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Americans Top 20 Car Choices in 2015

Cars are a lifestyle for the Americans. They choose cars according to their jobs, hobbies or other needs. We listed Top 20 list which models Americans mostly bought in 2015. It looks like Japanese and American car manufacturers are fiercely competing to enter Top 20 list.

Yusuf Demir
Yusuf DemirCloud & Software Reporter
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Americans Top 20 Car Choices in 2015

Cars are a lifestyle for the Americans. They choose cars according to their jobs, hobbies or other needs. We listed Top 20 list which models Americans mostly bought in 2015. It looks like Japanese and American car manufacturers are fiercely competing to enter Top 20 list. There is ten American-based, nine Japanese-based and one Korean-based company in top 20 list.

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Light-duty truck sales are higher than car sales, and the difference is about 2 million. If we analyze the YoY growth by manufacturers, Alfa Romeo has the highest growth. Tesla is the forth one by YoY (2014/2015) change. And as you guess, VW sales decreased -4,8% because of the emission problem. 77 percent of the market dominated by six manufacturers which are General Motors, Ford Motor Company, Toyota, Chrysler, Honda and Nissan. All the numbers say that American and Japanese cars because of their low maintenance costs and usefulness. And German manufacturers have to understand customers needs to gain more market share.

Ford F – Series PU tool number of sales  780,354

Chevrolet Silverado PU total number of sales 600,544

Dodge Ram PU total number of sales 451,116

Toyota Camry total number of sales 429,355

Toyota Corolla / Matrix total number of sales 363,332

Honda Accord total number of sales 355,557

Honda CR-V total number of sales 345,647

Honda Civic total number of sales 335,384

Nissan Altima total number of sales 333,398

Toyota RAV4 total number of sales 315,412

Ford Escape total number of sales 306,492

Ford Fusion total number of sales 300,17

Nissan Rogue total number of sales 287,19

Chevrolet Equinox total number of sales 277,589

Ford Explorer total number of sales 249,251

GMC Sierra PU total number of sales 224,139

Hyundai Sonata total number of sales 213,303

Jeep Cherokee total number of sales 220,26

Nissan Sentra total number of sales 203,509

Jeep Grand Cherokee total number of sales 195,958

Source: wall street journal

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Yusuf Demir

Yusuf Demir

Cloud & Software Reporter

Yusuf Demir is the Cloud & Software Reporter at TrendinTech, where he covers cloud infrastructure, enterprise platforms, developer tools and the digital transformation of businesses in the UK and the United States. He previously reported on enterprise technology for The Register in London and covered the cloud and SaaS beat for TechCrunch, following the competition between AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, the open source licensing disputes and the rise of Kubernetes. Yusuf holds an MEng in Computing from Imperial College London and speaks regularly at KubeCon and AWS re:Invent, where he moderates conversations with engineers and chief technology officers. He is most interested in the gap between vendor roadmaps and the systems engineers actually run, and in what the cloud bill looks like once the free credits expire.

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