The best-selling cars

Here are the Top 10 Best-Selling Cars, SUVs, Pickups and Crossovers for 2021

1. Ford F-Series, 726,004 Sold, Down 7.8%

The Ford F-Series was redesigned in 2020 for the 2021 model year. It’s still No.

1, despite Ford being short of product in 2021, because of the computer chip shortage.

However, the Ford F-Series lead over the Ram Pickup shrank in 2021, and the Ram Pickup overtook the Chevrolet Silverado as the No.

2 seller. At year-end, the F-Series lead over the Ram Pickup shrank by 30% vs. 2020, to 156,616.

2. Ram Pickup, 569,388 Sold, Up 1.0%

By a swing of 72,613 units vs. 2020, the Ram Pickup outsold the Chevy Silverado for 2021, to become the No.

2 best-seller for the year. It also closed some of the distance between itself and No. 1, the Ford F-Series.

The Ram Pickup was last redesigned in 2018 for the 2019 model year.

Nevertheless, it briefly outsold the more recently redesigned Ford F-Series, in the second quarter of 2021.

Ford being short of product was a factor.

3. Chevrolet Silverado, 519,774 Sold, Down 11.4%

Sales for the Chevy Silverado fell 36.3% in the fourth quarter, which dragged its sales for the full year below 2020.

Year to date through the third quarter, Chevy Silverado sales were virtually even with 2020.

Under the skin, the Chevrolet Silverado and the GMC Sierra share the same GM platform.

GM counts both together, and claims bragging rights for the Silverado and Sierra combined, as “full-size pickup sales leader” over the Ford F-Series.

4. Toyota RAV4, 407,739 Sold, Down 5.3%

Jack Hollis, senior vice president of automotive operations for Toyota Motor North America, called the Toyota RAV4 the “best-selling vehicle that’s not a pickup.”

Which it is, since this is the No. 4 seller and the top three have been Ford-Ram-Chevy pickups for years and years.

Sales for the Toyota RAV4 were down 26.2% in the fourth quarter vs. a year ago, probably because of the computer chip shortage.

The latest generation Toyota RAV4 debuted in December 2018, for gasoline models.

Gasoline-electric hybrid models followed, and in 2020, Toyota added a plug-in hybrid, the Toyota RAV4 Prime (with 40-plus miles of battery range).

Those additions have helped sustain interest in the RAV4 lineup, Hollis said in a phone interview.

5. Honda CR-V, 361,271, Up 8.3%

Honda rode out the early part of the computer chip shortage better than most brands, but eventually, the shortage caught up with Honda, too.

For example, Honda CR-V sales were down 26% in the fourth quarter vs. a year ago.

The Honda brand added a hybrid Honda CR-V in 2020, and that helped generate demand, said Michael Kistemaker, assistant vice president of Honda National Sales.

“CR-V was the main reason,” Honda had record light-truck sales in 2021, Kistemaker said in a phone interview.

6. Toyota Camry, 313,795, Up 6.6%

Toyota Camry sales were up for the full year, even though Toyota Camry sales were down 36.2% in the fourth quarter vs.

a year ago, largely due to the computer chip shortage. Jack Hollis, senior vice president of automotive operations for Toyota Motor North America

says Toyota is sticking with passenger cars, even though the domestic brands have largely quit offering cars except for specialty sports cars.

“We remain committed to passenger cars and passenger-car customers, and we believe there’s room to grow in this segment,” he said in a phone interview.

7. Nissan Rogue, 285,602 Sold, Up 25.3%

The Nissan Rogue is Nissan’s best-selling model in the U.S.market.

It has been a big seller since its redesign in 2020, for the 2021 model year.

Its sales fell 15.8% in the fourth quarter vs. a year ago, probably in part because of the computer chip shortage.

But before that, its sales were up more than 40% year to date through three first three quarters of 2021.

Nissan Rogue sales numbers also include the Nissan Rogue Sport, a smaller variant with different front-end exterior styling.

(Ford does the same thing with the F-Series, which includes F-150, F-250 and F-350.)

8. Jeep Grand Cherokee, 264,444 Sold, Up 26.1%

Jeep recently introduced an all-new, redesigned Jeep Grand Cherokee L, which helped generate demand for the nameplate.

The 2021 Jeep Grand Cherokee L has third-row seating for the first time, offering seats for six or seven.

The 2021 model year also includes the two-row Jeep Grand Cherokee, based on an older platform.

The 2022 Jeep Grand Cherokee also includes a plug-in hybrid version Jeep calls “4xe.”

9. Toyota Highlander, 264,128 Sold, Up 24.4%

For the full year, Toyota Highlander sales were up 24.4%. That’s all the more remarkable, considering its volume was down 34.4% in Q4, due to the chip shortage.

Through the first three quarters of 2021, Toyota Highlander sales were up 48.2%. The Toyota Highlander was redesigned in December 2019 for the 2020 model year.

10. Honda Civic, 263,787 Sold, Up 1%

The Honda Civic is in very short supply, said Michael Kistemaker, assistant vice president of Honda National Sales.

The Honda Civic includes a wide range of variants. “It’s almost like a brand of its own,” Kistemaker said in a phone interview,

ranging from entry-level models to the highest-performance variant, the redesigned Honda Civic Type R.

The latter reaches U.S. showrooms in “the next few months” of 2022, Kistemaker said.

The Honda Civic benefits from less competition from the domestic brands,

since they have all but stopped selling small cars, in favor of trucks. The Civic is the Forbes Wheels  Sedan of the Yea for 2022.

In this article, you have seen the rankings of 1 to 10 best-selling brands in the world in 2021 and the sales volume of each of them.