Piggybacking off the point some people made about fleet purchases of trucks boosting sales, even with that in mind, out of the top ten vehicles sold its split down the middle with 5 being trucks and only 1 that isnt a fleet targeted truck (the Tacoma being the one truck you dont see many fleets of in the US) and the other 5 are all gas saving sedans, wagon/mini suv like rav4, and 2 electric vehicles. You knock out fleet sales of trucks and id b3 willing to bet that top 10 list jumps to 8 gas conserving whips to 1 maybe 2 pickup trucks.
This really shows you the state of the average person in the US.
And the dingleberry on top of the shit sundae is that Ford also killed off the EV version. Sure, the F-150 has a lot of problems simply based on its size. But, it is the most popular vehicle in the US and no amount of whining about it is going to change that fact. So, instead of pissing in the wind, the EV F-150 at least tried to meet people where they are. Unfortunately, sales weren’t great and Ford gave up on the project. The only upshot is that the venn diagram of diesel F-150 owners whining about gas prices and Trump voters is a small circle fully inside a larger circle. So, the right people are feeling pain.
Small dick energy is strong with this one
“car”
The F150 is not a car, it’s a truck. For Americans, it’s a different category, for (many) Europeans, it’s a type of car.
Is it still true that even Rhode Island has/had more truck sales than car sales?
Non-truck/SUV cars only make up 20% of new car sales now, and it’s been less than 50% for more than a decade. The last time cars were popular was the 2000s, after 2008 economic crisis their sales rapidly decreased.
in another 10 years sedans will be effectively be extinct and everything will be a SUV or a truck. they drop a few percentage points every year.
Isn’t this has been #1 for like 25 or 30 years, except one year it was the Camry or something?
yes
it has massive sales because it has such broad appeal and a huge number of configurable options.
It is interesting seeing Americans always complaining about gas prices(especially now) whilst also owning vehicles that use up fuel by just looking at them.
Its interesting people outside the US assume in a country of 300 million people that the same people buying trucks are the same people complaining about gas.
First figure I found was 725,000ish F150s sold in 2022. That only leaves 299,275,000 other people that must not complain about gas if all the complaining is done by the f150 owners.
My money is on the sales being boosted by fleet purchases of F-150’s cuz its tough to find a public works department in any village, town, subarb or even city that doesnt bulk purchase Ford trucks.
cause they don’t allow cooler cars in the US anymore
Fuckin rednecks
Yes, although it breaks down a bit better when you look by state. Unfortunately, iirc Tesla Y was leading in the West and the other sections are just other trucks, like the Silverado.
I’m half grateful it’s not at all true in Los Angeles*, but my neighbor loves loud muscle cars so I can’t say we’re better. At least in every neighborhood I can spot the asshole pretty easily.
*Edit, should say overall. Plenty of pavement princesses in some locals. Our trucks in my neighborhood are usually older and full of gardening equipment lol
