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Top 10 Best-Selling Trucks In America - 2011 Year End
The order rarely changes. The story is told the same way, over and over and over. The harmonies remain unchanged in this song. Ford's F-Series was the best-selling pickup truck in America in 2011. Sales were up 10.7% compared with 2010.Indeed, sales of most pickup trucks improved this year. The F-Series' main challenger, Chevy's Silverado, posted a 12.2% improvement. The Dodge Ram was up even more notably with a 22.6% gain. Ford's dying Ranger matched Nissan's Frontier with a 27.9% improvement, the greatest jump you'll see in the table below.Together, GM's three full-size trucks - the aforementioned Silverado, its GMC Sierra twin, and the Suburban-based Chevrolet Avalanche - found 584,388 buyers in 2011, 529 fewer than Ford did with its F-Series. Sales figures for all ten of America's most popular pickup trucks are in the table below. Dig a little deeper by accessing the dropdown menu in the top right of this page. Rank | Best-Selling Truck | 2011 | 2010 | % Change |
#1 | Ford F-Series | 584,917 | 528,349 | + 10.7% |
#2 | Chevrolet Silverado | 415,130 | 370,135 | + 12.2% |
#3 | Dodge Ram | 244,763 | 199,652 | + 22.6% |
#4 | GMC Sierra | 149,170 | 129,794 | + 14.9% |
#5 | Toyota Tacoma | 110,705 | 106,198 | + 4.2% |
#6 | Toyota Tundra | 82,908 | 93,309 | - 11.1% |
#7 | Ford Ranger | 70,832 | 55,364 | + 27.9% |
#8 | Nissan Frontier | 51,700 | 40,427 | + 27.9% |
#9 | Nissan Titan | 21,994 | 23,416 | - 6.1% |
#10 | Chevrolet Avalanche | 20,088 | 20,515 | - 2.1% |
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