Total Vehicle Sales in the United States decreased to 15.30 Million in October from 16.40 Million in September of 2025. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - United States Total Vehicle Sales - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

The U.S. auto industry sold nearly ************* cars in 2024. That year, total car and light truck sales were approximately ************ in the United States. U.S. vehicle sales peaked in 2016 at roughly ************ units. Pandemic impact The COVID-19 pandemic deeply impacted the U.S. automotive market, accelerating the global automotive semiconductor shortage and leading to a drop in demand during the first months of 2020. However, as demand rebounded, new vehicle supply could not keep up with the market. U.S. inventory-to-sales ratio dropped to its lowest point in February 2022, as Russia's war on Ukraine lead to gasoline price hikes. During that same period, inflation also impacted new and used car prices, pricing many U.S. consumers out of a market with increasingly lower car stocks. Focus on fuel economy The U.S. auto industry had one of its worst years in 1982 when customers were beginning to feel the effects of the 1973 oil crisis and the energy crisis of 1979. Since light trucks would often be considered less fuel-efficient, cars accounted for about ** percent of light vehicle sales back then. Thanks to improved fuel economy for light trucks and cheaper gas prices, this picture had completely changed in 2020. That year, prices for Brent oil dropped to just over ** U.S. dollars per barrel. The decline occurred in tandem with lower gasoline prices, which came to about **** U.S. dollars per gallon in 2020 - and cars only accounted for less than one-fourth of light vehicle sales that year. Four years on, prices are dropping again, after being the highest on record since 1990 in 2022.

This dataset provides comprehensive information about used cars available for sale in the United States. It includes detailed data on various aspects of each vehicle, making it a valuable resource for car buyers, sellers, and data enthusiasts. The dataset contains the following key attributes:

• Brand: The brand or manufacturer of the car.
• Model: The specific model of the car.
• Mileage: The number of miles the car has been driven.
• Year: The manufacturing year of the car.
• Status: Indicates whether the car is new, used, or certified pre-owned.
• Dealer: Information about the dealer or seller offering the car.
• Price: The listed price of the car in USD.

This dataset is ideal for data analysis, machine learning projects, and market research related to the used car industry in the United States. Whether you are interested in predicting car prices, understanding market trends, or simply searching for your next vehicle, this dataset provides a wealth of information to explore.

Data Source: More info on my GitHub repository

Data Format: CSV

In 2024, the auto industry in the United States sold approximately 15.9 million light vehicle units. This figure includes retail sales of about three million passenger cars and just under 12.9 million light trucks. Lower fuel consumption There are many kinds of light vehicles available in the United States. Light-duty vehicles are popular for their utility and improved fuel economy, making them an ideal choice for savvy consumers. As of Model Year 2023, the light vehicle manufacturer with the best overall miles per gallon was Kia, with one gallon of gas allowing for 30.4 miles on the road. Higher brand satisfaction When asked about light vehicle satisfaction, consumers in the United States were most satisfied with Toyota, Subaru, Tesla, and Mercedes-Benz models. Another survey conducted in 2018 and quizzing respondents on their stance regarding the leading car brands indicated that Lexus was among the most dependable brands based on the number of problems reported per 100 vehicles.

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Autos include all passenger cars, including station wagons. The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis releases auto and truck sales data, which are used in the preparation of estimates of personal consumption expenditures.

At around 1.2 million unit sales, light trucks remained the largest U.S. auto market segment in August 2025, up from around 1.1 million unit sales in August 2024. Global chip shortage affects supply The second quarter of 2020 saw a significant drop in automotive sales volume compared to the year before. Most of the disruption was seen in May, before restrictions to curtail the coronavirus pandemic were lifted. Sales showed signs of recovery in the following months, before dropping again in 2021. The industry's inventory-to-sales ratio nosedived in May 2020, and has not fully recovered since. Supply issues were not felt as strongly across the automotive sector, while car demand was low due to national lockdowns brought on by the pandemic. However, as consumers' purchasing intentions picked up, vehicle stocks could not meet the new demand due to chip shortages, which led to production halts and cuts. U.S. vehicle sales gain momentum thanks to light truck sales As the year 2020 came to an end, motor vehicle sales in the United States finished on a high note. Following the Covid-19 disruption, the U.S. auto sector began to recover in the third quarter. However, the semiconductor shortage and global inflation further impacted sales in 2021 and 2022. In contrast, 2024 was an encouraging year. U.S. motor vehicle sales grew to over 15.8 million that year, which was the highest it had been since the onset of the pandemic. This jump in sales was partly due to light truck retail sales, which exceeded their pre-pandemic level in 2024.

