With a second strong month in a row, General Motors leap-frogged Ford to take the number-one spot in November with 28,523 sales, up an astounding 30.8% from a year ago. Ford’s sales of 24,450 vehicles were up 18.2% but that wasn’t enough to hold off GM.
Last year’s best seller, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, saw monthly sales fall once again, down 1.7% to 20,674.
Year-to-date, Ford remained comfortably in first place with 284,696 vehicles sold, up 10.0% from 2015 — enough to gain a full percentage point of market share, to 15.6%.
FCA hung on to second place with 258,575 sales, down 4.6%, but with a 1.1% loss of share. GM’s November results pushed year-to-date sales of 249.212 vehicles back into positive territory, up 1.8% from 2015, although still down a tenth-of-a-point in market share.
Toyota (+4.3%), Honda (1.2%) and Hyundai (-5.0%) followed in that order, although all lagged the market-average advance. Nissan (+12.6%), in seventh place, surpassed it and Mazda (+9.2%) beat out Kia (+20.5%) for eighth place for the second month in a row. Volkswagen (-0.5%) completed the top ten, although Subaru (+18.0%) came within 150 units of catching the German brand.
Smart (+318.6%) and Jaguar (+272.8%) were the biggest gainers in percentage terms, along with Maserati (+93.0%). Along with those low-volume players and Ford, GM, Nissan and Subaru, already mentioned, Porsche (+20.2%), Infiniti (15.8%), Audi (13.2%) and Mercedes-Benz (12.6%) all exceeded the average market advance.
FCA, Hyundai and Volkswagen, already mentioned, and Mini (-24.9%) were the only brands to experience sales declines in November.
[NOTE: Data quoted in this report were sourced from DesRosiers Automotive Consultants, Global Automakers of Canada and individual automakers.]
