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Top three in the US are trucks
For F Series tops the sales charts for the 35th yearThe three top-selling vehicles in the America are utes – or as the yanks call them, pick-up trucks.
Topping the sales charts with an incredible 820,799 was the Ford F-150 (up 5.2 per cent on the previous year). Next was the Chevrolet Silverado with 574,876 which was 4.3 per cent down on 2015 sales. In third position came the RAM which we tested here in Aus recently with 489,418 sales which was 8.7 per cent up on the previous year.
That amounts to nearly two million utes in one year! Ford sells better than one F Series ute every minute of every day and has done for all of this century.
It’s not until fourth place on the U.S. sales charts that we see a passenger car and that’s a Toyota Camry, which is followed by a Honda Civic rounding out the top five.
But it’s not just the U.S. that’s having a love affair with the ute. For the first time this year, the Toyota HiLux was the biggest selling vehicle in Australia
A utility also featured in fourth position on the Aussie sales chart, with Ford’s Ranger mixing it among a small-car-heavy fleet, while Mitsubishi’s Triton finished ninth. Overall, light commercial vehicles held 18.5 per cent of the Australian market in 2016, up from 17.4 per cent the previous year.
FCAI chief executive Tony Weber tipped another possible record in 2017, with little sign of slowing sales.
"The growth, as witnessed in 2016 and appears certain to continue in 2017, is in SUVs and light commercial vehicles, particularly dual cab utilities," he said.
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Written byGeoff Middleton
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