Notice a trend here? All but one of the top sellers are crew cabs, all but one of the slowest are reg and extended cabs. Fastest-Selling PickupsRam 1500 Crew Cab, 12 days supplyChevrolet Colorado Crew Cab, 16GMC Canyon Crew Cab, 16Toyota Tacoma Extended Cab, 17Toyota Tacoma Crew Cab, 18Toyota Tundra Crew Cab, 19Toyota Tundra CrewMax, 22Ram 3500 Heavy Duty Crew Cab, 23GMC Sierra 2500 Denali Crew Cab, 24GMC Sierra 3500 Denali Crew Cab, 24Slowest-Selling PickupsChevrolet Silverado 2500 Extended Cab, 89 days supplyGMC Sierra 3500 Regular Cab, 86GMC Sierra 2500 Extended Cab, 80Chevrolet Silverado 2500 Regular Cab, 64Ford F-250 Crew Cab, 58Ford F-350 Regular Cab, 55Chevrolet Silverado 3500 Extended Cab, 54Chevrolet Silverado 2500 Crew Cab, 52GMC Sierra 2500 Crew Cab, 51Ford F-250 Regular Cab, 51LINK

I would say a lot of how long a vehicle sits on the lot has a lot to do with availability. The Ram 1500 got way behind so a lot of trucks were delivered as soon as the hit the lot.

It makes sense since most pickups are used as family haulers or daily drivers the majority of the time. Crew cabs work best for that.

Other factors:Marketing projects what they 'think' they will sell, so the dealer orders accordinglyDitto Marketing within the OEMs...so they build more of thoseThen those two are factored by the localities that the stock is sent toIt would be interesting to then compare these numbers with the salesnumbers and in stock numbers with what took the hit in sales becausefolks moved or are moving to CrewCabsThen the increase, initially, numbers of fender benders, scraps, etcfrom the newbies first few months behind the wheel of vehicles over3 feet longer than they are used to...

There likely is some correlation but supply chain and marketing projections can easily skew these numbers.

Most trucks are work trucks. Crew cabs means more workers per truck. That's why one can typically find a lot more white crew cabs than anything else (at least in MD and VA). Also, its the end of the year. Many small businesses try to reduce their tax load by spending on deductible assets."Certain vehicles (with a gross vehicle weight rating above 6,000 lbs but no more than 14,000 lbs) qualify for expensing up to $25,000 if the vehicle is financed and placed in service prior to December 31 and meet other conditions."

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gijoecam
Explorer
Dec 19, 2014
wintersun wrote:
All the companies want bragging rights which is why Ford even goes so far as to include F-450 sales with its F-250 and F-350 trucks to boost the number of units sold each year. The F-150 is the top selling 1500 class truck but it is the Ram 2500/3500 that are the best selling in this segment and the units are greater than for Ford and GM/Chevy combined. Another trick I have seen is where Ford compares its numbers to Chevy but leaves out the GM trucks from the tally.

Not sure where you got your information from, but the 2013 data suggests otherwise (with regards to 3/4 and 1-ton trucks)

http://news.pickuptrucks.com/2014/04/who-sold-the-most-pickups-in-2013.

Ford is the sales leader in any individual segment across the board. Even if you combine GMC and Chevrolet sales, the only place they edge-out Ford is in the 1/2-ton line-up alone.

I'm pretty confident that this year's numbers will play out in a similar manner. I've got a list in front of me that list the top selling vehicles through December 2nd, and the F-series is, of course, the leader with 679,496 units. Chevy Silverado is trailing at 471,918, Ram comes in at 395,988, and GMC Sierra is at 188,397 units. Even if you combine the GMC and Checy sales, Ford still has the lead, and I wouldn't expect that to change in the last four weeks of the year barring an all-out stop-sale by Ford.
Cummins12V98
Explorer III
Dec 18, 2014
hone eagle wrote:
I was joshing you and the pulpit you place the pickup with the 'little' cummins.
We call them LGT's.
and ya the pictures look out of proportion to me. :-)

Yea i thought it was funny and then realized I had pic's to match! When I first looked at the pic with the truck in the background I thought holy cow that RV is huge. Then in the next pic not so much!
hone_eagle
Explorer
Dec 18, 2014
Dadoffourgirls wrote:
I wonder where cars.com and pickups.com obtains their data.

I raised those questions previously when their charts were used.

I know that they do not obtain them from the OEMs, because they are not completely accurate.

Thats right ,pretty sure Ford does not separate theSD F series trucks from the 1/2 tons.
How far off do you think they are?
Dadoffourgirls
Explorer
Dec 18, 2014
I wonder where cars.com and pickups.com obtains their data.

I raised those questions previously when their charts were used.

I know that they do not obtain them from the OEMs, because they are not completely accurate.
hone_eagle
Explorer
Dec 18, 2014
I was joshing you and the pulpit you place the pickup with the 'little' cummins.
We call them LGT's.
and ya the pictures look out of proportion to me. :-)
Cummins12V98
Explorer III
Dec 18, 2014
hone eagle wrote:
Most of the MobileSuites I see are at the HDT rally in Tenn (crossville) every Apr. Its weird to see one behind a pick-up :-)

Weird like this?

Or like this?
hone_eagle
Explorer
Dec 18, 2014
Most of the MobileSuites I see are at the HDT rally in Tenn (crossville) every Apr. Its weird to see one behind a pick-up :-)
Cummins12V98
Explorer III
Dec 18, 2014
hone eagle wrote:
Ram needs to build another plant ,they are supply constrained.
nice chart ib.
cummins - i have never seen the dually trucks broke out in a separate chart ,would be interesting , though I doubt it would change much of what ib posted.

A reason for my curiosity is on the MobileSuites Forum 3 years ago when I joined the vast majority of trucks (99% are Dually's) were F350/450's and now they are rapidly being replaced with Ram's and GM's. These people really use their trucks with large loads all the time and are mostly full timers VS weekend warriors.
Cummins12V98
Explorer III
Dec 18, 2014
ford truck guy wrote:
Cummins12V98

I am thinking that they are lumped in with the 3500/350 SRW all at the 1 ton category... just my guess ?????

I would guess you are correct! I am biased, I only care about the Dually's!
BenK
Explorer
Dec 17, 2014
Never one to part of any large herd...prefer fringe to smaller herds...

Not blindly loyal either, though do have preferences over other badges

All I really care about is that whatever I own, likely to own, or order...sells
in high enough volumes to have a good supply line, commodity pricing and lots
of places to purchase them

Whizzy Bang stuff stuff like GM's rear steering axle would be only 'okay' if
the kept building them for a looooong time with a good supply line out into the
future...but they killed it after about 10 or so years. So the parts supply line
will be short and junk yards becoming the best/only source