We’ve known for years Toyota is the most-popular automaker in the world, but we now know its popularity extends to the digital world too.
U.K. auto parts retailer Quickco released a graphic representation of information it complied about which automakers were Googled most in 2016, and the results are pretty interesting. The data includes only the 193 nations Quickco was able to collect information from, with North Korea, Iran and Cuba being among the more-notable exceptions.
Some nations on the map are relatively small, so click here to view a higher-resolution version of the image.
Toyota topped the list by being most-searched in 74 different countries, followed by BMW with 51 and Hyundai with 17. One interesting trend we noticed is just half of the nations with major domestic manufacturers — U.S., Germany, Italy, France, Sweden, South Korea, U.K. and Japan — searched for their homegrown brand the most.
It’s worth noting that while Quickco used Google to collect its data, Google is not the primary search engine in countries such as China, Russia and South Korea.
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Photo via Quickco
