Car Sales By Brand USA : 2014 (Nameplate)

Over 750,000 F-Series trucks were sold in 2014. Big is good

When you see the US chart the colour coding shows how US and Asian brands dominate. European makes struggle to get into serious volumes. Of course, among premium marques, they are right up there, but unlike Europe, it is mainstream cars that predominate.

Ford is the strongest nameplate, with Chevrolet not too far back. Toyota was top in 2008 and '09 and would like to get back there. Nissan had a big increase for a larger brand, 137,600 in unit sales. Jeep to sold an extra 201,900 cars and RAM gained 101,300 sales. Meanwhile VW dropped 40,734 sales.

The best selling car in the US, The Toyota Camry, with 428,600 sales

Further down, I wonder why Toyota persists with the Scion brand. Maserati made the most of new models, selling over 1,400 in December alone. With fuel prices down, Tesla will have it's work cut out trying to sell cars in 2015.

10	11	12	13	14	Make	2014	%	+/-
1	1	1	1	1	Ford	2,376,841	14.4%	-1%
2	2	2	2	2	Chevrolet	2,033,442	12.3%	4%
3	3	3	3	3	Toyota	2,004,373	12.1%	6%
4	4	4	4	4	Honda	1,373,029	8.3%	1%
5	5	5	5	5	Nissan	1,269,565	7.7%	12%
6	6	6	6	6	Hyundai	725,718	4.4%	1%
10	9	9	9	7	Jeep	692,348	4.2%	41%
8	7	7	8	8	Kia	580,234	3.5%	8%
7	8	8	7	9	Dodge	574,155	3.5%	-4%
11	12	12	11	10	Subaru	513,693	3.1%	21%
9	10	11	10	11	GMC	501,853	3.0%	11%
17	14	14	13	12	Ram	469,139	2.8%	28%
12	11	10	12	13	VW	366,970	2.2%	-10%
15	13	15	14	14	Mercedes	356,136	2.2%	7%
16	16	16	15	15	BMW	339,738	2.1%	10%
14	18	18	18	16	Lexus	311,389	1.9%	14%
18	17	13	16	17	Chrysler	308,785	1.9%	2%
13	15	17	17	18	Mazda	305,801	1.9%	8%
19	19	19	19	19	Buick	228,963	1.4%	11%
23	22	22	22	20	Audi	182,011	1.1%	15%
20	20	21	20	21	Cadillac	170,750	1.0%	-6%
21	21	20	21	22	Acura	167,843	1.0%	1%
22	23	23	23	23	Infiniti	117,330	0.7%	1%
25	24	24	24	24	Lincoln	94,474	0.6%	16%
26	25	28	27	25	Mitsubishi	77,643	0.5%	25%
28	28	25	25	26	Scion	58,009	0.4%	-15%
27	26	26	28	27	Volvo	56,366	0.3%	-8%
29	27	27	26	28	MINI	56,112	0.3%	-16%
30	29	30	29	29	Land Rover	51,465	0.3%	3%
31	30	31	31	30	Porsche	47,007	0.3%	11%
-	32	29	30	31	Fiat	46,121	0.3%	7%
43	42	38	32	32	Tesla	18,750	0.1%	-3%
33	33	33	33	33	Jaguar	15,773	0.1%	-7%
38	36	35	36	34	Maserati	12,943	0.1%	171%
35	35	34	34	35	smart	10,453	0.1%	13%
40	37	36	37	36	Bentley	3,003		5%
39	38	37	38	37	Ferrari	2,145		4%
44	40	42	41	38	Rolls Royce	805		71%
45	41	41	40	39	Lamborghini	736		7%
-	-	-	-	40	Alfa Romeo	91		n/a
					Total	16,522,002		6%

Data source: Goodcarbadcar.