The single-year record is a century old

No model has ever beaten the 2,011,125 Model Ts Ford built in 1923 — Tesla's landmark 2023 still fell roughly 790,000 cars short.

The top 3

1. 1923: Ford builds 2,011,125 Model Ts: At the peak of the moving assembly line, Ford turned out over two million Model Ts in a single year — a one-model record untouched for more than a century.
2. 2023: Model Y's 1.22M, the modern peak: The biggest verified global sales year for any nameplate in the modern era — and the first by an EV — yet still only about 60% of Ford's 1923 haul.
3. 1965: Impala's 1,046,514 in one country: Chevrolet sold over a million Impalas in the US alone in 1965 — a single-market annual record for one nameplate that still stands six decades later.

Sources

• Wikipedia – Ford Model T
• JATO Dynamics

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