Quote Originally Posted by circmand
PBKID not sure how familiar you are with stock but a company does not have any control over who buys their stock. Back a few decades ago GM was flush a Toyota was putting out little 3 and 4 cyl. cars only. Gm thought it would be a prudent step to buy a lot of their stock as a step into the Japanese market for them. Turns out it was a good investment but not for the reason they thought. Not sure what statistics you are using for the best selling car ever but using scientific principals you are wrond. The egnerally accepted measure is sales versus other car sales. For that last time I looked the Model T won. Another scientific method is sales over time versus the total amount of sales for that the VW Beetle has the record. The Corolla while the most popular Japanese car ever sold does not qualify for the best selling ever. Given that you did not evenknow which car it was I suspect you really did not know the facts either. Good Bluff though.
from wikipedia...
Best-selling models:

* Best-selling car nameplate - Toyota Corolla (more than 32,000,000 sold in nine generations since 1966)
* Best-selling vehicle nameplate - Toyota Corolla (more than 32,000,000 sold in nine generations since 1966)
* Best-selling single model - Volkswagen Beetle (21,529,464 of the same basic design sold worldwide between 1938 and 2003)
* Best-selling 2-seat car - Chevrolet Corvette (1,302,401 sold between 1953 and 2003 (1,407,858 between 1953 and 2006, not including 2006 Z06)) [6]
* Best single-year sales - >1,000,000 - Chevrolet Impala, 1965.[7]
* Best single-month sales - 126,905 - July 2005 Ford F-Series [8]
* Best Selling Minivan - Dodge Caravan, over 11,000,000 sold.


i dunno for sure but im guessing the vehicle nameplate means it includes all sub models (hatchback, wagon, sedan, LX etc)