The Chevrolet Cavalier is the best-selling car in the US in 1984. New light vehicles in the US score a second consecutive double-digit gain in 1984 at +17.6% to 14.483.141 units including 10.323.695 cars (+12.8%) and 4.159.446 trucks (+31.5%). This is the largest annual volume since 1978 (15.4m), the largest…
The Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme is the #1 car in the US in 1983. The 1980-1982 recession is now all but a bad memory for US new light vehicle sales, soaring 16.8% in 1983 to 12.311.516 units including 9.148.038 cars (+15%) and 3.163.478 trucks (+22.5%). The Ford F-Series celebrates a second…
1982 Ford F-Series In 1982 the U.S. new light vehicle market is in recession, down -2.2% to 10.538.362 units. Cars (-6.3%) are solely responsible for this decline at 7.956.460 units just as trucks soar 12.8% to 2.581.902. This is the lowest annual volume since 1970 (10.2m) after a peak of…
VW Rabbit Once again we have a discrepancy in the #1 vehicle in the U.S. for 1981: Car and Driver places the Oldsmobile Cutlass in the lead with 454.188 sales (-3%) while other records don't even have that nameplate in the Top 10 and instead crown the Chevrolet Chevette with…
1980-1981 Oldsmobile Cutlass Calais There is conflicting information about the best-selling model in the US in 1980. Car and Driver affirms the Oldsmobile Cutlass is on top of the overall US models ranking with 469.573 sales. Another source places the Chevrolet Citation in pole position with 374.706 sales just above…
Chevrolet Chevette The Chevrolet Impala/Caprice enjoys its third consecutive year atop the American ranking with almost 450,000 sales, down 28%, while the Oldsmobile Cutlass hangs onto its 2nd place for the third year in a row also, down just 1% to just over 400.000 units. Note Car and Driver has…
Chevrolet Caprice Second year of reign for the Chevrolet Impala/Caprice, still at a very high level with over 620,000 units, down just 5%. The Oldsmobile Cutlass/Supreme drops by 1% and keeps the 2nd place at over 520,000 above the Ford Fairmont. The Fairmont earns the title of 'best-selling new car…
Chevrolet Impala/Caprice * Click on the title for the Top 10 best-selling models - Thanks to Adam for the data! * After two years of Oldsmobile domination, the Chevrolet Impala/Caprice takes advantage of its downsizing to become America's best-selling vehicle and passenger car with a whopping 657,151 sales, up 45% on 1976. The…
Oldsmobile Cutlass S * Click on the title for the Top 10 best-selling models - many thanks to Adam for the data! * Excellent year for passenger car sales in the USA, with 7 of the 10 best-selling models up more than 30% year-on-year. The Oldsmobile Cutlass keeps the title of best-selling…
Oldsmobile Cutlass * See 'Read more' for the Top 80 best-selling models! Thanks DC for the data * We continue to travel through time to land in the USA in 1975. I can share with you the 80 best-selling American passenger cars for that year: the Oldsmobile Cutlass is up…
Ford Pinto * See 'Read more' for the Top 80 best-selling models! Thanks DC for the data * Thanks to DC and www.autoweek.nl, I am able to share with you the Top 80 best-selling American passenger cars in 1974 (no imports sorry). Launched in 1970 to counter the success of…
1971 Chevrolet Vega While going through old issues of Wheels Magazine at the Sydney State Library I fell upon some info on the US car market in 1972: then the VW Beetle's domination of the small car segment was being threatened by the new Chevrolet Vega... Despite fire-risk carburettor and…
1965 Chevrolet Impala I only have patchy data for this period in the US so if you have access to detailed figures please make sure to get in touch! From 1960 to 1970, one model dominated car sales in America: the Chevrolet Impala. In 1965 the Impala sold 1,074,925 units,…
* See more info about the Ford Model A by clicking on the title! * While looking for pictures online today I came across production figures for the Ford Model A, the successor to the Model T. And they are phenomenal, to a point where it is safe to say…
1909 Ford Model T A site like BestSellingCars would not exist were it not for the Ford Model T. Tin Lizzie, as it was fondly known, is the first car in the automobile history to be mass-produced, making the automobile affordable and defining the direction of the automobile industry as we…