The World's Most Popular Cars

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The World's 10 Most Popular Cars

Toyota Motor has climbed to the top of the global auto industry by keeping it simple: Models like the Corolla, Camry and Yaris sell in Asia, Europe and North America, with minor modifications to meet local regulations. A look at the 10 top-selling cars in the world.

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No. 1: Toyota Corolla

The perennial No. 1, Toyota's compact sold 908,661 units last year, about one-third of them in the U.S. The Corolla is among the vehicles Toyota recalled for potential pedal entrapment and a sticky accelerator, but sales aren't expected to suffer enough to knock it out of first place.

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No. 2: Ford Focus

Instead of selling different vehicles in different regions and calling them all the Focus, Ford is rolling out one Focus, designed from scratch, to sell in markets around the world. To boost scale and save money, it's developing as many as 10 models off the same engineering platform--2 million vehicles in all. Last year it sold 781,139 Focus cars.