The commuter sedans and hatchbacks people actually buy.
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After nine generations sold at home, Toyota finally built a Camry that Japan itself can't buy — the XV80 is assembled there purely for export.
The 11th-generation Civic is the first since the late-1970s second generation not to offer any two-door body style.
Since 1997 the Corolla has been the best-selling car nameplate in history, overtaking the VW Beetle -- Toyota passed 54 million sold by early 2026.
One of the world's best-selling mid-size sedans skipped a market entirely for this generation: the 11th-gen Accord was never sold in Malaysia, after sales of the previous generation there kept declining.
This Accord's Japan/Europe version won the Car of the Year Japan award for a record third time at its 2003 launch.
Before CarPlay showed up in luxury cars, Honda beat everyone to it: the 2016 Accord was the very first mass-market car fitted with Apple CarPlay.
This was the last Civic generation to offer 4WD at all, and on launch it won Car of the Year Japan for a record fourth time.
The 2012 Civic was so poorly reviewed that Consumer Reports dropped it from its 'Recommended' list of compact cars — a list the Civic had held a spot on for years.
Even the 276-hp Elantra N skips the stick in China: this is the first Elantra generation built there since 2003 without a manual option at all.
Polestar built this one on two continents before quietly dropping China and keeping only South Carolina.
The XV40 Camry Hybrid's drag coefficient of 0.27 made it, at the time, the most aerodynamic car ever built in Australia.
The XV70 Camry was the first Toyota of any kind to run Entune 3.0 — an infotainment system built on an open-source Linux OS, rather than Toyota's usual closed software.
This Camry's shape was slippery enough to make it the most aerodynamic car built in Australia at the time — matching the record set by the Camry it replaced.
This was the first Jetta that wasn't just a three-box Golf — VW gave it dedicated bodywork instead of building it as a sedan derivative.
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VerifiedFIRST PRINTSince 1997 the Corolla has been the best-selling car nameplate in history, overtaking the VW Beetle -- Toyota passed 54 million sold by early 2026.
VerifiedFIRST PRINTPROThe 2012 Civic was so poorly reviewed that Consumer Reports dropped it from its 'Recommended' list of compact cars — a list the Civic had held a spot on for years.
VerifiedFIRST PRINTPROThe XV70 Camry was the first Toyota of any kind to run Entune 3.0 — an infotainment system built on an open-source Linux OS, rather than Toyota's usual closed software.
VerifiedFIRST PRINTONLY ONE IN VANCOUVERNIGHTThe 2012 Civic was so poorly reviewed that Consumer Reports dropped it from its 'Recommended' list of compact cars — a list the Civic had held a spot on for years.
VerifiedFIRST PRINTONLY ONE IN VANCOUVERPROThe 11th-generation Civic is the first since the late-1970s second generation not to offer any two-door body style.
VerifiedFIRST PRINTEven the 276-hp Elantra N skips the stick in China: this is the first Elantra generation built there since 2003 without a manual option at all.
