Large Car Sales In America – September 2016 YTD

Full-size volume brand car sales slid 9% in September 2016 despite massive gains from the Dodge Charger and Nissan Maxima.

U.S. Vehicle Sales Rankings By Model – September 2016 YTD
U.S. Car Sales Rankings By Model – September 2016 YTD

With the Buick LaCrosse in a transition phase as GM moves the LaCrosse slightly upmarket, sales have dried up this year. LaCrosse volume plunged 51% in September. Its Chevrolet Impala corporate patner took a 26% dive. On a stop sale, the Chevrolet SS, not a common car to begin with, only produced five September sales. Sales of the Chrysler 300, Ford Taurus, Hyundai Genesis (with the sedan now becoming a Genesis G80), Kia Cadenza, and Toyota Avalon all took tumbles, as well.

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Dodge Charger sales, however, climbed into five digit territory for the first time since February of last year, rising 35% year-over-year to lead the segment with 10,056 sales.

Nissan Maxima volume, meanwhile, reached a six-month high by jumping 70% to 6569 units, nearly reeling in the Chevrolet Impala.

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 large cars any which way you like. Mobile users can now thumb across the table for full-width access. Suggestions on how GCBC should break down segments can be passed on through the Contact page.

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Large Car	September 2016	September 2015	% Change	2016 YTD	2015 YTD	% Change
Buick LaCrosse	1909	3880	-50.8%	19,829	32,549	-39.1%
Chevrolet Impala	6919	9359	-26.1%	74,038	85,466	-13.4%
Chevrolet SS	5	222	-97.7%	2153	2421	-11.1%
Chrysler 300	5459	6606	-17.4%	44,040	39,810	10.6%
Dodge Charger	10,056	7466	34.7%	72,270	72,583	-0.4%
Ford Taurus	3275	3942	-16.9%	34,144	37,959	-10.1%
Hyundai Azera	419	281	49.1%	3775	4639	-18.6%
Hyundai Genesis *	845	2239	-62.3%	21,663	24,423	-11.3%
Kia Cadenza	390	859	-54.6%	3753	4880	-23.1%
Nissan Maxima	6569	3871	69.7%	49,376	26,801	84.2%
Toyota Avalon	3844	4828	-20.4%	35,029	44,320	-21.0%
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Total	39,690	43,553	-8.9%	360,070	375,851	-4.2%

Source: Automakers
* Hyundai USA, not GoodCarBadCar, chooses to combine sales figures for the Genesis sedan and Genesis Coupe, forcing us to include the Genesis with these volume-brand cars on pricing grounds before we even get to the “brand status” issue.
GCBC isn’t here to break down segments, an impossible task for any group, but to display sales data for the sake of comparison. The more ways sales data can be displayed, the better. You can always find the sales results for EVERY vehicle and form your own competitive sets by using the All Vehicle Rankings posts.