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From the EV1 Wiki page:

Manufacturer General Motors Production 1996-1999 (1,117 units)
1997 Model Year: 660 units
1999 Model Year: 457 units

We get this:
You'd better be quicksharp, though - Europe will get just 250 Roadsters for 2009, and Tesla's Darryl Siry tells us that 50 of them have already been snapped up.
Tesla Roadster news - Tesla: lots more to come - 2008 - News - Top Gear

And this:
Tesla, the US company behind the £92,000 vehicle, says it already has orders for 1,100 in America and is increasing production at the Lotus Engineering plant in Norfolk.
Green machine: The £92,000 electric sports car that does 125mph in complete silence | Mail Online

Makes the total 1,150 Roadster sold. Surpassing the 1,117 EV1 units delivered.

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Kardax

Had the EV1 been offered for sale, its numbers could be much higher. (Or much lower, depending on what the actual price of the car truly was...)

Also, the article talks about deliveries, not orders... it's not clear how many cars Tesla has delivered right now (5? 16?)... but they're still a long way from reaching 1000+.

They'll almost certainly pass the Tucker Torpedo by year's end, though :)

I actually have a list somewhere of all the milestones Tesla might attain... I'll dig around for it...

-Ryan

graham

Yes! If you find it, please post it as a new thread. It will be fun to track it over the next few months!

Kardax

Ok, here it is:

Vector: 35 cars
Tucker: 51 cars
Corbin: 300 sparrows
RAV4 EV: 600 cars
EV1: 1171 cars
De Lorean: 9000 cars
Edsel: 120000 cars
Hudson: 300000 cars in one year


-Ryan

Kardax

That's a good suggestion graham... but I didn't see it before I posted (less than 1 minute separates our posts). Maybe a moderator can split this off.

In any case, Vector and Tucker are both seriously threatened right now. Unless there's some kind of terrorist attack in the San Carlos area, those icons are doomed to fall in a matter of weeks.

-Ryan

TEG

CommuterCars, Zap, ACP, Bricklin ...

On the other hand,

• 10,000,000+ cars and trucks are manufactured and sold in the United States every year.
• 70,000,000+ vehicles are produced annually worldwide.
• 600,000,000+ cars are on the world's roads

vfx

That EV1 number is only near (last two numbers inverted) the Wiki named first year of production. No offense to your sources but that thousand-car difference makes me doubt the other numbers.


Wiki total 2,234
1st year total 1,171
List Number 1.117

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I wonder about The Major's small run cars. Prowler, Chevrolet SSR, Solstice, Viper, New Thunderbird, PT Cruiser convertible.

How many do they allot for these specialty (mostly retro) cars.

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Some examples here:

Ferrari 360
Bestselling Ferrari in history; over 17,000 coupés and convertibles.

Lamborghini Gallardo
Bestselling Lamborghini in history; over 5,000 coupés and convertibles to 2007.

Lamborghini Diablo
2,903

Lotus Elise
Lotus Cars' bestseller; 17,000 in two generations to August 2004

Mazda MX-5
almost 750,000 in the first two generations to 2005, verified by the Guinness Book of Records as the bestselling two-seater sports car in history

Original Mini
The bestselling British-made car; 5,505,874 in a single design

Looks like GM Europe sold 10 whole Opel Omegas last year...

2007 Hybrid sales tidbits:
181,221 Toyota Prius
17,291 Lexus RX400h
1,645 Lexus GS450h
937 Lexus LS600hL
772 Saturn Aura
Latest Hybrid sales stats

TEG

Some March 2006 stats:

1 BMW Z8
10 Maybach
11 Carrera GT
12 NSX
15 SLR
28 Rolls Royce
37 Aston Martin
59 Lamborghini
76 Audi TT
79 Insight
147 Viper
435 Boxster
507 S2000
523 Crossfire
560 Cayman
2000 MX5/Miata
3013 350Z
7922 Prius