Small Car Sales In America – July 2018

Best Selling Small Cars in America for July 2018

Here you will find the small car sales leaders in the United States for July 2018. Each month we compile the small car model 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 Small Cars Sales Numbers

With July’s sales putting the squeeze on the US automotive market as a whole, with small passenger cars one of the hardest hit segments as consumers continue to opt more frequently for SUVs and crossovers.

The month was a difficult one for the usually segment-leading Honda Civic, for which a perfect storm of short inventory, one fewer selling day and the aforementioned market trend towards higher-riding vehicles leaving it with a deficit of 28.3% compared with July 2017 and pushing it into second beneath the Toyota Corolla family for the month.

Bucking the trend, though only just, in the small car sales chart were the Hyundai Elantra and Nissan Sentra. Both went against drops for their respective manufacturers in July to post year-on-year increases with the Sentra currently the highest-selling small car year-to-date to have sold more cars this year than last to this point.

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Top Small Cars Sales Figures – This Month

This sales table of shows the top small 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.

All Small Car Sales

Model	US	US LY	% Change	YTD	YTD LY	% Change
Mazda 3	5,266	7,407	-28.9	41,062	47,241	-13.1
Fiat 500	363	1,026	-64.6	2,625	8,482	-69.1
Fiat 500L	107	171	-37.4	1,011	917	10.3
Hyundai Accent	1,873	2,115	-11.4	16,698	34,630	-51.8
Volkswagen Beetle	1,785	1,359	31.3	9,752	10,180	-4.2
Honda Civic	26,311	36,683	-28.3	202,553	212,446	-4.7
Mini Cooper	2,572	2,936	-12.4	15,749	18,775	-16.1
Toyota Corolla	26,754	28,333	-5.6	188,216	204,860	-8.1
Toyota Corolla iM	2,165	0	0.0	2,165	0	0.0
Toyota Corolla Sedan	24,589	0	0.0	24,589	0	0.0
Chevrolet Cruze	10,096	12,278	-17.8	87,787	117,466	-25.3
Dodge Dart	23	822	-97.2	357	8,955	-96.0
Hyundai Elantra	13,753	13,287	3.5	113,481	113,539	-0.1
Ford Fiesta	3,928	3,582	9.7	29,287	28,162	4.0
Honda Fit	3,818	4,804	-20.5	28,612	31,126	-8.1
Ford Focus	8,993	16,505	-45.5	84,794	99,226	-14.5
Kia Forte	7,546	12,022	-37.2	61,946	70,768	-12.5
Smart ForTwo	103	182	-43.4	753	2,165	-65.2
Volkswagen Golf	3,170	5,583	-43.2	27,427	43,830	-37.4
Subaru Impreza	7,386	7,777	-5.0	45,200	50,803	-11.0
Volkswagen Jetta	6,938	11,053	-37.2	39,950	66,548	-40.0
Mitsubishi Lancer	3	1,025	-99.7	3,302	8,842	-62.7
Mitsubishi Mirage	2,374	1,560	52.2	15,559	15,247	2.0
Kia Rio	1,844	1,587	16.2	12,915	8,272	56.1
Nissan Sentra	19,362	18,724	3.4	135,038	131,298	2.8
Chevrolet Sonic	2,300	2,552	-9.9	12,864	20,510	-37.3
Kia Soul	8,203	12,961	-36.7	58,235	66,077	-11.9
Chevrolet Spark	2,220	764	190.6	13,620	9,972	36.6
Hyundai Veloster	943	831	13.5	6,402	8,823	-27.4
Nissan Versa	5,472	7,899	-30.7	51,156	64,457	-20.6
Toyota Yaris	2,468	3,694	-33.2	19,084	29,298	-34.9
	∑ = 202,728	∑ = 219,522		∑ = 1,352,189	∑ = 1,532,915

Compact Car Sales

Model	US	US LY	% Change	YTD	YTD LY	% Change
Mazda 3	5,266	7,407	-28.9	41,062	47,241	-13.1
Honda Civic	26,311	36,683	-28.3	202,553	212,446	-4.7
Toyota Corolla	26,754	28,333	-5.6	188,216	204,860	-8.1
Toyota Corolla iM	2,165	0	0.0	2,165	0	0.0
Toyota Corolla Sedan	24,589	0	0.0	24,589	0	0.0
Chevrolet Cruze	10,096	12,278	-17.8	87,787	117,466	-25.3
Dodge Dart	23	822	-97.2	357	8,955	-96.0
Hyundai Elantra	13,753	13,287	3.5	113,481	113,539	-0.1
Ford Focus	8,993	16,505	-45.5	84,794	99,226	-14.5
Kia Forte	7,546	12,022	-37.2	61,946	70,768	-12.5
Volkswagen Golf	3,170	5,583	-43.2	27,427	43,830	-37.4
Subaru Impreza	7,386	7,777	-5.0	45,200	50,803	-11.0
Volkswagen Jetta	6,938	11,053	-37.2	39,950	66,548	-40.0
Mitsubishi Lancer	3	1,025	-99.7	3,302	8,842	-62.7
Nissan Sentra	19,362	18,724	3.4	135,038	131,298	2.8
	∑ = 162,355	∑ = 171,499		∑ = 1,057,867	∑ = 1,175,822

Subcompact Car Sales

Model	US	US LY	% Change	YTD	YTD LY	% Change
Hyundai Accent	1,873	2,115	-11.4	16,698	34,630	-51.8
Ford Fiesta	3,928	3,582	9.7	29,287	28,162	4.0
Honda Fit	3,818	4,804	-20.5	28,612	31,126	-8.1
Kia Rio	1,844	1,587	16.2	12,915	8,272	56.1
Chevrolet Sonic	2,300	2,552	-9.9	12,864	20,510	-37.3
Nissan Versa	5,472	7,899	-30.7	51,156	64,457	-20.6
Toyota Yaris	2,468	3,694	-33.2	19,084	29,298	-34.9
	∑ = 21,703	∑ = 26,233		∑ = 170,616	∑ = 216,455