9/24/2023 0 Comments Define dredge upBut here’s the thing to remember: As I said about the Land Cruiser recently, the Corolla isn’t a car so much as it is cars. So the Corolla is really still the king by a pretty wide margin. That’s about 75% more than Tesla, even if you count the Model 3 in with the Model Y. We reached out to Toyota for Corolla numbers, and the automaker reports it sold 740,561 Corollas worldwide in the first quarter of this year, counting all versions including the Cross. Tesla delivered 412,180 Models 3/Y globally in the first quarter, and we can’t find the breakout among the two. Problem is, on all the charts we could find from Tesla as well as from fawning electric-vehicle sites reporting on them, the company groups Model Y production and sales with Model 3 production and sales. The story goes that the Model Y unseated the ubiquitous Toyota Corolla as the world’s best-selling car this year. (And because we believe in transparency and accountability here, unlike other outlets, I should admit I’ve said the same thing at times.) So points to Autoweek’s Todd Lassa for taking a closer look at the data here, and the answer is… yes and no. Near as I can tell, it started popping up in May with some JATO Dynamics research data, but it’s definitely a claim Musk has repeated himself. It’s unclear where exactly the claim about the Model Y’s best-selling car status came from. We lead our morning news roundup today with that, plus some surprising news about the federal government stepping it up on autonomous cars more details on General Motors’ big plans for OnStar and some not-so-promising developments out of a hydrogen-car taxi program in Japan. But is that oft-cited data point that the Tesla Model Y is the best-selling car in the world really accurate? A look at the numbers provides a more complex picture. Whether your closet’s full of T-shirts with Elon Musk’s face on them or you’d sooner die than be seen in one of his cars, you cannot deny that Tesla is-to borrow a phrase that the tech bros love-crushing it lately.
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