November Pickup Sales

Best-Selling Pickup Trucks: November 2015

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As predicted, November sales stayed strong for automakers that make pickup trucks with many of the major players — like Ford and GM — benefiting from strong incentives and low fuel prices nationwide. Ford's momentum continues now that its pipeline is full of F-150s and its two newly refurbished manufacturing plants are producing near maximum strength, delivering many different trim levels and configurations to dealerships.

We're just starting to see year-over-year comparison numbers for the Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon; they went on sale last year around this time. Their numbers look pretty good and GM is likely to close out the year with more than 125,000 Colorados and Canyons sold by Dec. 31.

GMC took one of the biggest hits of the month, dropping year-over-year sales numbers more than 25 percent mainly due to the strong incentive spending the Sierras experienced for November 2014, one of their strongest sales months on record. Tundra sales numbers also slipped, as the full-size Toyota fell below last year's total for the first time this year.

The bright spot for Toyota is that for every Tundra not being built on the San Antonio production line, a new Tacoma is taking its place. Tacoma production is up more than 15 percent for the year based on the strength of the 2016 Tacoma improvements. Toyota could see close to 300,000 units from the San Antonio plant by year's end.

And for those keeping score, Ford will likely sell close to 750,000 F-Series trucks by the end of the year, while GM — which includes the Silverado, Sierra, Colorado and Canyon — will likely be closer to 900,000 units.

PickupTrucks.com

Some pretty good numbers for most.

I'm still of the belief this growth or pace is propped up significantly.  With zero or low interest rates over 72 and higher months, any small hiccup, these big ticket items plummet.  Much less the larger global economic factors and microelectronic issues we see on a daily base create volatility for little foundation reasoning.

GMC Sierra was 11% off from last month.

GMC has been hitting gov fleets pretty heavy IMO.

Diesel Dan wrote:

GMC has been hitting gov fleets pretty heavy IMO.

GMC? Really? I always thought GM used Chevrolet for fleet sales.

August fleet breakdown. http://www.autonews.com/article/20150914/RETAIL01/309149964/a-tale-of-2-fleet-sales-strategies

GM total fleet down 9% in November.  http://www.streetinsider.com/Corporate+News/GM+(GM)+Nov.+U.S.+Light-Vehicle+Sales+Miss+Estimates+Amid+Lower+GMC,+Buick+Results/11116055.html


Total fleet sales were down 9 percent and represented 20.1 percent share of total sales (roughly 46,000 units):
* Deliveries to commercial customers were up 6 percent
* Government deliveries were up 2 percent
* Rental sales were down 16 percent per plan
* Calendar year to date, commercial deliveries are up 13 percent, government deliveries are up 1 percent, and rental deliveries are down 11 percent

ggbaird wrote:

GMC? Really? I always thought GM used Chevrolet for fleet sales.

Me to but the DOT has many new GMC trucks from crew cab duallys to 1/2 ton reg cabs running the roads lately.