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eighty five point six million cars sold worldwide in 2014 but who accounted for how much of that I'm Brian Cooley with the answers the top five global automakers that's different and I think more interesting than the top five Auto makes let's get started number five the Hyundai Kia Group eight million sold up a hearty seven percent now Hyundai Kia has been a huge growth story for several years taking its solid place as a member of the big five their portfolio of car brands is perhaps the simplest on today's list basically Hyundai and Kia but they are part of perhaps the most diversified family conglomerate in our list that includes steel shipping machine tools finance aerospace and their original industry construction number for Renault Nissan eight and a half million of two and a half percent these two formed a tight partnership back in 1999 under it our Nissan Renault Infiniti Dacia Lada an important stake in Auto Vaz in Russia and a partnership with Daimler that will soon produce the first Mercedes pickup truck no not come into the u.s. here Mercedes is seen strictly as a luxury brand never as a taxi or a truck now we enter the tight race between the global big three number three General Motors nine point nine million up two percent GM was number one for over 75 years but it's the only car maker now to have slid a spot on this list from number two in 2013 to its current number three now not because its sales dropped but because number two grew even faster GM is huge beyond its American brands in Chevy and Cadillac for example they've got Holden in Australia Opel and Vauxhall in Europe ten different car making operations in China which is also where Buick does most of its sales number two the Volkswagen Group 10.14 million up four percent last year and crossing the 10 million line for the first time in company history they've been talking about soon being the world's biggest automaker now if the VW Group succeeds it would do so with the while portfolio in the entire big 5vw powdi Porsche Bentley Lamborghini say OTT Skoda Scania trucks Ducati bikes a big slice of Suzuki and two joint ventures in China its ownership is also rather interesting largely split between Porsche and the government of Lower Saxony don't ask before I get you to number one where are all these cars made according to numbers from the International Organization of motor vehicle manufacturers China makes the biggest slice of the world's 85 million cars followed by the US Japan Germany and South Korea oh by the way take out commercial vehicles and the u.s. drops from number two to number four the biggest car maker in the world is Toyota ten point two three million up two and a half percent tight race at the top as you can see but Toyota has nudged out VW so far for number one using its namesake brand along with Lexus Scion he no trucks Rams V's in China majority control of Daihatsu they've got a stake in Fuji Heavy Industries that Subaru as well as a piece of his Susan the interesting story to watch at the top of 2016 is will Toyota dropped to number two and BW go to the top spot for the first time so far mid-year Volkswagens ahead by 82,000 cars more top 5 lists to wait the car lover go to see net on cars calm LeConte top 5