This driver tracks the number of new vehicles, including cars and light trucks, purchased in the United States in a given year. Data is sourced from the US Bureau of Economic Analysis and is forecast using data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).

Key information about United States Motor Vehicle Sales: Passenger Cars

• United States Motor Vehicle Sales: Passenger Cars was reported at 2,984,039.000 Unit in Dec 2024.
• This records a decrease from the previous number of 3,116,647.000 Unit for Dec 2023.
• US Motor Vehicle Sales: Passenger Cars data is updated yearly, averaging 7,689,110.000 Unit from Dec 2005 to 2024, with 20 observations.
• The data reached an all-time high of 7,761,592.000 Unit in 2006 and a record low of 2,858,575.000 Unit in 2022.
• US Motor Vehicle Sales: Passenger Cars data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by International Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers.
• The data is categorized under World Trend Plus’s Association: Automobile Sector – Table RA.OICA.MVS: Motor Vehicle Sales: by Country and Type: Passenger Car (PC).

Detailed Dataset Description: Car Sales Transactional Data This dataset provides a rich, multi-dimensional view of individual car sales transactions, capturing valuable information across customer demographics, car specifications, pricing metrics, payment details, sales performance, and seasonal or regional context. Each row in the dataset represents a single car sale transaction, allowing for granular-level analysis of how various factors influence profitability, sales trends, and customer behavior.

📅 Date & Temporal Context Date: The exact date of the transaction, allowing daily trend analysis.

Sale Year, Month, Quarter, Day of Week, and Season: These columns offer temporal segmentation that helps identify seasonal patterns, monthly performance, and weekday vs weekend trends.

🧑‍💼 Salesperson and Customer Information Salesperson: Identifies the individual responsible for the sale, useful for tracking salesperson performance, commission analysis, and productivity metrics.

Customer Name, Age, and Gender: Offers demographic insights, enabling segmentation by age group and gender, and understanding customer preferences in vehicle types and pricing.

🚗 Vehicle Details Car Make and Model: Specifies the brand and specific vehicle model sold.

Car Year: Indicates the model year of the vehicle, helpful in analyzing the popularity of newer vs older models.

💵 Financial and Sales Metrics Quantity: Number of cars sold in the transaction (typically 1, but can vary in business fleet cases).

Sale Price and Cost: Gross sale price and internal cost incurred by the dealership.

Profit: Computed as the difference between sale price and cost, giving direct insight into transaction-level profitability.

Discount: Shows the discount offered as a decimal (e.g., 0.05 = 5%), aiding in understanding the impact of promotions on sales.

💳 Payment & Incentive Structure Payment Method: Indicates how the customer paid (e.g., Cash, Loan, Credit), helping identify payment preferences over time or across customer types.

Commission Rate & Commission Earned: Details the salesperson's incentive structure and earnings from the sale, supporting analysis of commission efficiency, reward optimization, and employee motivation.

🌎 Geographic Coverage Sales Region: Highlights the physical region where the sale occurred (e.g., Alaska), allowing for regional performance comparison, mapping in BI tools, and assessing market penetration across different areas.

Use Cases and Applications This dataset can be effectively used for:

Business Intelligence Dashboards (e.g., Tableau, Power BI)

Sales & Profitability Analysis

Customer Demographics and Segmentation

Payment Method Trends

Salesperson Performance Monitoring

Seasonal Demand Forecasting

Regional Sales Comparisons

Commission Strategy Optimization

Its wide coverage across multiple dimensions makes it ideal for predictive modeling, trend visualization, and data storytelling in sales, marketing, and operations

Graph and download economic data for Light Weight Vehicle Sales: Autos and Light Trucks (ALTSALES) from Jan 1976 to Aug 2025 about light weight, trucks, vehicles, new, sales, and USA.

