U.S. Auto Sales By Brand - 2011 Year End

GoodCarBadCar has finished entering figures in the monthly recap of auto sales by brand in the United States. What you'll see below are the 2011 numbers - that's all twelve months, the full year, the whole shebang.  

Ford was the best-selling auto brand in America in 2011, finishing the year more than 280,000 sales ahead of Chevrolet. Toyota had its thoroughly documented struggles through most of the year but delivered some good results at the end of 2011 - the Camry was far and away America's best-selling car... again. Fiat sold 19,769 500s. That's not 50,000, as Fiat had desired, but it's not much lower than the 25K many analysts would have predicted. 

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Is Mercedes-Benz America's best-selling luxury brand? People have no problem considering the Ford Transit Connect, GMC Savana, and Nissan NV part of the Ford, GMC, and Nissan families, but when it comes to Mercedes-Benz, the Sprinter doesn't seem to fit. Once you subtract the Sprinter (16,577 sales in 2011, more than enough to exceed the 13,800-unit gap) from Mercedes-Benz's total, BMW sold more luxury vehicles in America than Mercedes did in 2011. There's no arguing that fact. Undoubtedly, both sold more vehicles than the usual champion, Lexus.

SUV/Truck/Crossover-only brands - that's Jeep, GMC, and Land Rover, finished in that very order, Jeep 21,363 sales ahead of GMC. Buick was not able to beat Lexus, alas.  Speaking of Jeep, no brand could touch its headline-grabbing year-over-year increase of 44%. Kia, at 36.3%, didn't fare too badly, thank-you very much. Mitsubishi's 41.9% improvement was brought to bear mainly in the earlier parts of 2011. On the flip side, the now-defunct Saab (it is dead, isn't it?) slid 16%, worse even than Lexus's 13.4% drop.

Updated 01.05.2012 @ 1:44 PM AST - all automakers reporting

Rank	Automaker	2011 Year End	2010 Year End	% Change
#1	Ford	2,057,210	1,755,583	+ 17.4%
#2	Chevrolet	1,775,812	1,565,632	+ 13.4%
#3	Toyota	1,396,838	1,488,588	- 6.2%
#4	Honda	1,023,986	1,096,874	- 6.6%
#5	Nissan	944,073	805,159	+ 17.3%
#6	Dodge/Ram	708,650	596,627	+ 18.8%
#7	Hyundai	645,691	538,228	+ 20.0%
#8	Kia	485,492	356,268	+ 36.3%
#9	Jeep	419,349	291,138	+ 44.0%
#10	GMC	397,986	334,981	+ 18.8%
#11	Volkswagen	324,402	256,830	+ 26.3%
#12	Subaru	266,989	263,820	+ 1.2%
#13	Mercedes-Benz	261,808	225,007	+ 16.4%
#14	Mazda	250,426	229,566	+ 9.1%
#15	BMW	247,907	220,113	+ 12.6%
#16	Chrysler	221,346	197,446	+ 12.1%
#17	Lexus	198,552	229,329	- 13.4%
#18	Buick	177,633	155,389	+ 14.3%
#19	Cadillac	152,389	146,925	+ 3.7%
#20	Acura	123,299	133,606	- 7.7%
#21	Audi	117,561	101,629	+ 15.7%
#22	Infiniti	98,461	103,411	- 4.8%
#23	Lincoln	85,643	85,828	- 0.2%
#24	Mitsubishi	79,020	55,683	+ 41.9%
#25	Volvo	67,240	53,948	+ 24.6%
#26	Mini	57,511	45,644	+ 26.0%
#27	Scion	49,271	45,678	+ 7.9%
#28	Land Rover	38,099	31,864	+ 19.6%
#29	Porsche	29,023	25,320	+ 14.6%
#30	Suzuki	26,618	23,994	+ 10.9%
#31	Fiat	19,769	-----	-----
#32	Jaguar	12,276	13,340	- 8.0%
#33	Saab	5610	4837	+ 16.0%
#34	smart	5208	5927	- 12.1%
#35	Maserati	2321	1897	+ 22.4%
#36	Bentley	1877	1430	+ 31.3%

Source: Automakers, Automotive News Data Center & @CountingCars


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