It’s a well-known story. Consumers across America are turning away from cars and toward SUVs and crossovers. That means car sales are falling; the car category’s share of the overall market is decreasing.
And yet in July, compact car sales increased and midsize car sales improved.
Full-size, volume brand cars, on the other hand, took a 14% dive. A loss of 6388 sales was tempered only by modest increases from the two FCA cars – the Chrysler 300 and Dodge Charger – and a miniscule increase from the low-volume Chevrolet SS.
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In fact, sales of the 300 and SS are still declining on year-to-date terms. The Charger’s 2% year-to-date increase translates to just 1276 extra sales compared with the first 58% of 2014. The best-selling Chevrolet Impala? July volume dropped by 15%; year-to-date sales are down 25%, a 21,908-unit decrease.
You can click any model name in the tables below to find historical monthly and yearly U.S. auto sales data. You can also select a make and model at GCBC’s Sales Stats page. This table is now sortable, so you can rank large cars any which way you like. Suggestions on how GCBC should break down segments can be passed on through the Contact page.
Source: Automakers * Hyundai USA, not GoodCarBadCar, chooses to combine sales figures for the Genesis sedan and Genesis Coupe, forcing us to include the Genesis with these volume-brand cars on pricing grounds before we even get to the “brand status” issue. GCBC isn’t here to break down segments, an impossible task for any group, but to display sales data for the sake of comparison. The more ways sales data can be displayed, the better. You can always find the sales results for EVERY vehicle and form your own competitive sets by using the All Vehicle Rankings posts.