Top 20 Best-Selling Cars In America - August 2011

The Toyota Camry retained its title of America's favourite car in August 2011 as no rival came within 7000 sales of the leader. Toyota's 2012 Camry recently debuted, but it doesn't appear as though many buyers considered waiting. The Toyota brand was down 13.6% but Camry sales fell just 1.9%. 

Only six of August's Top 20 Best-Selling Cars In America wore domestic badges. Their leader? The Chevrolet Cruze - there are four Cobalt sales built in to the August total - was far and away America's best-selling American car last month while also standing out as America's most popular compact car. Chevrolet compact sales nearly quadrupled compared with August of last year.

Speaking of American cars, enter the Chrysler 200. Its year-to-date total includes some Sebrings, too, and compared with the Sebring's output last August, sales of Chrysler's midsize sedan and convertible jumped 141.5%.

The Honda Accord no longer includes the awful Crosstour crossover. The Crosstour lives on, just without the Accord nomenclature. While this doesn't affect the Accord's year-over-year change, it will make it that much harder for the Accord to be America's best-selling car. The Crosstour found 1422 buyers in August. On that note, 1897 of the Volkswagen Jetta's 14,500 sales are actually Jetta SportWagens, Golf Wagons by any other name.

America's best-selling car trailed America's best-selling truck by 18,790 sales in August. That's nothing unusual. But to Toyota's credit, just under 3% of America's new vehicle purchases went the Camry's way in August. 

Rank	Car	Status	August 2011	August 2010	Year-To-Date
#1	Toyota Camry	↔	30,185	30,764	204,670
#2	Nissan Altima	↑	23,016	18,491	176,198
#3	Chevrolet Cruze/Cobalt	↓	21,811	5643	170,266
#4	Hyundai Sonata	↔	20,682	21,399	149,729
#5	Honda Accord	↑	18,439	22,506	162,375
#6	Ford Fusion	↔	17,925	17,082	168,929
#7	Chevrolet Malibu	↓	17,840	18,182	160,152
#8	Toyota Corolla/Matrix	↔	16,420	20,280	170,744
#9	Hyundai Elantra	↑	15,054	15,181	122,092
#10	Volkswagen Jetta	↓	14,500	10,667	121,965
#11	Ford Focus	↔	14,093	15,466	127,006
#12	Chevrolet Impala	↑	13,329	17,343	124,300
#13	Honda Civic	↓	12,083	22,803	153,660
#14	Chrysler 200	↑	10,861	4498	52,221
#15	Toyota Prius	↑	9491	11,799	83,918
#16	Mazda 3	↓	9424	9063	70,256
#17	BMW 3-Series	↓	8775	8339	61,277
#18	Nissan Versa	↑	8566	7453	59,811
#19	Nissan Sentra	↓	8061	8206	81,921
#20	Subaru Outback	↓	7572	8053	67,184

Source: Manufacturers

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