New vehicle buyers registered 1.3 million cars, SUVs, crossovers, vans, and pickup trucks in November 2014, a 57,000-unit improvement compared with November 2013.
No volume brand accelerated at a faster rate in November than Ram, which shot up 31%. Scion sales, on the other hand, plunged 21%. Land Rover, Cadillac, Smart, Infiniti, and Jaguar all posted double-digit losses, as well. Ford is America’s top-selling auto brand, both in November and the first eleven months of 2014. With a 10% decline in F-Series sales last month, however, Ford was down 2.6%. Total GM sales are up 4.1% this year and rose 6.5% in November, spreading the manufacturer’s lead by 39,484 units to nearly 409,000 units.
As for premium brands, Mercedes-Benz claimed a broad victory in November but trails BMW by 1830 sales heading into 2014’s final month. Lexus, the third-ranked premium automaker, is almost 25,000 sales back of Mercedes-Benz, but the first 22 NXs were sold in November. We also saw the arrival last month of the Chevrolet City Express and Alfa Romeo 4C, both of which produced their first 24 sales. The Toyota Camry was America’s best-selling car; the Honda CR-V led all utility vehicles.
| Automaker | November 2014 | November 2013 | % Change | 2014 YTD | 2013 YTD | % Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Acura
|
14,857 | 14,559 | 2.0% | 150,034 | 149,685 | 0.2% |
|
Alfa Romeo
|
24 | — | — | 24 | — | — |
|
Audi
|
16,650 | 13,636 | 22.0% | 162,773 | 141,048 | 15.4% |
|
BMW
|
31,019 | 31,752 | -2.3% | 298,212 | 271,891 | 9.7% |
|
Buick
|
19,143 | 15,072 | 27.0% | 208,606 | 190,130 | 9.7% |
|
Cadillac
|
13,148 | 16,172 | -18.7% | 154,600 | 164,378 | -5.9% |
|
Chevrolet
|
149,673 | 145,089 | 3.2% | 1,848,504 | 1,793,632 | 3.1% |
|
Chrysler
|
27,243 | 21,024 | 29.6% | 277,855 | 282,222 | -1.5% |
|
Dodge
|
42,108 | 41,506 | 1.5% | 527,577 | 548,654 | -3.8% |
|
Fiat
|
3,111 | 3,075 | 1.2% | 42,337 | 39,491 | 7.2% |
| Ford | 178,221 | 182,978 | -2.6% | 2,167,162 | 2,194,934 | -1.3% |
|
GMC
|
43,854 | 35,727 | 22.7% | 448,815 | 407,781 | 10.1% |
|
Honda
|
106,957 | 101,948 | 4.9% | 1,253,557 | 1,240,372 | 1.1% |
|
Hyundai
|
53,672 | 56,005 | -4.2% | 661,211 | 657,778 | 0.5% |
|
Infiniti
|
11,398 | 13,152 | -13.3% | 105,323 | 103,223 | 2.0% |
|
Jaguar
|
1,253 | 1,446 | -13.3% | 14,090 | 15,408 | -8.6% |
|
Jeep
|
57,489 | 45,415 | 26.6% | 629,074 | 437,179 | 43.9% |
|
Kia
|
44,936 | 45,411 | -1.0% | 534,647 | 501,548 | 6.6% |
|
Land Rover
|
3,644 | 4,601 | -20.8% | 45,711 | 44,246 | 3.3% |
|
Lexus
|
27,472 | 25,611 | 7.3% | 271,510 | 239,090 | 13.6% |
|
Lincoln
|
8,113 | 6,727 | 20.6% | 84,784 | 73,710 | 15.0% |
|
Maserati
|
1,203 | 887 | 35.6% | 11,531 | 3,715 | 210% |
|
Mazda
|
21,242 | 20,754 | 2.4% | 280,993 | 260,982 | 7.7% |
|
Mercedes-Benz
|
34,578 | 34,376 | 0.6% | 296,382 | 279,501 | 6.0% |
|
Mercedes-Benz Sprinter
|
2,532 | 2,010 | 26.0% | 22,457 | 18,988 | 18.3% |
|
Total Mercedes-Benz
|
37,110 | 36,386 | 2.0% | 318,839 | 298,489 | 6.8% |
|
Mini
|
5,009 | 4,575 | 9.5% | 49,497 | 59,910 | -17.4% |
|
Mitsubishi
|
6534 | 6071 | 7.6% | 71,098 | 55,671 | 27.7% |
|
Nissan
|
91,790 | 93,376 | -1.7% | 1,164,254 | 1,035,439 | 12.4% |
|
Porsche
|
4,699 | 3,966 | 18.5% | 43,732 | 39,077 | 11.9% |
|
Ram
|
40,864 | 31,255 | 30.7% | 420,511 | 331,815 | 26.7% |
|
Scion
|
3,907 | 4,968 | -21.4% | 54,192 | 63,998 | -15.3% |
|
Smart
|
815 | 959 | -15.0% | 9,480 | 8,409 | 12.7% |
|
Subaru
|
45,273 | 36,621 | 23.6% | 463,770 | 384,511 | 20.6% |
|
Suzuki
|
— | — | — | — | 5,946 | -100% |
|
Toyota
|
151,967 | 147,465 | 3.1% | 1,833,012 | 1,742,111 | 5.2% |
|
Volkswagen
|
31,725 | 30,727 | 3.2% | 332,911 | 373,689 | -10.9% |
|
Volvo
|
3,623 | 4,233 | -14.4% | 51,446 | 56,345 | -8.7% |
|
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—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
|
BMW-Mini
|
36,028 | 36,327 | -0.8% | 347,709 | 331,801 | 4.8% |
|
Chrysler Group/FCA
|
170,839 | 142,275 | 20.1% | 1,897,378 | 1,639,361 | 15.7% |
|
Daimler
|
37,925 | 37,345 | 1.6% | 328,319 | 306,898 | 7.0% |
|
Ford Motor Company
|
186,334 | 189,705 | -1.8% | 2,251,946 | 2,268,644 | -0.7% |
|
General Motors
|
225,818 | 212,060 | 6.5% | 2,660,525 | 2,555,921 | 4.1% |
|
Honda Motor Company
|
121,814 | 116,507 | 4.6% | 1,403,591 | 1,390,057 | 1.0% |
|
Hyundai-Kia
|
98,608 | 101,416 | -2.8% | 1,195,858 | 1,159,326 | 3.2% |
|
Jaguar-Land Rover
|
4,897 | 6,047 | -19.0% | 59,801 | 59,654 | 0.2% |
|
Nissan Motor Company
|
103,188 | 106,528 | -3.1% | 1,269,577 | 1,138,662 | 11.5% |
|
Toyota Motor Corporation
|
183,346 | 178,044 | 3.0% | 2,158,714 | 2,045,199 |
5.6% |
|
Volkswagen Group *
|
53,387 | 48,652 | 9.7% | 542,007 | 556,336 | -2.6% |
|
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—
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—
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—
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—
|
|
Industry Total
|
1,302,655
|
1,245,189
|
4.6%
|
15,023,111
|
14,243,037
|
5.5% |
* Volkswagen Group includes sales figures for Audi, Bentley, Porsche, and Volkswagen brands
** Industry total includes Automotive News sales estimates for ultra-low-volume automakers and their 2200-unit (November) Tesla sales estimate.
Timothy Cain is the founder of GoodCarBadCar.net, which obsesses over the free and frequent publication of U.S. and Canadian auto sales figures.
There is no better time to buy that new car or truck than right now, and for the next two years!
Life is good!
Economic growth is strong, inflation remains low, stocks are at all time highs, unemployment is below 6%, nearly all our soldiers are home, and anyone can buy health insurance.
Thank you, Barack Obama!
^You forgot to mention petrol is getting cheaper.
It happened on his watch, He gets the credit for it.
Yes, thanks for bailing wall street out and leaving main street behind, thanks for destabilizing Iraq, and who stopped you from buying health insurance before? You sound like a malcontent.
All I can say in response to this is: smoke and mirrors.
Lincoln is up? I guess those Matthew McConaughey-hey ads are working…
The big looser, VW.
I think it less to do with McConaughey and more with the MKC he drives in the ads.
That might be Lincoln’s best product in a LONG time.
The Lincoln MKC is the right product at the right time, but I’m sure that the parodies of the McConaughey commercial on late-night television didn’t hurt sales.
IMHO that was some of Jim Carey’s best work in years.
the MKC sucks so it must be the image — or the deal
VW might not be a big loser, since their value brand is selling badly while their high margin status seeker sleds are selling better than ever.
FCA continues to kick a$$. They were only 16,000 unit behind Ford. The new 200 is picking up steam, and outsold the Malibu. Sergio seems to have the Midas touch.
“Sergio seems to have the Midas touch.”
Yes he does! We were very satisfied with the service we got from our 2012 Grand Cherokee and hope our grand daughter will continue to enjoy it for a long, long time (without problems).
