The top passenger cars sales in the USA over the first 9 months of 2017
- The US market fell 1.7% in the first nine months of 2017 compared to the first nine months of 2016. Deliveries were mainly in the light trucks (pickups, SUVs, minivans) category, which accounts for 64 % of sales this year (compared to 60% in 2016). Sales of passenger cars fell from 40% to 36% of sales over the same period.
- If we observe the top 20 sales of passenger cars by model, we see that Japanese manufacturers place six models in the top six places: two Honda, two Toyota and two Nissan.
- The Honda Civic (284,000 sales) surpassed the Toyota Camry (282,000 sales) and Honda Accord (251,000 sales), which had been leading the US PC market for years but was down in 2017, due to model renewal (transition between old and new generation). The Civic’s first place should therefore be only temporary. The Toyota Corolla (249,000 sales), Nissan Altima (200,000 sales) and Nissan Sentra (166,000 sales), down from last year, occupy the fourth, fifth and sixth places. The first purely American models (Ford Fusion and Chevrolet Cruze) are only seventh and eighth. They are still ahead of Hyundai and Kia, but this situation should only be temporary, since the two Korean manufacturers are doing their utmost to get closer to Japanese manufacturers in terms of volume in the US PC market. Only one FCA model (Dodge Charger) is currently in the top 20.
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