DETROIT — Pickup vehicles once more led America’s top-selling automobiles final yr, however Tesla broke into the highest 10 for the primary time as a Covid-era shakeup amongst different widespread fashions continues.
Knowledge and analytics agency Motor Intelligence reviews the electrical Tesla Mannequin Y crossover was the sixth bestselling car within the nation in 2022, beating out the GMC Sierra pickup, Honda CR-V crossover and different longstanding high sellers.
Tesla doesn’t report regional or particular person car gross sales, so the info is estimated. General, Tesla reported delivering about 1.25 million Mannequin Y and Mannequin 3 automobiles globally in 2022. The Mannequin 3 ranked thirteenth in gross sales at 211,641 models, in line with Motor Intelligence.
“It is no shock that Tesla ranks that top,” stated Michelle Krebs, govt analyst for Cox Automotive. “The model, regardless of all of the information and stuff, nonetheless dominates the EV market and it dominates the luxurious market. A variety of that energy comes from the Mannequin Y.”
Regardless of posting its lowest gross sales since 2012, the Ford F-Collection was the nation’s top-selling car for the forty first yr and America’s best-selling truck for 46 consecutive years. The Chevrolet Silverado regained its longstanding second-place spot after being outsold by the Ram pickup in 2021.
Components and provide chain issues for the reason that onset of the Covid pandemic have brought about sporadic plant shutdowns at totally different instances for automakers, resulting in a shakeup in car gross sales rankings for the previous couple of years.
“Now we have seen a lot fluctuation in gross sales and stock,” Krebs stated. “In 2022, the yr began out with very excessive demand … however then we noticed issues shift by the tip of the yr. Demand appeared to be softening a bit whereas stock, not throughout the board, was rising.”
Automotive executives and analysts are cautiously optimistic that the U.S. business will normalize extra this yr no matter recessionary fears, rising rates of interest and different financial considerations. Final yr the business was estimated to have offered between 13.7 million and 13.9 million automobiles, in line with business analysts. A typical yr previous to the pandemic noticed greater than 17 million in gross sales.
Listed here are the ten best-selling automobiles within the U.S. by unit gross sales for 2022, in line with Motor Intelligence.