Winning! These Are America's Best-Selling Cars, Trucks, SUVs, Vans, and Luxury Autos In 2016's First Half
We’ve reached the halfway marker. After new vehicle sales soared to record levels in calendar year 2015, the volume produced by automakers competing for market share in the United States continued to expand through the first six months of 2016.
Between January and June, the 30 most popular new vehicle nameplates in the United States generated half of all auto sales, leaving more than 250 other vehicles to fight over half the market. Many of those popular vehicles own a far greater chunk of the market than entire manufacturers. The top-selling Ford F-Series line of pickup trucks, for instance, outsells every auto brand aside from Toyota, Chevrolet, Nissan, Honda, Jeep, and Ford itself. The 30th-ranked vehicle, Subaru’s Outback, outsells whole mid-tier premium brands such as Cadillac, Infiniti, Lincoln, and Jaguar-Land Rover.
In other words, popular vehicles are very popular indeed.
These are the most popular of the popular, the podium finishers in five broad categories through the first half of 2016.
Chevrolet Silverado | -1% | 273,652
Ram P/U | +9% | 231,405
CARS
Honda Civic | +20% | 189,840
Toyota Corolla | -4% | 182,193
SUVs & CROSSOVERS
Honda CR-V | -2% | 159,075
Ford Escape | +6% | 155,378
VANS
Dodge Grand Caravan | +94% | 71,523
Toyota Sienna | -4% | 68,225
PREMIUM BRAND AUTOS
Mercedes-Benz C-Class | -14% | 37,305
BMW 3 Series | -23% | 32,976
[Images courtesy of automakers; graph by Timothy Cain]
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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Why bicycles are not included in article? It is now the preferred type of transportation in our area. You guys talk only about trucks. Whats so hot about them? I cannot get it.