Top 10 Best-Selling Cars - The Short List

It’s hard to believe more than 50 percent of 2019 is already gone. Where does the time go?

I can’t answer that question, but I can fill you in on what the best-selling cars and trucks in the United States have been. As mentioned above, the year is half gone, which makes it a great time see which “cars” – including crossovers and trucks, of course – have proven to be the most popular in America through the month of June. So, without belaboring the point, here are the 10 best-selling models.

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Kicking this list off is the august Toyota Corolla. For 50-plus years across 12 generations, more than 43 million examples of this small car have been sold around the globe. Deliveries in the U.S. for the first half of 2019 are, understandably, slightly less impressive. Still, dealerships pushed out nearly 153,000 examples, meaning this small car outpaced super-popular vehicles like the Jeep Wrangler, Toyota Tacoma and even Honda Accord.

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But moving along, besting even that Honda’s showroom performance is a crossover from Chevrolet. In the first half of 2019 the bow-tie brand sold more than 174,000 examples of its practical and surprisingly pervasive Equinox, an increase of more than 11 percent compared to the same time period last year. For reference, the once-popular Malibu sedan accounted for a mere 65,171 sales in the first half of 2019, a decline of nearly 15 percent.

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Next up, the Nissan Rogue and Rogue Sport. Yes, Nissan combines the sales of these different, though similarly named models, likely to gin up a higher overall figure. Toyota used to do exactly the same thing with its Corolla and Matrix. Anyway, more than 175,000 Rogues of various sort were delivered in the first half of 2019, enough to make this “nameplates,” plural, the Nissan brand’s top-selling “models” in the U.S., outpacing the second-place Sentra sedan by in excess of 65,000 units.

Moving along, Toyota stores across the land pushed out and astonishing 176,008 Camrys through the end of June. That means the Capital T is on track to deliver more than 350,000 examples by year’s end. The Camry has been the best-selling car in the United States for the last 16 years. I predict it will be 17 when it’s time to replace my paper calendar with a new one for 2020.

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But here’s a shocker, Ram is outselling the ‘Rado! FCA’s in-house truck division is blowing the doors off these days. Through June, dealers have delivered nearly 300,000 light- and heavy-duty rigs. That’s a tremendous showing for what was, not that long ago, something of an underdog brand. It just goes to show you what can happen when you offer innovative features and segment-leading interiors.

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But topping even Ram’s strong showroom performance, and by a wide margin, was the Ford F-Series at the number one vehicle on this list of the top 10 best selling cars. This diverse range of pickups continues to sell in practically inconceivable numbers. Just short of 450,000 examples were moved through June of this year, an astounding performance, one that puts Dearborn on track to deliver nearly 897,000 trucks for all of 2019. That’s a huge number, but slightly behind what they did in 2018 when sales hit 1.075 million

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