10 Best-Selling Products Of All Time

#8 Toyota Corolla

Category: Vehicle

Units sold/sales: 39 million cars

Parent Company: Toyota

Toyota Corolla, which achieved the eighth position on the list is one among the line of compact cars manufactured by the Japanese auto-maker Toyota. It rapidly became popular throughout the world ever since the nameplate was first introduced in 1966. Beating the Volkwagen Beetle, it became the best-selling nameplate in the world in 1997 and as of 2012, more than 39 million Corollas have been sold. The company has also considered several design revisions as the car was breaking the sales records.

The car gets the name ‘Corolla’ as it is the tradition of Toyota to name their primary models using the name ‘Crown’; and the term ‘Corolla’ means crown in Latin.

The early models of Corolla were mostly rear-wheel drive and the later ones were front-wheel drive. The company has produced some models that were four-wheel drive. One of the major competitor of Toyota Corolla almost from the very beginning has been Nissan Sunny that was also introduced the same year.