3. Volkswagen Golf
[Not a valid template]More success for Volkswagen, and the Golf gets on the podium with a massive 29 million sales since 1974. That’s an impressive achievement, not just against other VW products, but also in more modern markets that have huge amounts of choice for consumers. Why so successful? Well, it’s sold almost everywhere, and there hasn’t been a terrible generation of Golf in the seven so far produced. Variants from the little runabouts to the fire-breathing hot hatches have found fans across the globe.