The fourth-highest monthly total in the Ford Transit’s U.S. sales history was easily enough to grab top spot among full-size commercial vans and the commercial van category overall in February 2016.
U.S. Vehicle Sales Rankings By Model – February 2016 YTD
Year-over-year, Transit sales jumped 70%, a gain of nearly 5000 units. Ford’s smaller van, the Transit Connect, led the small commercial van category thanks to a 9% uptick to 3038 units, 1275 more sales than the next-best Ram ProMaster City managed.
Ram commercial van sales certainly improved, however. Even including the discontinued Ram Cargo Van, Ram’s U.S. cargo van sales total jumped 76% to 4747 units, or 12% market share.
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The segment as a whole posted a notable increase in February. Year-over-year, sales shot up 31% as the full-size sector grew faster than the small van sector, helped no doubt by the tweener-sized Mercedes-Benz Metris’s inclusion in the full-size sector’s results as Mercedes-Benz continues to roll their sales together. (Mercedes-Benz also began reporting sales of the E-Class and CLS-Class together in February, a real disappointment for GCBC’s sales-obsessed readership.)
Yet while improvements were the norm almost across the board, Ford’s reign continues. 52% of the sales generated by the 13 nameplates listed below were produced by three Fords.
You can click any model name in the tables below to find historical monthly and yearly U.S. auto sales data. You can also select a make and model at GCBC’s Sales Stats page. This table is sortable, so you can rank commercial vans any which way you like. Suggestions on how GCBC should break down segments can be passed on through the Contact page.
Click Column Headers To Sort • February 2017 • March 2016 • January 2016 • February 2015
Van
|
February
2016 |
February
2015 |
%
Change |
2016
YTD |
2015
YTD |
%
Change |
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734
|
605 | 21.3% | 1444 | 1190 | 21.3% | |
4311
|
3222 | 33.8% | 7224 | 6804 | 6.2% | |
3873
|
4396 | -11.9% | 6832 | 7704 | -11.3% | |
11,496
|
6750 | 70.3% | 21,127 | 13,130 | 60.9% | |
3038
|
2790 | 8.9% | 6449 | 6479 | -0.5% | |
1380
|
1999 | -31.0% | 2880 | 3488 | -17.4% | |
2269
|
1675 | 35.5% | 4168 | 3180 | 31.1% | |
1434
|
1188 | 20.7% | 2726 | 2247 | 21.3% | |
1663
|
1287 | 29.2% | 2936 | 2471 | 18.8% | |
1
|
940 | -99.9% | 1 | 2041 | -99.9% | |
2983
|
1627 | 83.3% | 5092 | 3207 | 58.8% | |
1763
|
126 | 1299% | 2737 | 219 | 1150% | |
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Full-Size Commercial Vans ³
|
27,746
|
20,857 | 33.0% | 50,049 | 39,760 | 25.9% |
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Small Commercial Vans ²
|
7199
|
5748 | 25.2% | 13,567 | 12,400 | 9.4% |
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Total
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34,945
|
26,605 | 31.3% | 63,616 | 52,160 | 22.0% |
Source: Automakers
Sprinter & Metris sales combined by Mercedes-Benz, not GoodCarBadCar, and displayed with full-size commercial vans for the time being.
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Commercial Van Sales In America – February 2017
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Commercial Van Sales In America – January 2016
Commercial Van Sales In America – February 2015
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