MILAN – Going crazy is not always negative, especially if it is not done by people with a precarious mental balance, as is sometimes stated. Once used by the universe of statistics, the numbers precisely photograph dimensions, trends and realities of many worlds, obviously including that of the automobile. In this regard, it is interesting to review a series of statistics highlighted by Ovoko, the association of used spare parts retailers which has over 130 million pieces in stock throughout Europe collected by 3055 sellers of the old continent.
Scrolling through interesting numbers, we discover that over 1 billion and 450 million cars are currently registered in the world, confirming the importance of independent transport throughout the planet.
In this enormous pie, the slice of electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles is small to say the least, considering an amount of approximately 3.28 million of the total for a percentage of 0.22% of the total.
The nation with the highest number of registered vehicles is already China, with more than 300 million units registered by the local administration.
The world ranking of the best-selling brands sees Toyota prevail (3.6 million sales per year) ahead of Volkswagen (1.9 million/year), Hyundai (1.6 million/year), Ford (1.5 million /year) and Honda (1.4 million/year).
The most popular car is the Toyota Corolla, reaching 1.12 million sales per year worldwide. Toyota also produces the best-selling SUV, the Rav4 which accumulates 870 thousand units delivered every 12 months.
However, among the electric ones, the numbers of the Tesla Model Y are notable, which reached the remarkable figure of 760 thousand models sold every year.
If we move on to dimensions and remain in the field of cars, the largest in the world, again according to Ovoko, should be the Bentley Mulsanne Limousine, which went out of production at the end of the 1990s with a length of 6.4 metres.
Among the most expensive, but we have seen historical models reach much higher prices, we note the Maybach Exelero concept, produced in a single example in 2005 and sold six years later to an American rapper for the modest sum of 8 million dollars. There is always someone who can, as you can see…