2020 Automotive Industry Sales Report

Updated: Jan 6, 2021

F&I Tools Key Points

Quarter 4 finished strong.

Toyota bumped Ford down to 3rd place for the first time in recent history. Even after a rebound, auto industry sales dropped 15% year over year. However, it was a stronger performance than anyone predicted.

Jaguar, Mercedes, and Tesla are late to post their sales data.

The final report is pending those numbers, but the result will land around 14.5 million total vehicles sold in the USA last year, ending a five year run of 17 million vehicles sold per year.

USA Vehicle Sales by Quarter
2020 Major Automotive Brands

LIGHT-DUTY CAR SALES DATA
Quarter 1 (Jan - Mar) Quarter 2 (Apr - Jun)
Quarter 3 (Jul - Sep) Quarter 4 (Oct - Dec)
Data listed by manufacturer. Reflects quantity of new car sales.

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2020 Top 6	USA Rank	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	2020 YTD
General Motors	1	612,488	492,501	665,022	768,189	2,538,190
Toyota	2	495,644	398,734	558,452	660,310	2,113,140
Ford Motor Co	3	515,111	433,874	549,134	536,426	2,034,545
FCA Jeep Chrysler	4	446,595	367,094	507,384	499,600	1,820,673
Honda	5	299,041	292,744	378,422	366,657	1,336,864
Hyundai Kia	6	272,815	268,388	339,577	341,654	1,222,433
Other Leaders
Nissan	7	292,988	189,335	264,102	257,809	1,004,234
Subaru	8	130,608	136,611	169,450	175,409	612,078
Volkswagen Group	9	128,585	116,844	148,033	173,867	567,329
Mercedes-Benz	10	75,293	69,505	85,109
BMW	11	67,397	56,285	77,383	107,330	308,395
Mazda	12	67,702	61,204	74,411	75,801	279,118
Tesla	13	52,800	36,800	64,000
Jaguar Land Rover	14	29,344	19,121	20,548
Volvo	15	19,477	22,392	30,349	38,023	110,241
Top 6 Total		2,641,694	2,253,335	2997,991	3,172,836	11,065,845
Other Total		864,194	708,097	933,385
2020 Grand Total		3,505,888	2,961,432	3,931,376		TBD

Previous Reports: 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014

Global Automotive Industry Snapshot
Data in Millions of Vehicles Sold

Region	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2015 - 2019
China	20.01	23.57	24.28	23.75	21.85	113.46
Europe	13.20	13.97	14.39	14.29	14.02	69.87
US	17.70	17.50	17.23	17.18	17.05	86.66
Top 3 Total	50.61	55.04	55.90	55.22	52.92	270 Million

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