America’s high 10 bestselling vehicles of 2022: Tesla makes the lower

DETROIT — Pickup vans once more led America’s top-selling automobiles final yr, however Tesla broke into the highest 10 for the primary time as a Covid-era shakeup amongst different standard fashions continues.

Knowledge and analytics agency Motor Intelligence studies the electrical Tesla Mannequin Y crossover was the sixth bestselling automobile within the nation in 2022, beating out the GMC Sierra pickup, Honda CR-V crossover and different longstanding high sellers.

Tesla doesn’t report regional or particular person automobile gross sales, so the information is estimated. Total, Tesla reported delivering about 1.25 million Mannequin Y and Mannequin 3 automobiles globally in 2022. The Mannequin 3 ranked thirteenth in gross sales at 211,641 items, in response to Motor Intelligence.

“It is no shock that Tesla ranks that prime,” stated Michelle Krebs, govt analyst for Cox Automotive. “The model, regardless of all of the information and stuff, nonetheless dominates the EV market and it dominates the luxurious market. Loads of that energy comes from the Mannequin Y.”

Regardless of posting its lowest gross sales since 2012, the Ford F-Collection was the country’s top-selling vehicle for the forty first yr and America’s best-selling truck for 46 consecutive years. The Chevrolet Silverado regained its longstanding second-place spot after being outsold by the Ram pickup in 2021.

Components and provide chain issues for the reason that onset of the Covid pandemic have triggered sporadic plant shutdowns at completely different instances for automakers, resulting in a shakeup in automobile gross sales rankings for the previous couple of years.

“We now have seen a lot fluctuation in gross sales and stock,” Krebs stated. “In 2022, the yr began out with very excessive demand … however then we noticed issues shift by the top of the yr. Demand gave the impression to be softening a bit whereas stock, not throughout the board, was rising.”

Automotive executives and analysts are cautiously optimistic that the U.S. trade will normalize extra this yr no matter recessionary fears, rising rates of interest and different financial issues. Final yr the trade was estimated to have bought between 13.7 million and 13.9 million automobiles, in response to trade analysts. A typical yr previous to the pandemic noticed greater than 17 million in gross sales.

Listed here are the ten best-selling automobiles within the U.S. by unit gross sales for 2022, in response to Motor Intelligence.