USA Car/Light Truck Sales By Nameplate : 2015

Over 780,000 of these behemoths (Ford F150) found homes in the USA in 2016

USA had an all time record for car/light truck sales for 2015, narrowly eclipsing the previous record in the year 2000. I say narrow as in percentage, because the number exceeded 150,000! However, for a large market that is a small difference.

The colours denote how well a brand did. Green is market gain, blue, increase but loss of share and yellow decrease. This reveals the top four did OK, that Nissan did well with such a percentage growth for such large sales (+81,855) and Jeep outstanding (+172,680). Both were easily record U.S. sales for each brand. FCA's joy over Jeep must be tempered with the less than stellar performance of Dodge. I guess if you add in Ram to Dodge as it used to be, then it doesn't look so bad.

VW one would have to think was affected by the diesel scandal, but it is not possible to quantify by how much. Mitsubishi had its best year since 2008, while Land Rovers sales dwarfed anything that had come before. Aston Martin and Lotus sales are estimates.

11	12	13	14	15	Brand	2015	%	+/-
1	1	1	1	1	Ford	2,501,855	14.3%	5.3%
2	2	2	2	2	Chevrolet	2,125,347	12.2%	4.5%
3	3	3	3	3	Toyota	2,098,545	12.0%	4.7%
4	4	4	4	4	Honda	1,409,386	8.1%	2.6%
5	5	5	5	5	Nissan	1,351,420	7.7%	6.4%
9	9	9	7	6	Jeep	865,028	5.0%	24.9%
6	6	6	6	7	Hyundai	761,710	4.4%	5.0%
7	7	8	8	8	Kia	625,818	3.6%	7.9%
12	12	11	10	9	Subaru	582,675	3.3%	13.4%
10	11	10	11	10	GMC	558,697	3.2%	11.3%
8	8	7	9	11	Dodge	517,153	3.0%	-9.9%
14	14	13	12	12	Ram	493,807	2.8%	5.3%
13	15	14	14	13	Mercedes	372,977	2.1%	4.7%
11	10	12	13	14	VW	349,440	2.0%	-4.8%
16	16	15	15	15	BMW	346,023	2.0%	1.8%
18	18	18	16	16	Lexus	344,601	2.0%	10.7%
17	13	16	17	17	Chrysler	324,846	1.9%	5.2%
15	17	17	18	18	Mazda	319,184	1.8%	4.4%
19	19	19	19	19	Buick	223,055	1.3%	-2.6%
22	22	22	20	20	Audi	202,202	1.2%	11.1%
21	20	21	22	21	Acura	177,165	1.0%	5.6%
20	21	20	21	22	Cadillac	175,267	1.0%	2.6%
23	23	23	23	23	Infiniti	133,498	0.8%	13.8%
24	24	24	24	24	Lincoln	101,227	0.6%	7.1%
25	28	27	25	25	Mitsubishi	95,342	0.5%	22.8%
29	30	29	29	26	Land Rover	70,582	0.4%	37.1%
26	26	28	27	27	Volvo	70,047	0.4%	24.3%
27	27	26	28	28	MINI	58,514	0.3%	4.3%
28	25	25	26	29	Scion	56,167	0.3%	-3.2%
30	31	31	30	30	Porsche	51,756	0.3%	10.1%
32	29	30	31	31	Fiat	42,410	0.2%	-8.0%
42	38	32	32	32	Tesla	23,732	0.1%	26.6%
33	33	33	33	33	Jaguar	14,466	0.1%	-8.3%
36	35	36	34	34	Maserati	11,697	0.1%	-9.6%
35	34	34	35	35	smart	7,484		-28.4%
37	36	37	36	36	Bentley	2,686		-10.6%
38	37	38	37	37	Ferrari	2,258		5.3%
41	41	40	40	38	Lamborghini	1,009		37.1%
39	39	39	38	39	Aston Martin	1,000		-10.9%
40	42	41	39	40	Rolls Royce	840		4.3%
-	-	-	42	41	Alfa Romeo	663		628.6%
44	43	42	41	42	Lotus	100		-36.3%
					Total	17,471,679		5.7%

Data source: Good Car Bad Car.

The best selling Land Rover, the Range Rover Sport with 21,459 sold