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[Paul F]

From Edmunds, January 2012

Mark Holthoff, Sr. Manager at Edmunds.com
I asked our Industry Analysis team, and they gave me the following top 20 models currently registered and in operation in the U.S. (shown as a percentage of all vehicles registered):

4.69% FORD F SERIES
2.90% TOYOTA CAMRY
2.85% HONDA ACCORD
2.51% CHEVROLET SILVERADO
2.17% HONDA CIVIC
1.98% TOYOTA COROLLA
1.91% DODGE RAM
1.54% FORD TAURUS
1.44% FORD EXPLORER
1.29% FORD RANGER
1.29% CHEVROLET C/K
1.26% NISSAN ALTIMA
1.24% GMC SIERRA
1.17% DODGE CARAVAN
1.08% JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE
1.07% CHEVROLET IMPALA
0.96% FORD MUSTANG
0.95% CHEVROLET MALIBU
0.93% FORD ECONOLINE
0.88% FORD FOCUS

[Silverback51]

Interesting. Only 5 are imports.

[Paul F]

Depending upon where you live, you will get a distorted perspective of what people are buying. The big-metro and coastal areas tend to buy more imports.

[crASH]

Originally Posted by Paul F

Depending upon where you live, you will get a distorted perspective of what people are buying. The big-metro and coastal areas tend to buy more imports.

That is a fact. In the Southeast anyway. I have noticed this for many years. Drive through a small town and look at the supermarket parking lots, fast food, whatever. Mostly all American made, although I haven't looked in a few years.

Drive through my melting pot/bedroom community next to Research Triangle Park, NC and thery are nearly all imports.

[crASH]

Originally Posted by Silverback51

Interesting. Only 5 are imports.

I think many of the imports marketed here are built (or at least assembled) here, and the many domestics built north and south of the US, and all with world-wide sourced parts.