I wish you would adopt me, lol. You always take good care of your family. They are a lucky bunch.
mjz, you are much too kind. I’m not the only one who does this. But the others who provide a leg up for their loved ones to help launch them may not have the same venues, like visiting ttac, that I do.
We had a really great experience with our 2012 Grand Cherokee. I have said so since day one. Others in our extended family were not so lucky with their 2014 Grand Cherokees.
For now. I fear it will be somewhat short-lived once customers realize FCA still hasn’t fixed their reliability problem.
What reliability problem are we talking here, exactly? The last Chrysler product that I sold ran for 178,000 miles and the only thing broken at the time of sale was the rear light switch. My current FCA product, admittedly, had a warranty repair. But it’s at 68,000 miles now with no new squacks.
Pete, our 2012 Grand Cherokee is at 65K+ and the only thing I had to do was top off the Electro-Hydraulic Power Steering Fluid Reservoir with some really hard to get Material Spec 11655 Silicone EHPS fluid. It’s not leaking. Don’t know where it goes.
But now we’re set up for maintaining the WK2 Grand Cherokees. My oldest son (my grand daughter’s father) owns a 2012 SRT8 Grand Cherokee and is moving back to my area after he retires this month from the Japanese Bank in LA where he works.
I have stocked up on Purolator oil filters, wipers (especially the back wiper), cabin air filters, etc. Thank you Amazon!
8= and 9-speed transmissions and various launch glitches with the Cherokee aren’t good. Didn’t FCA fire their quality control head last month for failing to meet goals?
What impressed me was the Promaster’s performance 3300 units without the Promaster City, Midas touch indeed.
The Promaster is an interesting product alternative to others in that class. Different, more efficient packaging and a huge array of configurations. I think we’ll see it’s upward trend continue as fleets begin to realize it exists.
Cadillac was down a whopping 19%. Outsold by Acura. Pathetic. New guy better watch out, the Cadillac dealers will be calling for his head on a platter soon. So how’s that decision NOT to cut Cadillac prices going for ya there, big guy?
The division is trying to shake its “discount luxury brand” aura, so it really doesn’t have any choice regarding prices at this point.
Better to be a failed luxury brand? Do people shopping for Cadillacs usually walk away if the price is too low? Has anyone ever thought that status seekers want to pay twice what anyone else thinks something is worth?
New Cadillac buyer: Check out my new CTS!
Coworker of NCB: Nice car, but I’d have gotten a Santa Fe for the money.
NCB: A Hyundai? I paid $65K for this thing!!
Coworker of NCB: Oh. That’s totally different then. Now I respect you.
I’m also guessing that the business case for the ATS and CTS only “worked” if Cadillac could charge BMW-level prices for cars aimed at BMW customers.
Whether a sufficient number of customers would pay BMW-level prices for a competing Cadillac was apparently glossed over…
Cadillac sales will continue to plummet if they continue to charge Mercedes/BMW level prices, with Acura/Infiniti level prestige.
Audi and Lexus didn’t build their brands up by selling their cars for Mercedes prices at first. They offered more for less. I don’t why Cadillac isn’t trying to do the same.
Go blame UAW. Hmmm, I just opened a can of worms.
Because the “More for Less” approach would leave its image perpetually stuck a few paces behind Acura.
Take a look at Lexus. It’s premium luxury, but nowhere near Mercedes-Benz or Audi.
To me, Cadillac’s predicament not to cut prices is going to be like J.C. Penney when they hired that Apple guy for 18 months and he got rid of discount coupons.
We know how that turned out. I’m not sure they’re any better off today, but at least they’re not Sears/K-mart.
Cadillac HAS to cut prices if they’re facing 100-day-plus inventories.
So jacking up the price on lackluster product is the solution? When you are not the top dog, your level of price should follow the level of product. When you own the market you can churn out a pile and nobody will care.
Holy crap, Jeep and Ram are really carrying FCA this year.
That’s not really any different from the pre-Daimler Chrysler Corporation, or even DaimlerChrysler.
Chrysler saw a big bump this month too. Overall FCA is doing really well; its not impossible that FCA could outsell Toyota in 2015.
Reminds me of the maitre’d in “The Pope of Greenwich Village” noting how many reservations they had for dinner: “Jeez, doesn’t anyone know how bad the food is?”
The 200 just had its 2nd-best month ever.
I’m curious to see the breakdown between retail and fleet sales right now though, although I am sure it is better than before.
I think the new 200 looks great, but I couldn’t help but notice that the same weekend that there was a small convention in town was the same weekend that I suddenly saw the new 200 all over the place…
LOL ! Mitsubishi is up 27.7 % YTD.
Jaysus, Subaru can do no wrong.
