Top 30 Best-Selling Vehicles in U.S. - October 2013

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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. Click Either Chart To Expand 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. 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.