In America, the best-selling cars aren’t cars at all. They’re trucks. Or pick-ups, as we’d call them. The market leader – in fact the best-selling vehicle in the USA for each of the past 39 years – is the Ford F-Series, and in 2020, even in a market depressed by coronavirus, more than 787,000 were sold new.
The second and third best-sellers Stateside were trucks, too — the Chevrolet Silverado (594,000 units) and the RAM 1500 (563,000). And two more creep into the USA Top 10 sales chart, the GMC Sierra (253,000) and the Toyota Tacoma (234,000). Combined sales, in a low year, of 2.4m.
I offer this for context as 2.4m sales in a single year, of that single vehicle type, is more than the best year ever for…