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Worldwide car sales grew to around ** million automobiles in 2024, up from around **** million units in 2023. Throughout 2020 and 2021, the sector experienced a downward trend on the back of a slowing global economy, while COVID-19 and the Russian war on Ukraine contributed to shortages in the automotive semiconductor industry and further supply chain disruptions in 2022. Despite these challenges, 2023 and 2024 sales surpassed pre-pandemic levels and are forecast to keep rising through 2025 and 2026. Covid-19 hits car demand It had been estimated pre-pandemic that international car sales were on track to reach ** million. While 2023 sales are still far away from that goal, this was the first year were car sales exceeded pre-pandemic values. The automotive market faced various challenges in 2023, including supply shortages, automotive layoffs, and strikes in North America. However, despite these hurdles, the North American market was among the fastest-growing regions in 2024, along with Eastern Europe and Asia, as auto sales in these regions increased year-on-year. Chinese market recovers After years of double-digit growth, China's economy began to lose steam in 2022, and recovery has been slow through 2023. China was the largest automobile market based on sales with around **** million units in 2023. However, monthly car sales in China were in free-fall in April 2022 partly due to shortages, fears over a looming recession, and the country grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic. By June of that same year, monthly sales in China were closer to those recorded in 2021.

Sales of used light vehicles in the United States came to around **** million units in 2024. In the same period, approximately **** million new light trucks and automobiles were sold here. Declining availability of vehicles In the fourth quarter of 2024, about ***** million vehicles were in operation in the United States, an increase of around *** percent year-over-year. The rising demand for vehicles paired with an overall price inflation lead to a rise in new vehicle prices. In contrast, used vehicle prices slightly decreased. E-commerce: a solution for the bumpy road ahead? Financial reports have revealed how the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic has triggered a shift in vehicle-buying behavior. With many consumer goods and services now bought online due to COVID-19, the automobile industry has also started to digitally integrate its services online to reach consumers with a preference for contactless test driving amid the global crisis. Several dealers and automobile companies had already begun to tap into online car sales before the pandemic, some of them being Carvana and Tesla.

This dataset included Information about 43 brands, and 445 models of vehicles for sale in the US. The period is from 2013 to 2022 Data source: www.goodcarbadcar.net, www.marklines.com/en/vehicle_sales/index

In 2022, U.S. auto shoppers bought approximately 2.86 million autos. Meanwhile, light trucks accounted for more than 79 percent of light vehicles sold to individual customers and corporate fleets in the United States.

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United States - Total Vehicle Sales was 16.49200 Mil. of Units in August of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - Total Vehicle Sales reached a record high of 22.05500 in October of 2001 and a record low of 8.94400 in April of 2020. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - Total Vehicle Sales - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on November of 2025.

Crossovers are Americans’ favorite type of passenger vehicle. This category accounts for over ** percent of automobile sales in the United States as of June 2022. The most popular models include Honda’s CR-V, Nissan’s Rogue, and Toyota’s RAV4. In the first quarter of 2022, U.S. auto buyers bought just under ******* units of Toyota’s RAV4 model, making it the best-selling vehicle in this category. Toyota is the market leader   The RAV4 was one of the very first specimens of its kind, as production of this model began in 1994. Toyota was the second most valuable automotive manufacturer worldwide in 2022, with a brand value of just over **** billion dollars. It followed Tesla, which was first in the ranking with a gap of over ** billion dollars compared to the runner-up. Toyota’s net revenue rose to **** trillion Japanese yen in 2022 (around *** billion U.S. dollars as of March 2022 exchange rates), a visible growth of over ** percent compared to 2021, despite the manufacturer being impacted by the global automotive chip shortage.  Crossovers benefit from the shift away from sedans   Crossover SUVs (sport utility vehicles) combine the fuel efficiency levels of compact and midsized cars and the higher seating positions of light trucks. They gained in popularity when fuel prices were low and, consequently, automakers increased production volumes and model additions of this vehicle type. Between 2014 and 2021, U.S. car sales fell from over *** million to around **** million units. Concurrently, light truck sales increased from *** million units in 2014 to close to **** million units in 2021. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on vehicle demand led to a *** percent drop in light truck sales in 2020. This drop in vehicle sales impacted countries across the globe. In 2020, Germany recorded a loss of over ******* sales of SUVs compared to 2019, whereas China’s new SUV registrations remained stable between the two years.

United States EIA Projection: New Car Sales data was reported at 5,149.021 Unit th in 2050. This records a decrease from the previous number of 5,181.587 Unit th for 2049. United States EIA Projection: New Car Sales data is updated yearly, averaging 5,557.171 Unit th from Dec 2022 (Median) to 2050, with 29 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 6,463.062 Unit th in 2026 and a record low of 5,149.021 Unit th in 2050. United States EIA Projection: New Car Sales data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by U.S. Energy Information Administration. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.RA010: New Vehicle Sales: Projection.