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August 2011 didn't turn out to be such a bad month for domestic automakers. GoodCarBadCar.net's U.S. Auto Sales By Brand post shows all nine Detroit Three brands (ten if you count Dodge and Ram separately) succeeded in posting higher sales volume this August than in August 2010. And how did they get there?
With trucks, of course. And in August, GM's two full-size pickup trucks out-sold the Ford F-Series. This doesn't happen every month. Two trucks are apparently not smarter than one, or at least they're not able to find more buyers than one.
August 2011 sales of the Ford F-Series were up 2.4%. The Chevrolet Silverado was up 8.1%. GMC Sierra sales in August improved at the greatest rate, however, up 13.8% to 13,244. This means General Motors full-sizers sold 50,076 times, 1281 more than the Ford F-Series range. GM fans would be keen to throw in another 1789 sales on behalf of the Chevrolet Avalanche.
The Dodge Ram, incidentally, was up 11.8% to 21,243 sales. And in the smaller truck war, Ford Ranger sales shot up 48.8% to 6192. That's 1872 sales better than what GM achieved with the Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon. Together, their sales rose 18% to 4320.
More importantly, however, the Ford F-Series, America's favourite truck, ended the first two-thirds of 2011 with 361,978 sales. GM's twins total was 346,176.
You'll see plenty more on truck sales when The Good Car Guy publishes the Top 10 Best-Selling Trucks In America post for August. In a few days there'll be a complete chart for every truck on sale in America, as well. Check out July's monthly truck sales totals here.
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GM's Trucks Beat Ford F-Series In August U.S. Sales
With trucks, of course. And in August, GM's two full-size pickup trucks out-sold the Ford F-Series. This doesn't happen every month. Two trucks are apparently not smarter than one, or at least they're not able to find more buyers than one.
August 2011 sales of the Ford F-Series were up 2.4%. The Chevrolet Silverado was up 8.1%. GMC Sierra sales in August improved at the greatest rate, however, up 13.8% to 13,244. This means General Motors full-sizers sold 50,076 times, 1281 more than the Ford F-Series range. GM fans would be keen to throw in another 1789 sales on behalf of the Chevrolet Avalanche.
The Dodge Ram, incidentally, was up 11.8% to 21,243 sales. And in the smaller truck war, Ford Ranger sales shot up 48.8% to 6192. That's 1872 sales better than what GM achieved with the Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon. Together, their sales rose 18% to 4320.
More importantly, however, the Ford F-Series, America's favourite truck, ended the first two-thirds of 2011 with 361,978 sales. GM's twins total was 346,176.
You'll see plenty more on truck sales when The Good Car Guy publishes the Top 10 Best-Selling Trucks In America post for August. In a few days there'll be a complete chart for every truck on sale in America, as well. Check out July's monthly truck sales totals here.
- Top 10 Best-selling Trucks In America - September 2011
For the second month in a row, the Ford F-Series, America's best-selling truck nameplate, succumbed to the force of GM's twins, the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra. Silverado sales shot through the roof, up 36% in September 2011. It wasn't...
- Truck Sales In America - August 2011
84% of the pickup trucks sold in the United States in August were full-size behemoths capable of driving over the hood of your midsize sedan. That may be an exaggeration. The "hood of your sedan" part; not the 84% figure. 85% of all the pickup trucks...
- Top 10 Best-selling Trucks In Canada - August 2011
Ford F-Series sales slid 8% in August but the Ford's year-to-date lead over its closest rival expanded by 3855 sales to 22,301. In other words, the Ford's lead over the number two truck is about equal to the total sales put together by the Ford...
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Sales reports for July 2011 had half the pickups on this best-selling trucks list - and it was the same group of ten trucks in the exact same order - reporting lower year-over-year volume than they had in July 2010. Though the order remains the same,...
- Top 5 Best-selling Trucks In Canada - August 2010
65,975 F-Series pickup trucks have been sold by Ford Motor Company so far this year. That's almost 11,000 truck sales ahead of last year's eight-month pace. A 19.9% improvement ain't bad, particularly when you consider that 2009's eight-month...