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Comment by phyzix5761 | Hacker News Reader

Tesla Model Y is the best selling car in the world for like 3 years in a row. They don't need a new product any time soon.

Edit: All you Tesla haters just google "best selling car in the world last 3 years" and you'll see.

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Tesla's net income almost halved twice in the said three years btw.

2023: $15B

2024: $7B

2025: $3.8B

Tesla's free cash flow is up over that time and that's the real measure of profit:

2023: $4.357 billion

2024: $3.581 billion

2025: $6.22 billion

I can find no evidence that supports this claim.

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/tesla-mode...

https://www.focus2move.com/world-car-market/

Your first link comes from Tesla themselves, and the second smells strongly AI generated. If I search for the "best selling car 2026" and don't lead the search engine by feeding it "tesla model y", I see none of those results.

https://www.goodcarbadcar.net/2026-us-auto-sales-figures-by-...

https://www.best-selling-cars.com/usa/2026-q3-usa-top-10-bes...

When I google "best selling car 2026" my results show Tesla Model Y. I suspect maybe google is playing a bit of the "confirmation bias results" game for the both of us based on our past search history.

Maybe. One of the links was to a Tesla Reddit thread making the same claim you are, but with people in the comments pointing out that there was no sourcing provided. I don't think Google's algorithm is smart enough to notice the pro-Musk subreddit wasn't chugging the kool-aid for once.

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