Ford F-Series Outsells Everything in 2017

The Ford F-Series outsold all other trucks in America for the 41^st-straight year while outselling every other vehicle in the market for the 36^th-straight year.

This morning, Ford Motor Company published their sales figures for December 2017 and the year as a whole. Not surprisingly, the F-Series pickup was the best-selling vehicle within the Motor Company while also being the best-selling truck in America and the best-selling overall vehicle in the US market.

Ford Leads All Truck Sales in 2017

In 2017, Ford sold 896,764 examples of their F-Series pickups. That is an improvement of 9.3-percent over the 820,799 trucks sold in 2016 and 2017 is the best sales year for the F-Series since 2005. In second place within the truck segment is the Chevrolet Silverado at 585,864 units sold and the Ram pickup is third with 500,723 units sold, so Ford beat Chevy and Ram by a massive margin.

In fact, if you add up the sales numbers of both full-size General Motors pickups, GM moved a total of 803,807 big trucks in 2017. Based on that total, the Ford F-Series pickup outsold the Silverado and Sierra combined by almost 93,000 units.

There were 2,828,838 trucks sold in America last year, so the Ford F-Series accounted for nearly a third of the entire segment. We can expect all of those Ford numbers to improve one the new Ranger hits the market, but in the meantime, the F-Series dominates the American truck market all by itself.

2017 marks the 41^st-consecutive year that the F-Series has led truck sales in the United States.

Truck Sales Totals for 2017:
Ford F-Series- 896,764
Chevrolet Silverado- 585,864
Ram Pickup- 500,723
GMC Sierra- 217,943
Toyota Tacoma- 198,124
Toyota Tundra- 116,285
Chevrolet Colorado- 112,996
Nissan Frontier- 74,360
Nissan Titan- 52,924
Honda Ridgeline- 34,749
GMC Canyon- 32106

Ford Leads All Cars, Too

In addition to outselling every truck in America, the Ford pickup was also the best-selling vehicle overall for 2017. The Silverado and Ram pickup finished second and third in the overall sales race, with the Toyota RAV4 finishing fourth with 407,594 units sold and the Toyota Camry is once again the best-selling car, finishing fifth overall with 387,081 units sold last year.

In short, the best-selling truck in America beat the best-selling car in America by more than a half-million units while beating the best-selling SUV by nearly 490,000 units.

2017 is the 36^th-straight year where the Ford F-Series outsold every other car, truck and SUV in America.

The Best-Selling Vehicles in America for 2017:
Ford F-Series- 896,764
Chevrolet Silverado- 585,864
Ram Pickup- 500,723
Toyota RAV- 407,594
Toyota Camry- 387,081

Patrick Rall

"Before I was old enough to walk, my dad was taking me to various types of racing events, from local drag racing to the Daytona 500," says Patrick Rall, a lifetime automotive expert, diehard Dodge fan, and respected auto journalist for over 10 years. "He owned a repair shop and had a variety of performance cars when I was young, but by the time I was 16, he was ready to build me my first drag car – a 1983 Dodge Mirada that ran low 12s. I spent 10 years traveling around the country, racing with my dad by my side. While we live in different areas of the country, my dad still drag races at 80 years old in the car that he built when I was 16 while I race other vehicles, including my 2017 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat and my 1972 Dodge Demon 340.

"Although I went to college for accounting, my time in my dad’s shop growing up allowed me the knowledge to spend time working as a mechanic before getting my accounting degree, at which point I worked in the office of a dealership group. While I was working in the accounting world, I continued racing and taking pictures of cars at the track. Over time, I began showing off those pictures online and that led to my writing.

"Ten years ago, I left the accounting world to become a full-time automotive writer and I am living proof that if you love what you do, you will never “work” a day in your life," adds Rall, who has clocked in time as an auto mechanic, longtime drag racer and now automotive journalist who contributes to nearly a dozen popular auto websites dedicated to fellow enthusiasts.

"I love covering the automotive industry and everything involved with the job. I was fortunate to turn my love of the automotive world into a hobby that led to an exciting career, with my past of working as a mechanic and as an accountant in the automotive world provides me with a unique perspective of the industry.

"My experience drag racing for more than 20 years coupled with a newfound interest in road racing over the past decade allows me to push performance cars to their limit, while my role as a horse stable manager gives me vast experience towing and hauling with all of the newest trucks on the market today.

"Being based on Detroit," says Rall, "I never miss the North American International Auto Show, the Woodward Dream Cruise and Roadkill Nights, along with spending plenty of time raising hell on Detroit's Woodward Avenue with the best muscle car crowd in the world.

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