Top 10 Best Selling Vehicles of 2011
The sales have been tallied and the numbers are finally in. The list of the Top 10 best selling vehicles in the U.S. has now been released lots of familiar faces and a few surprises – starting with number 10, the Chevrolet Cruze. Sales for the new compact sedan total 231,732 units for the first full year on sale, with the Cruze launching late in 2010 and amassing just 24,495 sales in a short period of time then.
In 9th place is the Honda Accord. A familiar site on this list, the Accord managed just 235,625 total sales in 2011, down 16.6 percent from 282,530 units. Last year it placed 4th.
Like the Accord, sales of the Toyota Corolla were also down in 2011, dropping by almost 10 percent to 235,625 units, down from 266,082 units the year before. As a result, it slides from 5th place to 8th.
One of the biggest jumps goes to the RAM pickup brand. Selling a total of 244,763 trucks in 2011, sales were up 22.6 percent in 2011, helping it move from 10th to 7th place.
Ford’s mid-size Fusion sedan might not sell in quite the volume that the Accord does, but with a solid increase of 13 percent for a total of 248,067 units sold in 2011 it sits in 6th place and is one of four mid-size sedans on the Top 10 list.
The second of three Fords on the list and the one with the biggest gain of the bunch, the Escape compact crossover sits at 5th spot rising an incredible 33.1 percent in 2011 for a total of 254,293 units sold. Perhaps most impressive is that this vehicle is at the end of its life cycle.
With a solid gain of 17 percent over the previous year, Nissan sold 268,981 Altimas in 2011 making it the fourth best selling model in America last year and the second best selling car.
Showing just how popular the Camry is, even with a nearly six percent sales slump in 2011 Toyota managed to move 308,510 units. The result is that it remains the best selling car in America.
Up 12.2 percent on the year, sales of the Chevrolet Silverado pickup sit at 415,130 units for 2011, besting the RAM by a significant margin, but not nearly enough to compete with number one…
And the number one vehicle in America, by volume, for the 34th consecutive year is the Ford F Series truck. With an impressive 10.7 percent gain over 2010, the F-Series has a commanding lead, selling 584,917 units this past year, nearly double that of the best selling car.
With AutoGuide from its launch, Colum previously acted as Editor-in-Chief of Modified Luxury & Exotics magazine where he became a certifiable car snob driving supercars like the Koenigsegg CCX and racing down the autobahn in anything over 500 hp. He has won numerous automotive journalism awards including the Best Video Journalism Award in 2014 and 2015 from the Automotive Journalists Association of Canada (AJAC). Colum founded Geared Content Studios, VerticalScope's in-house branded content division and works to find ways to integrate brands organically into content.
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Pretty much the norm except for Honda. Hopefully they can bounce back next year.
4 of the top 10 vehicles sold are trucks or cross over. The top 2 are trucks. What does it say about conservation and practicality when 3 of the 4 are pickups. They must be compensating for something.