The Best Selling Car Of 2021

By Douglas A. McIntyre Published Jul 4, 5:47AM EDT

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The car industry nearly collapsed in the Spring of 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic undermined sales severely. People could not go to dealers which were shuttered like other retailers. People stopped driving to work, school, and for vacation. Unit sales fell below even those last posted at the depth of The Great Recession. Then, in the third quarter, sales started to pick up. By the fourth quarter they were back to historic norms. By the first quarter, dealers could not keep some popular models in stock.

Late last year, supply started to be a problem, for two reasons. The first was pure demand. The other was that the chips key to the electrical systems of cars became scarse. Some of the largest manufacturers had to close factory facilities. These dual issues caused inventory demands that drove prices of cars, light trucks, SUVs, and crossovers higher. People started to turn to used cars. Prices for those began to spike, too.

In the first half of the year most car companies had sales which were extraordinary compared to last year. However, the vehicles most American favored did not change much. The best selling vehicle of the period was the Ford F-Series full-size pick-up. It has topped the list of the best selling car in America for years. In the first six months of the year, Ford sold 362,032 units. (Among the most exciting pieces of car news this year is the Ford will introduce an electric version of the F-Series).

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The two vehicle that come behind the F-Series hold the same positions they have in recent years. And, they show the tremendous demand among American drivers for full-sized pick-ups. The Ram had units sales of 313,068. Sales of the Chevy Silverado were 286,410. The three have such a large lead over other car models at midyear that they are likely to hold the same positions for all of 2021.

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.