And The Hits, They Keep On Coming: America's Top Twenty

by Bertel Schmitt

Published: May 2nd, 2013

and the hits they keep on coming america s top twenty

This is the list of America’s best-selling car in the month of April and in the first four months of the year, as compiled by Reuters.

Top 20 selling vehicles in U.S. in April RANKVEHICLEAPRILLAST YR% CHNG1Ford F-Series P/U59,03047,45324.40%2Chevy Silverado-C/K P/U39,39530,74928.10%3Honda Accord33,53835,385-5.20%4Toyota Camry31,71036,820-13.90%5Dodge Ram P/U31,40921,12648.70%6Ford Fusion26,72221,61023.70%7Honda CR-V26,51923,62712.20%8Honda Civic26,45324,4238.30%9Ford Escape25,82616,98652.00%10Hyundai Elantra24,44516,83645.20%11Toyota Corolla24,27324,804-2.10%12Ford Focus22,55719,42516.10%13Chevrolet Cruze22,03218,20521.00%14Nissan Altima21,99116,23935.40%15Chevrolet Malibu21,73421,906-0.80%16Chevrolet Equinox20,96518,28214.70%17Toyota Prius19,88925,168-21.00%18Toyota RAV418,54115,19622.00%19Hyundai Sonata16,07720,521-21.70%20Jeep Grand Cherokee15,00311,83426.80%Top 20 selling vehicles in U.S. through AprilRANKVEHICLE20132012% CHNG1Ford F-Series P/U227,873191,28019.10%2Chevy Silverado-C/K P/U156,044126,38723.50%3Toyota Camry132,540142,225-6.80%4Honda Accord121,96596,51726.40%5Dodge Ram P/U109,00388,59023.00%6Nissan Altima108,943112,599-3.20%7Ford Fusion107,28085,55925.40%8Toyota Corolla104,51793,23212.10%9Ford Escape98,80975,59030.70%10Honda Civic98,712101,592-2.80%11Honda CR-V91,89398,214-6.40%12Ford Focus84,45585,468-1.20%13Chevrolet Equinox79,83469,85914.30%14Hyundai Elantra78,99161,23729.00%15Chevrolet Cruze77,76375,2883.30%16Toyota Prius75,61386,027-12.10%17Chevrolet Malibu70,91380,456-11.90%18Hyundai Sonata63,36275,716-16.30%19Ford Explorer62,85347,03733.60%20Toyota RAV459,95455,0618.90%

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Bertel Schmitt

Bertel Schmitt comes back to journalism after taking a 35 year break in advertising and marketing. He ran and owned advertising agencies in Duesseldorf, Germany, and New York City. Volkswagen A.G. was Bertel's most important corporate account. Schmitt's advertising and marketing career touched many corners of the industry with a special focus on automotive products and services. Since 2004, he lives in Japan and China with his wife <a href="http://www.tomokoandbertel.com"> Tomoko </a>. Bertel Schmitt is a founding board member of the <a href="http://www.offshoresuperseries.com"> Offshore Super Series </a>, an American offshore powerboat racing organization. He is co-owner of the racing team Typhoon.

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Danio3834 on May 02, 2013

The most interesting race in this pace is that of the trucks. While Ford is still well ahead, if Ram keeps up those torrid gains, the GM twins better look out. Of course the large Ram gains over the GM trucks represents an all new 2013 Ram vs. an unchanged GM truck, so we'll see how the market receives the 2014 GM offerings. After having spent some time with various iterations of the new Ram, GM's game had better be stepped up quite a bit.

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Cargogh on May 02, 2013

I'm not surprised by the ubiquitous Altima. But living a city that builds the Escape, I was thinking yesterday when I saw one, that they must not be selling well, because I sure haven't notice many. Unless I have and passed them off as Kias or Hyundais. With these number gains, they'll cover Louisville like old Explorers have in a few years.

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- PrincipalDan on May 02, 2013
  
  I've seen a good # of Escapes here in the Desert Southwest and a fair number are highly trimmed more expensive models. But yes they do look quite a bit like a Hyundai Tuscon at first glance.
  
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Beerboy12 on May 03, 2013

OMW Springbok radio hits compilation!!! ROTFL... It's a South African radio station that produced those LP's every year and got into MASSIVE trouble for their album covers that offended the deeply conservative, right wing, apartheid types.

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- Lorenzo on May 04, 2013
  
  The toe sucking poster caused a bit of a kerfuffle too, and was banned by several places that sold posters. The first run of those posters had a problem associated with camels, but was airbrushed out of later runs. The first runs are rare collector's items today.
  
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Petra on May 03, 2013

Ford sold nearly as many F-150s last month as Toyota's RAV4 has sold all year.

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