It's official: May's unusual sales figures were no one-time fluke. Although Honda's Accord and Civic and Toyota's Camry and Corolla are fixtures of the top-10 best-seller list, only the Camry achieved that in June after all four were shut out the previous month, according to sales data released Friday.
The Accord, Civic and Corolla sales each trailed their respective competitors from each General Motors, Ford and Hyundai. The Camry, often the best-selling passenger-car in the U.S. and rarely finishing south of the No. 3 slot overall was the seventh-best-seller in June, remaining well behind the competing Chevrolet Malibu midsize sedan and a variety of pickups, economy cars and a small SUV.
The best-selling Honda -- the newly redesigned 2012 Civic -- netted only 15th place in June 2011 sales.
Chevrolet grabbed three of the top four slots for June 2011, with its Silverado pickup, Cruze compact car and the Malibu, respectively, slotting only behind the typically dominant Ford F-Series pickup line. The Malibu was May's best-selling passenger car, unseated in June only by another Chevy.
Over the longer term -- the entire first half of 2011 -- sales still follow the more typical trends of Honda and Toyota passenger cars holding dominant positions. In recent months, those Japanese automakers have been shaken both by production disruptions following the Japanese earthquake and, in the compact class in particular, by tougher competition from U.S. and Korea.
See the full Top-20 best-seller sales charts for June 2011 and for the first half of 2011 year-to-date in today's slideshow, and check back soon for top 10 best-seller lists by individual market classes.
See also:
Top 20 best-selling cars of May 2011
Top 10 best-selling cars of May 2011, by class
Top 20 best-selling cars of June 2010
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