Which Car Company Grew the Most? Global Automaker Sales Race (1990-2026)

Which global car company grew into the biggest automotive giant? This data race visualizes estimated annual global vehicle sales by automaker group from 1990 to 2026, showing how the world's car giants rose, fell, merged, and fought for scale. Data source: Compiled from public company annual reports, delivery releases, industry summaries, and historical market references: Toyota annual reports / sales releases: https://global.toyota/en/ir/ Volkswagen Group annual reports: https://www.volkswagen-group.com/en/p... General Motors investor reports: https://investor.gm.com/ Hyundai Motor Group / Kia investor releases: https://www.hyundai.com/worldwide/en/... and https://worldwide.kia.com/int/company/ir OICA production/sales context: https://www.oica.net/ Public historical references from BestSellingCarsBlog, Carsalesbase, Wikipedia, and similar market summaries. Subscribe:    / @datarace_studio   Notes: Automaker-level global sales are compiled from public company annual reports, delivery releases, OICA/industry summaries, and public historical market references where no single unified public API exists. Major mergers and group structures are normalized to current/recognizable automaker groups for animation continuity. Dataset includes 20 global automaker groups with enough yearly observations. Long video render target: 3840x2160. Shorts render target: 1080x1920. A linked vertical Shorts version and a YouTube thumbnail are generated in the same output folder when rendering is enabled. 2025, 2026 values are estimates generated from recent Company annual reports, OICA/industry summaries, BestSellingCarsBlog, Carsalesbase, Wikipedia, IEA context trends, not official source observations. Music used: Night Run Away - An Jone.mp3