The Best Selling Cars in America – August 2018

Here you will find the YTD passenger car leaders in the United States for August 2018 YTD. Each month we compile passenger car sales data and reports for North American markets and analyze it to create the best selling list below.

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Our Take On The Passenger Car Numbers

Passenger cars were hit the hardest in what was a flat month across the US auto market.

The best-selling car in America – the Toyota Camry – saw sales fall by 18.65% year-on-year in August, slightly ahead of a wider shift across the passenger car models detailed below.

For the models below, the gap to August 2017’s total sales was 16.2%.

While on GCBC we don’t report estimates for GM’s sales figures in between their official quarterly reports, a rolling back of incentive spending across their brands is thought to have resulted in a drop in retail sales.

Bucking the backslide trend in sales in August were a few compacts – the Subaru Impreza family and Hyndat Elantra among them – the Kia Optima and Nissan Altima in the mid size segment, and the Ford Mustang, sales of which shot up 35.27% year-on-year to put it within less than 1% of its year-to-date total to August 2017.

Best Selling Passenger Car Rankings

Top Passenger Car Sales Figures – This Month

This sales table of shows the top passenger car sales performers in the United States, including their year on year growth rates both for the most recent month and year to date figures. Note that this table is sortable and that it fees the chart below. You can easily change the chart by filtering and sorting the below table.

For reference US = United States Sales for the month, US LY = Last Year’s United States Sales for the month, US vs LY = The Year on Year Growth Rate, YTD = United States Sales Year to Date, YTD LY = Last Year’s United States Year to Date Sales, YTD vs LY = The Year on Year Growth Rate.