The world's favourite cars uncovered - pictures

The Rich pick-up is none other than a previous generation Nissan Frontier, outselling the Toyota Corolla and Mitsubishi Lancer in Venezuela last year. Dongfen themselves acquired fourteen per cent of PSA Peugeot Citroen last year.

Haval have become the number one SUV brand in China, expanding their two-model range in 2013, to seven. Haval want to begin conquering the world by launching in Australia, Russia and Chile. 

Even though Hawtei's joint venture with Hyundai was from 2002 to 2010, the small chinese company continue to use Hyundai technology today. 200 Lusheng E70 taxi's were shipped to Pyongyang last year and, based on likelihood, should be s

The N-Box is a prime example of Japan's KEI cars, whose small exterior dimensions and engine displacement lead to lower taxes. 

Iran Khodro is a long term partner of Peugeot and Renault, and despite the Samand being built on a Peugeot 405 platform, its considered to be Iran's first national car.

Russian car maker Lada, replaced the ancient 'Classic' in 2010 with the Granta. The brand may be a distant memory in Western Europe, but Lada continue to dominate the domestic market with a 17.7 per cent share in 2015.

The Matchedje F16 could soon be Mozambique's best seller. The Pick-up was a result of Chinese investment to be assembled locally to avoid steep import duties of other cars.

This familiar-looking Peugeot is no more than a facelifted Peugeot 405. Launched in Iran in 1999, the Pars is the best-selling vehicle in Iran.

Toyota has been a local player in Indonesia since 1977 when it released the Kijang. More units of the Avanza have been sold in Indonesia than Ford have managed to sell with the Fiesta in the UK.

After being launched in the 1980's to try appeal to Beetle buyers, the Gol has gone on to be Brazils top selling car for a total of 28 years. 

Launched in January, the Hongguang V is a bare-bones version of the best-selling Hongguang mentioned in this same article. Its functionality and low price made it one of the fastest selling vehicles to reach 30,000 monthly sales in wor

This rebadged Daweoo Lanos has been produced under licence by Ukrainian maker ZAZ since 2005.  The local ZAZ Sens is the best selling nameplate with 3,128 sales.

The Geely Emgrand EC7 is currently China's best-selling domestic saloon in China, with 75,189 finding a home in 2015.

The Mobius II is an off-roader aimed at handling the degraded state of most rural and urban sub-Saharan roads.