta, Focus, and Mondeo), except for commercial vehicles (the entire Transit range), which represent more than 500,000 sales annually. However, new agreements with Renault suggest that Ford has no intention of abandoning the European passenger car market anytime soon. In China, its position is not really robust, and its presence in this market could be called into question within a few years.
- The Ford group sold 203,000 BEVs in 2025 (5% of its total sales), compared to 151,000 in 2024.
The Stellantis group sold 5.34 million vehicles in 2025
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The Stellantis group sold 5.34 million vehicles in 2025
- The Stellantis group sold 5.34 million vehicles (passenger cars and light utility vehicles) in 2025, a slight decrease compared to 2024. This group, based on a strong presence in Europe (brands from the former PSA and Fiat groups) and in the USA (brands from the former Chrysler group), has seen its sales decline since its creation in 2021, which resulted from the merger of the PSA (Peugeot-Citroën) and FCA (Fiat-Chrysler) groups.
- While its sales figure was over 6 million vehicles in 2021, it is projected to fall to just 5.4 million units in 2025. Before the merger of the two carmakers, PSA and FCA combined for nearly 8 million sales, and the Stellantis group could have aspired to become the world's fourth-largest carmaker. Today, Stellantis ranks only fifth, neck and neck with the GM group and far behind the three global leaders: Toyota, Volkswagen, and Hyundai-Kia, which each achieve between 7 and 11 million sales per year.
- The Stellantis group faces several problems stemming from the merger: A "pricing" strategy geared towards reducing volumes in favor of the unit value of the models. An excessive number of brands (14) resulting in low profitability; a Fiat range that needs to be completely rebuilt following Marchionne’s strategy; an inconsistent and overestimated electric vehicle strategy in the US, forcing some backtracking; massive losses (over €22 billion by 2025) necessitating a "reset," meaning a complete change of strategy.
- Stellantis sold 313,000 BEVs in 2025 (6% of its total sales) compared to 247,000 in 2024.