The blander they get, the more they sell.
Mazda could sadly learn something here. It’s tough being an enthusiast in a bumper-to-bumper traffic, driving is a chore, my car is an appliance, watch out for the speed camera, we need to increase ticket revenue, gas is too expensive, two-trillion in deferred road repair, my car insurance costs what, world.
Although all true, it’s not the whole story. For example, Subaru offers a stereo camera based safety system which offers some distinct advantages over the common radar-based and ultrasonic sensor systems. It’s quite nifty and demonstrates a certain engineering prowess that Mazda seems to be lacking, no matter now nice Skyactive engines get.
And Mazda seem to have engineered a great six speed transmission that is well regarded and as fuel efficient as a CVT. An engineering prowess that Subaru may not possess. I don`t think you can argue that Mazda does not have engineering prowess.
Skyactiv engines are just part of it.
Mazda sales have to do with poor dealership experience. The 3 and 6 also have a ridiculous amount of road noise.
Nothing bland about the STI
Sonata just had its best November in many years, and is on track to beat its 2013 sales.
Where’s the retraction of the ‘Sonata launch failure’ meme?
Also, the new Kia Sedona has really taken off, relatively speaking – 3538 units is its best month in many years. It’s finally more than noise on the minivan sales chart.
Was the launch seen as a failure? News to me.
As far as I can tell, the updated Sonata is seen as nice, capable, and quite competitive sedan that takes a somewhat unfortunate step back from the brave styling present in the last-gen. I think many were taken aback by the conservatism of the new model, but I didn’t see anyone proclaiming it a failed launch (perhaps I missed some articles on TTAC?).
I’ve driven a basic 4-cylinder. The interior is decent, the ride quality nice, but it is otherwise unexceptional.
Well. If you put enough cash on the hood you’ll sell more iron. Buick and GMC can attest to that.
Had someone not snapped up the fully loaded Verano turbo manual at a local dealer in a matter of hours, I might have been very tempted. 20% rebate off the top plus whatever you can negotiate.
‘20% rebate off the top plus whatever you can negotiate’
Only on the oldest 15% inventory in stock by the way. Many morons on the internet (not saying you) have quoted that incorrectly in the last week or so.
It actually was a great promotion. Lined up with the Black Friday consumer mindset.
Who else is GM going to market to? You’re as bad as the Cadillac woman that said, “everyone in New York is always just a little bit ahead of everyone else and we need to be the brand that stands for that.” GM customers have to be comfortable buying from a corporation that fails miserably had hiding its contempt for them.
Huh? Pretty much every OEM had a Black Friday promotion. Many will have a ‘December to Remember’ type play until the end of the year.
Was just commenting on the promotion I saw with Buick/GMC and how it was different from other promotions I’ve seen and seemed to work much like retail Black Friday stuff based on Buick/GMC numbers last month..
I see you are in your usual angry man mode. Relax dude.
Wow, Cadillac got stomped on not just by M-B and BMW but by Audi as well, the perennial distant third player of the German trio. That’s gotta hurt. How can that possibly be? Is it that Audi has a whole bunch of new products that people want to BUY (A3, S3, Q3, etc)? No way! Audi is cool, like Apple. It’s all branding. It’s the Audi “experience,” whatever that means.
Keep telling yourselves that guys. New York New York!
Scion continues to be a dead brand walking. Down 21-1/2% and didn’t even move 4,000 units.
FR-S down 25%, even the tC, which has been the one glimmer of light in the line up was down 19%.
The new Yaris is like the old Yaris – the only people buying are rental agencies (more than 50% fleet) and even they aren’t buying a lot of them – 634 units, down 7-1/2%.
Prius sales down 11% for the year.
Camry will once again break 400K units total (fleet/consumer) for the year.
I’m seeing the new Camry everywhere, mostly in SE and XSE guises. Quite frankly, I’m pretty much over the fake windowlette. I wish it weren’t there, but it’s not a dealbreaker. And it looks pretty good on the road, but maybe that’s because the 2015’s are all new and shiny.
Ironically, I did see a late-model Lexus ES 350 and a 2015 Camry side by side. From the rear, I almost can’t tell them apart.
Volvo will end the year badly, and below what I consider subsistence level (5000 cars/month) for a standalone mfr (although higher margins may allow for lower volume).
Mitsubishi looks like they’ve bought some time, but they still have a very long way to go to look healthy.
Mazda might break 300k this year for the first time. Maybe they can get out of the quicksand someday.
Ever been in line at the airport and become aware that a one-hit-wonder rock band is standing right there with you? You look them over and think “WHO would still book you?”
