Top 25 Best-Selling Cars In America - 2011 Year End

What goes up must come down, and the Honda Civic surely has. At the end of 2010, the Civic was America's fourth-best-selling car. With a 15% decline in volume, the Civic fell to eighth in 2011. Ahead of the Civic are two direct rivals, the Chevrolet Cruze and Toyota Corolla, as well as five midsize sedans, including last year's eighth-placed car, Hyundai's Sonata. Sonata sales jumped 15% in 2011.

In fact, the only car on this list to fall harder than the Civic was another Honda, the Accord. Sales of Honda's midsizer slid 19% and the Accord dropped from second to third, making way for the Nissan Altima.

Though the Altima jumped up from fifth, top spot was still a long ways off. The Toyota Camry was once again the best-selling car in America, 39,529 sales ahead of the Altima. Camry sales slid 6% in 2011 but finished the year with a 7% jump in December.


The list is now complete with entries from Mercedes-Benz, the C-Class, and BMW, the 3-Series. Though sales of BMW's iconic sedan/coupe/convertible/wagon family were down the year before the car was being replaced, the 3-Series remained exceedingly healthy, out-selling upstart mainstream alternatives like the Chrysler 200 and Kia Optima and seeing off the C-Class and other direct rivals, by some margin, at the same time.

These are the 25 best-selling cars in America for 2011. Check out last year's top sellers here.

Finalized 01.05.2012 @ 12:17 PM AST

Rank	Best-Selling Car	2011	2010	% Change
#1	Toyota Camry	308,510	327,804	- 5.9%
#2	Nissan Altima	268,981	229,263	+ 17.3%
#3	Honda Accord	253,599	311,381	- 18.6%
#4	Ford Fusion	248,067	219,219	+ 13.2%
#5	Toyota Corolla/Matrix	240,259	266,082	- 9.7%
#6	Chevrolet Cruze	231,732	24,495	+ 846%
#7	Hyundai Sonata	225,961	196,623	+ 14.9%
#8	Honda Civic	221,235	260,218	- 15.0%
#9	Chevrolet Malibu	204,808	198,770	+ 3.0%
#10	Hyundai Elantra	186,361	132,246	+ 40.9%
#11	Volkswagen Jetta	177,360	123,213	+ 43.9%
#12	Ford Focus	175,717	172,421	+ 1.9%
#13	Chevrolet Impala	171,434	172,078	- 0.4%
#14	Toyota Prius	136,463	140,928	- 3.2%
#15	Nissan Sentra	114,991	94,065	+ 22.2%
#16	Subaru Outback	104,405	93,148	+ 12.1%
#17	Mazda 3	102,417	106,353	- 3.7%
#18	Kia Soul	102,267	67,110	+ 52.4%
#19	Nissan Versa	99,730	99,705	+ 0.03%
#20	BMW 3-Series	94,371	100,910	- 6.5%
#21	Chrysler 200	89,413	38,585	+ 132%
#22	Chevrolet Camaro	88,249	81,299	+ 8.5%
#23	Kia Optima	84,590	27,382	+ 209%
#24	Dodge Charger	70,089	75,397	- 7.0%
#25	Mercedes-Benz C-Class	69,314	58,785	+ 17.9%

Source: Manufacturers & ANDC 
Red font indicates year-over-year declining sales
Accord sales include sales of the Crosstour, a process which will cease for 2012. Chrysler 200 sales include and are compared with last year's Chrysler Sebring sales.

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