USA November 2013: Jeep Cherokee lands at #35 in best November in 10 years

The Jeep Cherokee sold over 10,000 units for its first full month in market.

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If going through European car sales updates depresses you, I have one cure: follow the US market! It’s another euphoric score in November, up 9% year-on-year to 1.24 million units which brings the year-to-date total to 14.24 million, up 8% on 2012. But wait there’s more good news: according to Autonews, the industry annualised rate hit 16.4 million units in November, up 15.3 million a year earlier and the best SAAR since the 16.8 million hit in February 2007, 10 months before the recession hit the US market full frontal. Another feel-good stat: this month is the best November since 2003 and only 84,000 units shy of the industry’s best November ever – in 2001, when sales totaled 1.328 million…

The Toyota RAV4 is at its highest in the US in 3 years.

General Motors and Chrysler delivered the biggest year-on-year increases this month: GM sales are up 14% off the back of a 19% rise in volume to individual customers. GMC is up 20%, Chevrolet and Buick up 13% and Cadillac up 11%. With the new Jeep Cherokee being snapped up at over 10,000 units for its first full month in market, Chrysler Group sales are up 16% on November 2012, its 44th consecutive monthly advance. Jeep is up 30%, Ram up 25%, Chrysler up 12% and Dodge up 4% but Fiat is down 15%. For its part Ford is up 7%, with the F-Series above 60,000 units for the seventh straight month. In other carmakers news, Nissan, Hyundai, Subaru and Land Rover all set November volume records this month!

The 2014 model pushes the Kia Soul up 77% year-on-year this month.

Model-wise, great year-on-year gains inside the Top 50 include the Ford Fusion up 51% to #9, Toyota RAV4 up 56% to #12 (its highest ranking since October 2010), Chevrolet Malibu up 41% to #19, Chevrolet Impala up 22% to #21, Subaru Forester up 135% to #23, Kia Soul up 77% to #25, Nissan Sentra up 62% to #25 and the Chrysler Town & Country up 70% to #31. As described above, the Jeep Cherokee is up 166 spots on October to land directly at #35 with 10,169 sales.

The Nissan Maxima is knocking on the US Top 50’s door this month…

Further down, notice the Mercedes E-Class up 11 spots to #47 vs. #72 year-to-date, the Nissan Maxima up 32 to #54 vs. #84, the Infiniti Q50 almost slicing its October ranking in two to a best-ever #64 with 5,891 sales (its first time inside the US Top 100), Mercedes CLA Class down 21 to #97, the Mitsubishi Mirage and Ram ProMaster both breaking into the US Top 200 for the first time and for their second month in market at #175 (+39) and #184 (+18) respectively and the Chevrolet SS going from one unit (#258) in October to 178 (#239) this month.

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