Best Selling Cars Around The Globe: What Cars Americans Bought in 2001

How is the new Focus not as competitive as the original? The original Focus had only one thing that stood-out - very good suspension. The new Focus packs a lot of performance features, IMO it is a very competitive compact.

If we look at individual classes, Ford is very competitive. F-Series, Mustang, the new Fusion, Focus, Explorer, Escape, do I need to continue?

@cdakost The Edge sells well too.

I agree with you CJinSD and I am a Ford fan. But let me ask, and I am not trying to be a jerk, what trucks do you like? Cars? etc.

@cdakost The Mustang is the 47th best selling car. The formerly #3 Explorer is now #22. Ford went from having the #1, #3, #6, #9 and #10 best sellers to having #1 and #10. Toyota went from having #5 to having #2 and #7. Honda added #5 while maintaining #4 and #8. Nissan now has a car in the top 10. GM's sole entry fell from #2 to #3, and full sized trucks are going to total far fewer than a decade ago. Ford will be lucky to sell 600,000 F-series trucks this year. Even Chrysler managed to sink on the best seller board, their only entry going from 7th to 9th.

@Rada The old one was the number two seller in its class. The new one has fallen to a distant third.

@TomHend Were I to buy a pickup, it would be a Toyota. I have many friends with good Tacoma experiences, and the Tundra seems like a much better value than the various domestics. Besides, if Toyota does make a mistake with their trucks, like using UAW frames, they can afford to fix it. If Ford or GM make a mistake on their trucks, they have to fight the customers to the death. Profitability of full sized trucks is all that keeps their lights on. As for cars, I was really happy with our Honda and Acura purchases, but I'm going to take a wait and see approach now that Honda is switching the Accord to DI and CVTs. Fortunately, I've got three fairly low mileage K-series powered vehicles to tide me over. If all else fails, I'll get a cheap lease on something with good dealer service. My Audi dealer provides good service and loaners, but he is too far away for me to want another one.

Wow. People in Delaware booed because they were in Toyota trucks? I grew up in Virginia, and acceptance of little Toyota trucks seemed pretty much complete even in the '80s. Flag-waving blue-collar guys loved them as much as small business owners. It is hard to believe that we've regressed so much. My business partner and I looked at trucks a few months ago. He wanted to look at all of them, although I don't think we got as far as looking at Dodge and he'd had a Nissan Titan in the past. We had specific requirements that were apparently outside of the volume configuration range. Ford and Chevy dealers had zero out of about 250 pickups in stock that met our requirements and the Chevy dealer expressed no interest in doing anything to change that. He'd rather hammer us into a truck we had no use for than try to get one with the long bed. The Ford dealer was willing to look at order books while telling us we should take something from stock that wouldn't carry our payload. The Toyota dealer had people waiting for Tundras to be unloaded and washed, but he was still willing to get one configured like we wanted. He even had a couple long beds in various stages of order or delivery. We didn't end up getting one as an existing vehicle we had got pushed into full time work duty instead, but we still might buy a Tundra soon.

@CJinSD GM was building cars in Wilmington DE until 2009. (Fisker has since taken over that plant.)

@CJinSD .....Wow. People in Delaware booed because they were in Toyota trucks?.... Yup, as ignorant as when they booed Michelle Obama...Ignorance runs deep and I am a NASCAR fan.