That’s how I think about Mazda who *still* only sell roughly half as many cars as either bloody Hyundai or Kia. WHO would ever keep investing in them?
Audi up 15.4%… must be that peachy little A3.
You know, I’d be willing to pay twice what a Corolla costs for one of those even if it’s smaller.
Funny about Audi… they are turning up the sales wick with their new MQB-based products, and yet the product in their lineup I find most attractive is one due for replacement (the S4). I also love the A8/S8 but I’ll never be able to afford one new.
You are not alone in suffering from Update Toxicity. It affects many of us from every race, creed and origin; sort of a de facto IQ test.
Who knew that Buick sells more cars than Cadillac?
Except for a brief 3-4 year period ending about 5 years ago Buick always sells more than Cadillac.
Wouldn’t you rather drive a Buick? ( who knew it was true)
Surprisingly yes. They have made Buick very attractive in the marketplace. You get a nice car loaded with good options for a reasonable price. I don’t know why they don’t see that Cadillac needs to follow the same model, although at a few notches higher on the product scale. You don’t make conquests from E-Class customers by offering the unproven CTS, (in the minds of an E-Class customer) at the same price. Their has to be strong value. Over time you can slowly start raising the price. This is how Lexus did it.
A year or two ago, Buick offered a nice micro-CUV that has no equivalent in the Caddy line-up.
And not just in China!
Buick has 2 CUVs and will be soon adding a 3rd and has a hot selling compact FWD.
Cadillac only has 1 aging CUV and its RWD compact was poorly thought out (tightest interior room).
Once Cadillac fills its CUV lineup, things should even out but GM splits its lux/premium lineup between 2 brands unlike say what Toyota does with Lexus.
JLR is only down because they are diverting shipments to countries like China where they can get more money for their cars. JLR are basically removing dealer incentives in the US because right now they don’t have the capacity to supply all markets!
It appears the Ghibli is Maserati’s “killer app.”
Also pleased to see Lincoln moving the chains. I’m seeing more of them around my neck of the woods (and not just MKC’s). This is significant because we lost our one and only Lincoln dealership to the great recession. People have to drive about 60 miles in one of three directions to get to a Lincoln store.
The real surprise is the toyota sales. Give the sales team at toyota along with sub prime rates and fleet sales for those total sales, simply brilliant. Truth’s Motorweek just named the Camry last out of ten sedans under $27,000.00 Hyundai Sonota was came in 1st place. I also just got back from my sisters in Florida. A bunch of us went to the Central Florida Auto show. Many automakers had test drive areas in the back of the show. This is how the crowds were test driving the different makes. And each both said it was about the same all week for the number of people test driving at each make.
Kia= 50 to 70
Ford= just the F150- 30 to 50
Chrysler,Jeep,Dodge= 70 to 100
Toyota= 5 to 10
Nissan= 10 to 20
These numbers were about the same inside the show. Kia and Hyundai had 3 to 4 times the amount of people looking over the Toyota. Lincoln and Buick was about the same over Lexus. Nissan did have a large crowd. Ford and Chevrolet was very busy as was Chrysler, Dodge, and Jeep. Honda also very busy.
It was very surprising how people shied away from Toyota and other big sales makers. Bottom line, sales and marketing along with major fleet sales help make up the top sales of the list above.
The real surprise is the toyota sales. Give the sales team at toyota along with sub prime rates and fleet sales for those total sales, simply brilliant. Truth’s Motorweek just named the Camry last out of ten sedans under $27,000.00 Hyundai Sonota was came in 1st place. I also just got back from my sisters in Florida. A bunch of us went to the Central Florida Auto show. Many automakers had test drive areas in the back of the show. This how the crowds were test driving the different makes. And each both said it was about the same all week for the number of people test driving at each make.
Kia= 50 to 70
Ford= just the F150- 30 to 50
Chrysler,Jeep,Dodge= 70 to 100
Toyota= 10 to 15
Nissan= 10 to 20
These numbers were about the same inside the show. Kia and Hyundai had 3 to 4 times the amount of people looking over the Toyota. Lincoln and Buick was about the same over Lexus. Nissan did have a large crowd. Ford and Chevrolet was very busy as was Chrysler, Dodge, and Jeep.
It was very surprising how people shied away from Toyota and other big sales makers. Bottom line, sales and marketing along with major fleet sales help make up the top sales of the list above.
Interesting this. The Mustang last month sold at twice the rate of the Camaro, 8,728 to 4,385. And that the Challenger was just 229 units from outselling the Camaro.
Who would have guessed those years ago to how good the Challenger would be selling.
Nissan vs Honda.