Large Car Sales In America – March 2016 YTD

March 2016’s Chevrolet Impala sales performance, a 28% year-over-year U.S. sales increase to 11,465 units, represented the third-best Impala sales month in the last 15.

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

Good news? Sort of. The Impala walks on very different ground than it used to, with fleet sales de-emphasized and an upmarket aura that’s repositioned the big Chevy in the overall passenger car spectrum. 11,465 March sales? In March 2012, Chevrolet sold 19,035 Impalas.

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Moreover, even the Impala and GM’s other big sedan, the Buick LaCrosse combined trailed the Canadian-built Fiat Chrysler Automobiles’ duo by 4134 units in the first-quarter of 2016. Chrysler 300 sales are up 23% so far this year; Dodge Charger volume is up 6%.

Ford Taurus volume is rebounding, as well. And the eighth-generation Nissan Maxima continues to make headway. Maxima volume more than doubled in the United States during the first three months of 2016, a year-over-year increase of 9031 sales.

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. Suggestions on how GCBC should break down segments can be passed on through the Contact page.

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Large Car	March 2016	March 2015	% Change	2016 YTD	2015 YTD	% Change
Buick LaCrosse	2275	4425	-48.6%	8975	10,199	-12.0%
Chevrolet Impala	11,465	8942	28.2%	30,554	27,221	12.2%
Chevrolet SS	286	264	8.3%	539	594	-9.3%
Chrysler 300	6474	5359	20.8%	15,917	12,907	23.3%
Dodge Charger	9817	8828	11.2%	27,746	26,218	5.8%
Ford Taurus	5182	4164	24.4%	13,456	10,569	27.3%
Hyundai Azera	508	616	-17.5%	1355	1957	-30.8%
Hyundai Genesis *	3762	3064	22.8%	8645	8430	2.6%
Kia Cadenza	593	783	-24.3%	1552	1806	-14.1%
Nissan Maxima	6588	2760	139%	16,225	7194	126%
Toyota Avalon	4643	4721	-1.7%	12,201	13,604	-10.3%
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Total	51,593	43,926	17.5%	137,165	120,699	13.6%

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.