Top 30 Best-Selling Vehicles In America – October 2013

For the sixth consecutive month and for the seventh time in 2013 Ford sold more than 60,000 F-Series pickups in the United States. Ford only accomplished this feat once last year and once in 2011. 2010’s best F-Series sales month, December, resulted in 54,888 sales.

With December sales typically being the strongest, history suggests F-Series sales two months from now will be between 22% and 30% stronger than they were in October. 75,000 F-Series sales certainly seems possible in December.

In case you hadn’t guessed, the F-Series was America’s best-selling vehicle in October 2013. It feels like a very long time since the Honda Civic unseated the F-Series… in May 2008.

• All Vehicles Ranked By October 2013 & YTD U.S. Sales

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Compared with the list of America’s 30 best-selling vehicles one month ago, the Chrysler Town & Country is the only vehicle not present in October. It was knocked out of the top 30 in favour of the BMW 3-Series.

Half of America’s 30 favourite vehicles are sold by the Detroit Three. Five are pickup trucks. There’s also one minivan and nine SUVs and crossovers. The remaining nameplates are passenger cars.

Historical monthly and yearly sales figures for any of these best-selling automobiles can always be accessed through the dropdown menu at GCBC’s Sales Stats page, and for those not viewing the mobile version of this site, near the top right of this page, as well. The + icon has been removed from year-over-year improvements. Look instead for red font to designate year-over-year declines. We’ve also added prior year data, so you’ll spend less time hunting around GCBC for historical figures.

GCBC has already published rankings for 36 different brands and 14 different trucks and 20 SUVs and crossovers and 20 passenger cars. Below, you’ll find a list where all vehicles of all types are thrown in together: the 30 most popular vehicles in the United States in October 2013.

October 2014 • November 2013 • September 2013 • October 2012

Rank	Vehicle	October 2013	October 2012	% Change	2013 YTD	2012 YTD	% Change
#1	Ford F-Series	63,803	56,497	12.9%	623,309	520,230	19.8%
#2	Chevrolet Silverado	42,660	38,739	10.1%	403,435	336,939	19.7%
#3	Dodge Ram	29,846	25,222	18.3%	292,633	238,815	22.5%
#4	Toyota Camry	29,144	29,926	– 2.6%	348,134	344,714	1.0%
#5	Honda Civic	27,328	20,687	32.1%	280,889	254,716	10.3%
#6	Honda Accord	25,162	28,349	– 11.2%	307,264	276,196	11.2%
#7	Toyota Corolla/Matrix	23,637	20,949	12.8%	257,184	243,652	5.6%
#8	Honda CR-V	22,554	20,205	11.6%	251,559	194,738	29.2%
#9	Ford Escape	22,253	19,832	12.2%	250,543	219,907	13.9%
#10	Nissan Altima	21,785	24,623	– 11.5%	271,303	258,663	4.9%
#11	Ford Fusion	21,740	12,690	71.3%	248,033	206,855	19.9%
#12	Hyundai Sonata	19,872	16,773	18.5%	172,574	192,119	– 10.2%
#13	Toyota RAV4	17,590	10,936	60.8%	177,832	145,103	22.6%
#14	Chevrolet Equinox	17,163	15,387	11.5%	202,583	182,249	11.2%
#15	GMC Sierra	16,503	14,568	13.3%	152,173	126,749	20.1%
#16	Chevrolet Cruze	16,087	19,121	– 15.9%	211,862	199,721	6.1%
#17	Chevrolet Malibu	15,746	9629	63.5%	170,696	189,094	– 9.7%
#18	Ford Explorer	15,288	14,220	7.5%	161,222	132,023	22.1%
#19	Ford Focus	15,108	18,320	– 17.5%	203,762	205,006	– 0.6%
#20	Hyundai Elantra	14,876	14,512	2.5%	209,469	167,087	25.4%
#21	Jeep Grand Cherokee	14,263	11,919	19.7%	142,960	123,994	15.3%
#22	Nissan Rogue	12,919	8436	53.1%	137,588	118,199	16.4%
#23	Subaru Forester	12,581	5309	137%	96,953	61,880	56.7%
#24	Toyota Tacoma	12,351	12,191	1.3%	134,123	115,063	16.6%
#25	Jeep Wrangler	11,780	11,310	4.2%	131,721	119,787	10.0%
#26	BMW 3-Series & 4-Series *	11,715	9729	20.4%	89,636	78,081	14.8%
#27	Chevrolet Impala	11,713	8368	40.0%	132,746	148,547	– 10.6%
#28	Volkswagen Jetta	11,710	13,476	– 13.1%	135,983	140,504	– 3.2%
#29	Dodge Grand Caravan	11,609	10,603	9.5%	103,179	118,730	– 13.1%
#30	Kia Optima	11,492	12,948	– 11.2%	135,548	127,676	6.2%

Source: Automakers
Red font indicates year-over-year declining sales
* Until BMW separates 3-Series and 4-Series sales in their own release, we can’t separate them, either, as BMW is up until now refusing to separate the two.
^ Prius breakdown by variant.