But our recent feature on the top sellers in every car market got us thinking – what are the individual brands’ biggest selling cars of all time, globally? So we reached for our calculator and started digging – some of the information was easy to find, others less so. And some of the results were surprising – many car marque best-sellers were last sold a long time ago, so join us on an intriguing journey.

Within the numbers, we've included sales by essentially the same car that appeared by a different model name, as is occasionally the case with some of the vehicles listed. We’ve ranked them from the smallest-selling car all the way through to the largest: