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April 15, 2005
Top 10 Best Selling Cars for March 2005
The Honda Accord regained the #2 spot in March, after being displaced last month -- but for the year, Toyota still owns the #1 and #2 best selling cars in America with the Camry and Corolla. Amazing. But what's more amazing is that no one else is writing about it. Read the charts, people.
The Ford Mustang is now the #8 best selling car in the country, up one spot, thanks to a fall in sales of the Focus. The Mustang should easily take the top spot in the convertible segment in '05 -- Ford expects droptops to account for 30% of the 160,000 pony cars it expects to sell this year, for at least 50,000 total.
This volume should easily displace the Chrysler Sebring as the best selling convertible in America, which sold 37,147 in '04. The Mustang and the Sebring have traded the first two spots the last five years, according to Emily Foley of John Bailey & Associates. Sebring was #1 in 2004, 2003 and 2000, while Mustang led in 2001 and 2002.
The surprise gainer for the month is the Chevy Malibu, up 38.4% in sales -- displacing the Chrysler 300 from the #10 position.
Posted by Frank at April 15, 2005 6:30 AM | Filed under Auto News
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