What's in your garage?

[deerfield]

My wife came across a conversation in the twitter world that made me smile.

In this case, the conversation was connected to a short piece in the online magazine The Federalist about the sale of pickup trucks. Link: http://thefederalist.com/2017/01/04/...-drives-truck/

In this piece that has a political bent, the author points out that last year the top three best selling new vehicles in America were full-size pickup trucks. Not crossovers, SUVs, sports cars, or sedans. But pickup trucks, of which, in 2016 more than 162,000 were sold.

I was aware of their popularity because of where we live in rural Virginia, but not aware of just how popular pickups are in general across the country. As reported by AutoBlog, these are the 2016 new vehicle sales numbers:

1) Ford F-Series - 69,651;
2) Ram 1500-3500 - 47,792;
3) Chevrolet Silverado - 45,380;
4) Toyota Corolla - 32,272;
5) Honda CR-V - 31,884;
6) Toyota Camry - 30,707;
7) Toyota RAV4 - 29,348;
Honda Civic - 28,184
9) Honda Accord - 27,204; and
10) Nissan Rogue - 26,459.

Link: http://www.autoblog.com/photos/best-...#slide-3625527

While I am not taking a side with or against the author’s politics, I did find humor in responses that apparently resulted from this question, which was not well received by journalists: Do you personally know someone that owns a pickup truck?

As mentioned in the Federalist piece, according to a market research firm trucks (with Ford leading the way) are the most popular vehicles among Republicans and Subaru is the most popular choice of vehicle for Democrats.

I have to chuckle. In my garage is a Ram crew cab pickup. Next to it, as you face the garage, on the left, is a Subaru.

[DOCDRS]

Not sure about those numbers as I know that about +/-250,000 chevy equinox's are sold every year.

http://gmauthority.com/blog/gm/chevr...sales-numbers/

[deerfield]

Doc – You were right to question the numbers in my post. I incorrectly represented that they were annual numbers, when in fact they were just for the month of September. Below are full year 2016 new vehicle sales numbers as reported by the Wall Street Journal. Though there is some shifting of models, full size pickups remain the top three sellers. Good catch. Sorry about that. - Deerfield

http://online.wsj.com/mdc/public/pag...tml#autosalesA

TOP 10 VEHICLES DEC YTD 2016

Ford F-Series 820,799
Chevy Silverado 574,876
Ram 1500-3500 489,418
Toyota Camry 388,616
Honda Civic 366,927
Toyota Corolla / Matrix 360,483
Honda CR-V 357,335
Toyota RAV4 352,139
Honda Accord 345,225
Nissan Rogue 329,904

[sandm]

as long as we have cheap oil, this will continue to be the case. trucks are one of the most profitable segments of the new car business so no way the big3 are ever going to promote nor can survive on small car sales. based on your data above, democrats should just stop running for office since subaru will not ever have a vehicle in the top10 nor be a large automaker to challenge the top5

my garage currently:
2000 ford f150. 2-3k miles at most a year and pretty much only tows the boat.
1998 saturn sl1. winter beater
2015 hyundai genesis coupe. summer fun car.

not sure what my garage says about me. perhaps an independent since I drive a mixed bag.

[jtatexc]

Haha I have a Subaru next to our f150 as well. We are currently sitting on:
2015 f150 my dd and tow rig
2016 Subaru Legacy
2007 mini cooper s- wife's sporty toy
1998- eclipse gsx- my sporty toy (doing a pretty good size build on it approaching 400whp right now)

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[DFTR Josh]

Ford F350
83 Chev C10
Ford Fusion
Chrysler 200
Victory Kingpin

[JASONZ]

My Garage:
2011 GMC Sierra 2500 6.0L gets 12.5MPG
2012 Mini Cooper gets 38MPG

[sivs1]

2011 C300 4Matic
2012 Honda Pilot Touring
2015 Ram 1500 Laramie.

Quick idea of my normal commute here in Northern Utah.


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[wolff supra21v]

my garage

2015 GMC Sierra 1500 crew cab Good vehicle weekend driver and pull boat
2006 Jeep Grand Cherekee my daily driver
2015 dodge 1500 club cab Not realy ours but wife daily driver supply by her work

When need to pull something serious the construction company I own has a
2004.5 Chevy 2500 crew cab diesel (I am lucky to drive this one every two or three months it seems like)

[russellsmojo]

2015 Tahoe (better looking and better motor than expedition )

2015 Toyota Avalon. Company owns this one.

Lifted club car golf cart - for the kids.

The remainder of garage is wife's storage building.

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