Top 10 Best-Selling Cars: July 2015 - Cars.com News
After months of unremarkable sales, full-size pickup sales jumped 12 percent in July as truck shoppers drove every single player — even the outgoing Nissan Titan — to gains. In some cases they were huge: GM's Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra both posted double-digit increases, and the 'Rado gained 33. 9 percent despite lower inventory and no big incentives push. The Ford F-Series, meanwhile, snapped a five-month streak of year-over-year losses, too, to end July up 4. 8 percent. Midsize pickups and nonluxury subcompact SUVs continued to climb, with the pickups gaining 52. 5 percent and the SUVs nearly doubling their sales. Subcompact SUVs have four new players, with a fifth, the Mazda CX-3, going on sale this month. Meanwhile, conventional compact SUVs had a modest month (up 5. 2 percent) despite gas costing 85 cents less per gallon today versus a year ago. That's about even with the industry's 5. 4 percent sales gain with the largest seven automakers reporting, and it represents a leveling-off from the compact-SUV boom in recent months. Perhaps SUV shoppers are looking elsewhere: Subcompact models are booming, but midsize SUVs and large, three-row crossovers (all. Source: www.cars.com
