Pickup vans dominate America’s 10 best-selling autos of 2020

Look no additional than the automotive trade’s best-selling autos of final yr as proof of America’s love for pickup vans.

Led by vans from the Detroit automakers, pickups accounted for 5 of the trade’s 10 best-selling autos in 2020 regardless of their more and more increased costs and the coronavirus pandemic.

Ford Motor’s F-Collection truck retained its decades-long gross sales dominance, adopted by pickups from Common Motors and Fiat Chrysler. The three top-selling pickups accounted for about 13% of the 14.5 million autos estimated to have been offered final yr within the U.S.

“Pickup vans have been very profitable. They’ve marched by way of this pandemic so nicely,” Jessica Caldwell, government director of insights for auto analysis agency Edmunds, advised CNBC. “They’ve boosted up all of their respective firms. Notably the Detroit firms, they’ve stored enterprise afloat pretty nicely.”

As gross sales to industrial and different fleet prospects got here to a grinding halt throughout the coronavirus pandemic, automakers touted retail customers buying pickups as rapidly as they may produce them in 2020. The businesses are nonetheless making an attempt to resupply inventories following a roughly two-month shutdown of their North American crops final spring because of the coronavirus pandemic.

“It was astonishing. It was like pulling a rabbit out of a hat. I feel the automakers have been magicians mainly in promoting vans this yr,” stated Jeff Schuster, LMC Automotive president of the Americas. “It was a exceptional yr for vans.”

Ford’s F-Collection, which incorporates the F-150 and its bigger siblings, remained America’s best-selling automobile for the 39th straight yr and the trade’s top-selling truck for the 44th consecutive yr. GM’s Chevrolet Silverado regained its silver medal place after dropping to 3rd in 2019 behind Fiat Chrysler’s Ram pickup.

Newcomers to the 10 best-selling autos final yr included GM’s GMC Sierra in addition to the Toyota Tacoma, which outsold the Toyota Corolla compact automobile. Falling off the gross sales leaderboard in comparison with 2019 have been the Corolla and Nissan Rogue, which ranked sixth in 2019.

Here is the complete record of America’s 10 best-selling autos in 2020:

1. Ford F-Collection (Gross sales of 787,422 items, down 12.2% in comparison with 2019)

2. Chevrolet Silverado (594,094, up 3.2%)

3. Ram pickup (563,676, down 11%)

4. Toyota RAV4 (430,387, down 3.9%)

5. Honda CR-V (333,502, down 13.2%)

6. Toyota Camry (294,348, down 12.7%)

7. Chevrolet Equinox (270,994, down 21.7%)

8. Honda Civic (261,225, down 19.8%)

9. GMC Sierra (253,016, up 8.9%)

10. Toyota Tacoma (238,806, down 4%)