Top 10 Best-Selling Vehicles of 2008
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We end 2008 with the hopes that 2009 will be better, and we'd wager the same could be said of nearly every single automotive executive in the world. It was a rough year to be selling anything, and car sales took multiple shots from seemingly every direction - from high gas prices over the summer months to the credit crunch that brought the year to a close. Still, vehicles were sold, numbers were tallied and lists were compiled. Click here to see which vehicles managed to weather the storm better than their peers.
[Source: Kicking Tires]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
Mike K 8:16PM (1/06/2009)
C'mon, guys, just list the vehicles with links next time. That's a really shady way of getting page views out of your visitors. You guys can do better.
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Mario 11:53PM (1/06/2009)
Yeah, then you have pictures of 2009 trucks for 2008 sales!?
Rob 6:52AM (1/07/2009)
I think their intention was to reuse content they already had, I wouldn't necessarily consider it shady.
collegekid13 8:14PM (1/06/2009)
what a boring list
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happy_penguin 9:20PM (1/06/2009)
What? You expected to see Veyrons and GTRs? :rolleyes:
firstplace 10:15PM (1/06/2009)
mass market. McDonalds sells the most burgers, dosent make ti the best food...
happy_penguin 10:19PM (1/06/2009)
No, but it does make them awfully successful.
JZeke 11:42PM (1/06/2009)
I had a boss who tried to tell us that as designers we had more influence if we were designing Camry's instead of Ferraris... So I quit that job because who cares about influence if you're just another cog in the machine?
I'd rather design and sell a handful of something special than a ton of something necessary.
Numbers aren't the only measure of success.
cFoo 12:20AM (1/07/2009)
What do you expect? if anything the 3 trucks in the top 10 proved to me that 1/3 of the American populations are still brain dead or still need to drive around in a truck to prove they have bigger balls.
SITEiNK 4:25AM (1/07/2009)
i remember when Ford had 5 of the 10 on the list. They really need to get back to that. I think the new products are really the best they have ever been. Something that hurt them was not updating the Taurus along with their rivals' sedans. The new Taurus that is coming out is perhaps the best car Ford has ever made, but they lost many of their customers and I am sure it will be very hard to win them back simply because people get used to what they drive and tend to stick with it.
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Wes 9:11AM (1/07/2009)
@ Cfoo
or it means that America still has a large rural and working class that need trucks. While I'm sure there is alot of excess in there, alot of those trucks are fleet sales, work, and farm trucks.
imoore 10:22AM (1/07/2009)
Wes is correct. Farm, fleet and construction sales do make for a good percentage of sales. When was the last time anyone used a Camry to haul cattle or a ton of concrete?
Rick 10:47AM (1/07/2009)
cFoo- Did you see the deals on the trucks?! There were $30k trucks on sale for $15k!! That's a deal if you are in construction, farming, maintenance, etc. Dealers were giving them away. These buyers were the opposite of brain dead, they got the deals no one else wanted.
Randy 11:37AM (1/07/2009)
@firstplace
"mass market. McDonalds sells the most burgers, dosent make ti the best food..."
Yeah the only difference is a McDonald's burger is 99 cents and the autos on this list are $15,000 - $50,0000.
The F-150 is #1 because it IS the best truck on the market! I don't even have to debate this! Anyone who's got a brain cell knows this.
Can I get a McCamry and a Coke? That'll be $25,000 for the car burger and $2.50 for the coke!
By the way... Nissan just recalled a quarter million vehicles! D'oh!
Aki 8:16PM (1/06/2009)
Technically wouldn't the Silverado be in the top spot, if you take into account the GMC Sierra? They're almost the same.
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Cash 8:25PM (1/06/2009)
Seeing how the GMC Sierra didn't even make the list, I doubt it's sales would make up the difference.
Besides, if you were going to play that game, you could add all the sales of the Lincoln Mark LT since it is essentially the same as the 150.
Dan 8:38PM (1/06/2009)
The cutoff to make the list was 200K units, the Silverado was just 50K behind the F-Series, you have no information to conclude that including the Sierra (actual sales were 169,000) would not push it over the top.
The real disinformation in these numbers is combining 1/2 ton and 1 ton trucks that share no significant parts.
It makes all the sense of Toyota listing the Camry and Corolla as the "C-Series" and claiming the top spot based on that.
A_D_Hominem 8:41PM (1/06/2009)
GM sold 168,544 GMC Sierra p/ups in 2008. Combined with the Silverado, that's 633,609 p/ups that would be significantly better than the F-150. However, that's not how GM decides to build and market their vehicles, so the crown deservedly goes to Ford.
Aki 9:03PM (1/06/2009)
Well marketing aside, considering R&D/development is very much lumped together with the Silverado/Sierra, I'd still consider the Silverado to be the king. Ah well, either way it's still 2nd.
happy_penguin 9:22PM (1/06/2009)
Sierra and Silverado together have almost always outsold F150.