Best-Selling Vehicles of 2016

While just short of setting records, new car sales in 2016 have been brisk. Cheap gas, easy financing, and good overall consumer confidence have helped automakers move millions of vehicles off showroom floors and into driveways across America.

If you've been paying attention for the last three decades, you probably already know what the best-selling vehicle in America will be in 2016. But there may be a few surprises after that.

Since 2016 hasn't officially come to a close yet, final sales numbers aren't yet known. But with 11 out of 12 months fully accounted for, the finishing order is likely set. Without further ado, click to the next slide to get started.

Again, seeing the Chevy Silverado in second position to the Ford F-Series has become old hat. Still, Chevrolet sold well over half a million fullsize pickup trucks in 2016, which is nothing to sneeze at.

Remember, too, that General Motors also sells the GMC Sierra line of trucks, which share most of their mechanical parts with the Chevy Silverado. With their sales added together, GM's pickup twins run neck-and-neck with their competition from Ford.

Once you get past the three big American pickup trucks, Japanese sedans and crossovers begin to dominate the best-selling vehicle list. And the top-selling sedan in America is, as it has been for several years, the Toyota Camry.

Sales of the Camry have trended downward in 2016. Through the month of November, Toyota's 355,000 Camry sales amount to nearly a 10-percent decline when compared to the previous year. That's a reflection of changing consumer tastes, as crossovers take over as the family vehicle of choice in the United States.

Is it any surprise that the tenth-best-selling vehicle in America is another crossover? More buyers choose the Rogue than any other model from Nissan, though the midsize Altima sedan is close.

That rounds out our list of the 10 Best-Selling Vehicles of 2016. The trend, as you can see, is for pickup trucks and utility vehicles to continue overtaking smaller sedans in nearly every automaker's lineup. We expect more of the same in 2017.