Chart Of The Day: The 25 Best-Selling Nameplates Of August

by Edward Niedermeyer

February 23rd, 2023 7:14 PM

Well, you’ve seen a complete chart of sales by manufacturer and brand… now it’s time for some nameplate results. Here are your top-25 best-selling nameplates for August 2011. And yes, the Honda Civic barely made the list…

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Dave M. on Sep 03, 2011

We're discussing nameplates, right? So Chevy and GMC are different nameplates. Thus separated.

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- Dynamic88 on Sep 03, 2011
  
  You're right, it's about nameplates. Sorry I took a slight detour into reality there.
  
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AJ on Sep 03, 2011

Way to go Jeep Wrangler! (Now we just need to work on them waving.)

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Golden2husky on Sep 03, 2011

The biggest surprise here is the continued success of the Escape. We have several at work (hybrids) and while I like them, they are nothing special. Interior materials are on the lower end of the scale. They have proven to be reliable which is always a plus, but what do they offer that the competition doesn't? All I can think of is that they look and feel a lot like a baby old school SUV. And maybe that is something that buyers like... Other items...I believe that if I had hauling needs, inclement weather ability (the pickups had no problem with most of the massive flooding from Irene) and could only afford one vehicle, I'd probably own a pickup, too. So I am not at all surprised at the sales numbers. I am curious as to how many miles a year end up on those trucks though. 25K a year means awfully big gas bills.

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- Rudiger on Sep 04, 2011
  The biggest surprise here is the continued success of the Escape...what do they offer that the competition doesn’t? Lower price. Yeah, the current Escape has been around since 2001 with only one facelift and lower-grade interior materials, but it's a solid, reliable design that, with big discounts / incentives, undercuts the competition by several grand. For someone of limited means, it's not a bad choice for a working CUV that gets good mpg. It's also one of the few CUVs remaining where a manual transmission is still available (albeit only on the base versions). Fleet buyers seem to love them. A major model change is upcoming for 2013.
  
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- Patrickj on Sep 04, 2011
  
  @rudiger I'd add generous head and shoulder room due to their boxiness, along with avoiding the often over-wrought styling of other CUVs. Given recent styling trends, I'm not sure being a decade behind the times is a bad thing.
  
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SCE to AUX on Sep 03, 2011

It's interesting that only 25 nameplates (470,567 by my math) comprise nearly 50% of all vehicle sales. And there's not a single 'enthusiast' vehicle among them.

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