Top 11 Best-Selling Pickup Trucks In America - August 2016 YTD

Despite a significant 5.6% drop in full-size pickup truck sales, the U.S. auto industry reported a 0.2% overall uptick in total pickup truck sales in August 2016. That narrow gain of 477 additional sales compared with August 2015 was drawn entirely from a 39% gain amongst midsize pickup trucks.

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U.S. Vehicle Sales Rankings By Model - August 2016 YTD

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That 39% gain, an 11,536-unit increase, was powered by four of five competing nameplates. (The class-leading Toyota Tacoma slid 5%.) Honda sold 3437 copies of its new Ridgeline, an increase of 3433 sales compared with August 2015. Chevrolet and GMC's midsize twins combined for 12,605 sales. Nissan Frontier sales nearly tripled to 9537 units, a gain of 5892 sales.

Midsize pickup trucks remain small players overall. 82% of the pickups sold in the United States in August, and 83% through the first eight months of 2016, were full-size trucks. 

Though August was a slower month for the Ford F-Series, America's best-selling line of new vehicles, year-to-date sales of the F-Series are up 7% to 527,847 units, 1.8 times the total achieved by all midsize pickups. 

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In August, GM's full-size truck twins outsold the F-Series by 2940 units. Year-to-date, the F-Series leads the GM twins by 1299 sales. GM sold 620,469 pickup trucks in total in 2016's first eight months, 92,622 more than Ford managed without midsize helpers.

You can click any model name in the table below to find historical monthly and yearly U.S. sales data. You can also select a make and model at GCBC's Sales Stats page. This table is now sortable, so you can rank pickup trucks any which way you like. Mobile users can now thumb across the table for full-width access. August best seller lists for cars and SUVs will be published soon.

Click Column Headers To Sort • September 2016 • July 2016 • August 2015

Rank	Best-Selling Truck	August 2016	August 2015	% Change	2016 YTD	2015 YTD	% Change
#1	Ford F-Series	66,946	71,332	-6.1%	527,847	494,800	6.7%
#2	Chevrolet Silverado	52,408	54,977	-4.7%	380,176	387,179	-1.8%
#3	Ram P/U	40,202	40,341	-0.3%	310,839	295,243	5.3%
#4	GMC Sierra	17,478	21,241	-17.7%	146,372	141,899	3.2%
#5	Toyota Tacoma	15,373	16,230	-5.3%	126,988	122,064	4.0%
#6	Toyota Tundra	9875	10,057	-1.8%	75,315	81,582	-7.7%
#7	Nissan Frontier	9537	3645	162%	61,792	42,644	44.9%
#8	Chevrolet Colorado	9242	7114	29.9%	69,664	55,898	24.6%
#9	Honda Ridgeline	3437	4	85,825%	9429	513	1738%
#10	GMC Canyon	3363	2423	38.8%	24,257	20,094	20.7%
#11	Nissan Titan	1248	1268	-1.6%	8490	8443	0.6%
---	Chevrolet Avalanche	---	---	---	---	8	-100%
---	Cadillac Escalade EXT	---	---	---	---	2	-100%
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---	Total	229,109	228,632	0.2%	1,741,169	1,650,369	5.5%

Source: Automakers

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