Chart Of The Day: Here's How Jeep Reported An All-Time Monthly U.S. Sales Record In May 2015

Timothy Cain
by Timothy Cain

Four out of every ten new vehicles sold in May 2015 in the United States by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles were Jeeps, ten years after Jeep accounted for just 20% of Chrysler Group’s U.S. sales.

The automaker’s 4% year-over-year improvement was powered in large part by Jeep’s 13% gain. FCA volume improved by 8,000 units despite a 58% decrease in minivan volume. How’d they do it?

FCA’s midsize car volume more than doubled, Ram sales rose 12% (including an 8% pickup improvement), and Jeep volume jumped 13% to an all-time high of 79,652 U.S. sales with nearly across-the-board increases.

That 13% Jeep jump represents a 9,449 unit increase for the brand, helped along by the Wrangler’s own all-time monthly record (and an increase of 3,089 sales compared with May 2014), another all-time record from the Cherokee, and improved Grand Cherokee and Patriot sales.

The Renegade contributed, too, with 4,416 May sales. Since March, 9,573 Renegades have been sold in America. Yet even without the Renegade, Jeep sales in May still broke the previous record set in April, and the record set before that, in March.

Timothy Cain is the founder of GoodCarBadCar.net, which obsesses over the free and frequent publication of U.S. and Canadian auto sales figures. Follow on Twitter @goodcarbadcar and on Facebook.

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  • Andy Andy on Jun 09, 2015

    The Renegade only sold as many as the Compass??? What's wrong with the person who actually buys a Compass? Maybe they're all rental cars.

    • Bball40dtw Bball40dtw on Jun 09, 2015

      Rental cars, and the Compass is way cheaper when on a dealer lot.

  • Blueflame6 Blueflame6 on Jun 09, 2015

    Renegade supplies are low, else they probably would have sold more. Plus they're only now getting around to producing vehicles with certain options like the MySky roof. I think you'll see much larger numbers a year from now. I'm interesting in buying one myself, but I'm holding off for the 16s. Patriot and Compass have been benefiting from large incentive programs. Seriously, you can get a screaming deal on a new Patriot right now... if you actually want one.

  • Ronnie Schreiber Ronnie Schreiber on Jun 09, 2015

    Why is the Compass still being made? It was a bad mistake to build both the Patriot and the Compass, they're in the same segment, and they've just continued the error. The money spent on the Compass could have gone into making the Patriot (and Caliber, built on the same platform) better. Yeah, I know that Trevor Creed didn't think that women would buy a real Jeep, hence the cute-ute Compass, but every time I see a Compass I wonder why it still exists.

    • Dal20402 Dal20402 on Jun 09, 2015

      At this point the cost of production is down to couch-cushion change, and rental car companies and finance-challenged customers will snap them up for cheap but profitable prices.

  • 28-Cars-Later 28-Cars-Later on Jun 09, 2015

    So Jeep is 40% of volume and Ram is maybe 20% or perhaps 30%? If FCA is essentially a two trick pony with a side of Hellcat I can see why Sergio is looking to merge (or be sold).

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    • Hummer Hummer on Jun 09, 2015

      @dal20402 "subtlety is to a Hummer driver (sorry, couldn’t resist)." Let's just say I surprise everyone I meet when they find out what I drive-I've been told it was completely unexpected, but that childish grin I get everyday after almost 13 years, makes it worth it. No offense taken. The Hemi has more power than the 5.3l and its MPG is right on the silverados tail-coats. The truck offers superior long term reliability(whether real or imagined) than any of Ford ecoboosts. And above and beyond everything, it's the cheapest of all of them. The Grand Cherokee does fine for a semi-luxury HD crossover. The Cherokee with the 4 cyclinder is fine. If your arguing that the Real world mileage doesn't match up, that's aside the point, the numbers that matter to Cafe are on the window, not the real world. The explorer for example gets 18-19 in the real world, obviously no better than its BOF version, but playing the numbers game is the more important task here.

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