Four out of every ten new vehicles sold in May 2015 in the United States by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles were Jeeps, ten years after Jeep accounted for just 20% of Chrysler Group’s U.S. sales.
The automaker’s 4% year-over-year improvement was powered in large part by Jeep’s 13% gain. FCA volume improved by 8,000 units despite a 58% decrease in minivan volume. How’d they do it?
FCA’s midsize car volume more than doubled, Ram sales rose 12% (including an 8% pickup improvement), and Jeep volume jumped 13% to an all-time high of 79,652 U.S. sales with nearly across-the-board increases.
That 13% Jeep jump represents a 9,449 unit increase for the brand, helped along by the Wrangler’s own all-time monthly record (and an increase of 3,089 sales compared with May 2014), another all-time record from the Cherokee, and improved Grand Cherokee and Patriot sales.
The Renegade contributed, too, with 4,416 May sales. Since March, 9,573 Renegades have been sold in America. Yet even without the Renegade, Jeep sales in May still broke the previous record set in April, and the record set before that, in March.
Timothy Cain is the founder of GoodCarBadCar.net, which obsesses over the free and frequent publication of U.S. and Canadian auto sales figures. Follow on Twitter @goodcarbadcar and on Facebook.
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