bagwell

Here’s the list (with 2012 data in parentheses):

1) Ford F-Series: 38 seconds per sale in August 2013 (46 seconds in August 2012) | Total vehicles: 71,115 (58,201)

2) Toyota Camry: 60 seconds (73 seconds) | 44,713 (36,720)

3) Chevy Silverado: 61 seconds (70 seconds) | 43,603 (38,295)

4) Honda Civic: 68 seconds (108 seconds) | 39,458 (24,897)

5) Honda Accord: 69 seconds (77 seconds) | 38,559 (34,848)

6) Honda CRV: 77 seconds (112 seconds) | 34,654 (23,877)

7) Ram (a Chrysler pickup): 81 seconds (106 seconds) | 33,009 (25,215)

The Toyota Prius, meanwhile, was (quietly) closing on the pack with almost 27,400 vehicles sold last month—one every 98 seconds.

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Hoovey689

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Not surprising as all of these are in the top 10 best selling cars tally at the end of the year Stateside

Kira X

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It's cool to see the big tree American trucks up there.

mmarshall

Cool maybe, but not surprising. Getting an F-150/Silverado/Ram owner out of his truck is like trying to keep the fox out of the henhouse. They are arguably the most loyal owners in the industry.

bagwell

yep funny -
all F150 drivers think Chevy sucks
all Chevy/GMC truck drivers think Ford sucks

Hoovey689

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And the only time Ford and Chevy get along is when they're making fun of Dodge/Ram lol!!

I8ABMR

so if I ever become a car salesman then I know to work at Honda.

rominl

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i am surprised corolla is not on it

Hoovey689

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Probably because it's not the new one. I'm sure next years list may include the Corolla and Fusion

rominl

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good point, that can definitely explain the slowdown

mmarshall

The new Corolla, overall, does look promising, but one possible snag will be the (continuing) use of the old 4-speed automatic on the base model, while other versions get a CVT. Though a number of Corolla buyers might not care about what type of automatic they have under the hood (witness how the old models with the 4AT still sold well), I'm of the opinion that Toyota, with the new Corolla, repeated the same mistake that Subaru made on the new Impreza and XV Crosstrek....not using a 6AT across the board on all non-manual versions.

spwolf

Old Corolla actually improved its sales this year... they went down 3 years ago when they shut down California plant and keep going up every year.

spwolf

thats on fleet sale model estimated to get less than 10% of the sales... essentially CVT is base for regular customer.

84Cressida

Dodge is owned by Fiat. They're no more American than Toyota or Honda. I don't give a damn if they "started" here either. They're under foreign ownership.

Overdose

I think this would be more interesting if they broke it down by vehicle type: trucks, sedan, coupe, convertibles, etc.