A few days ago, overseas statistical agencies released the 2021 US pickup truck market sales data, Ford F series, Ram pickup truck and Chevrolet Solod still occupy the top three positions, Nissan Frontierier, Jeep gladiator, Honda Ridgeline and other medium-sized pickup trucks after the replacement of sales performance is remarkable, Ford Maverick, Hyundai Santa Cruz and other emerging carrier pickup products have injected new vitality into the US market.
According to statistics, the annual sales volume of the U.S. pickup truck market in 2021 reached 2842479, compared with the 2934706 in 2020, a year-on-year decrease of 3.14. In the first half of 2021, the sales volume of the US pickup truck market increased by as much as 14% year-on-year, and after entering the second half of the year, it was hit by the double blow of the epidemic and chip shortage, and failed to continue the growth trend in the first half of the year.
The Ford F-Series has occupied the top spot in the U.S. sales charts for many consecutive years, and sales of Ford F-series pickup trucks reached 726003 in 2021, down 7.8% from 2020. The decline in sales of Ford pickup trucks this year is largely due to the epidemic, chip shortages and other problems that have led to successive factory shutdowns affecting overall production capacity. But even so, Ford still maintained a huge lead over Ram and Chevrolet Solod, with a lead of about 156,000 vehicles. At present, Ford's F-150, Raptor, Ranger three products have been upgraded, the new product MMaverick has already begun to deliver, the future Ford will still maintain the status of pickup truck sales leader.
2021 is undoubtedly a success for Ram, not only as it is one of the few brands in the U.S. market that has year-on-year sales growth, but also surpasses Chevrolet Solod to become second place. In 2021, Ram pickup trucks sold 569389 new cars, an increase of 1.01% over last year, reversing the decline of up to 11% year-on-year in 2020. Ram launched last year enough to shake the Raptor performance pickup truck king status of Ram TRX, so that Ford felt great pressure, this year Ram and rumors will launch small and medium-sized pickup products, its first electric pickup Truck Ram 1500 EV is also set for 2024, a full range of ford impact, perhaps one day in the future we have the opportunity to witness ford pickup trucks from the US market to sell the throne.
In 2021, Chevrolet Solod sold 529765 new cars, down 9.7% year-on-year, the market ranking fell from second to third, and the pattern between the three giants of the United States was also broken with the sudden rise of Ram. However, if you calculate the manufacturer group, GM's Chevrolet and GMC brand sales are the highest sales companies in the US market. Chevrolet has not done much action this year, the 2022 Chevrolet Solod model as a mid-term modification product, its upgrade point is relative to Ram and Ford is lackluster, even if the launch of the Sorod ZR2 off-road performance version has not attracted widespread attention, the overall sound compared to Ford and Ram is insufficient.
Toyota Tacoma ranks fourth as the king of mid-size pickup trucks in the United States, with cumulative sales of 252,490 units in 2021, an increase of 5.73% year-on-year, and is the leader of the second group in the U.S. pickup truck market. Tacoma has been the top seller of midsize pickup trucks in the United States for many years, and it is also the only product of Toyota pickup trucks that has been successful in the United States, and is more popular than its big brother Toyota Tantu. A few days ago, Toyota announced the development strategy of electrification, which includes an electric pickup truck product, which is speculated to be an electric version of Tacoma.
It was followed by the GMC Sierra, which was upgraded in October last year, and the GMC Sierra, which represents the American full-size luxury pickup truck, sold 248923 units for the whole year, down 1.62% year-on-year. It is worth mentioning that GMC released a Hummer EV pickup truck last year, with strong performance and rich configuration, with the current official entry into the delivery period, GMC Sierra electric pickup truck will also be released in the near future, I believe that GMC brand pickup sales still have room to rise.
Ford Ranger, the leader of the third group, sold 94,755 vehicles in 2021, down 6.63% year-on-year and below the 100,000-unit mark. Jeep Gladiator, Nissan Frontier and Honda Ridgeline, which are also medium-sized pickups, performed well, all handing over year-on-year growth report cards, with growth rates of 15.69%, 64.74% and 28.56% respectively, and all three products have been upgraded in the past two years. The sales results of the other two American mid-size pickup trucks, the Chevrolet Kurod and GMC Canyon, are also not optimistic, with Kurod selling 73,008 new cars in 2021, down 24.14% year-on-year; Canyon selling 24,125 new cars in 2021, down 4.23% year-on-year.
The two major Japanese full-size pickup trucks Toyota Tantu and Nissan Titan have seen diametrically opposite situations in 2021, with the Nissan Titan selling 27,406 new cars, an increase of 3.66% year-on-year, showing a trend of bottoming out, but there are rumors that Nissan is preparing to abandon the Titan pickup truck and will not have the next generation of models. Toyota Tantu is still in an endless decline, 2021 annual sales of 81959 vehicles, down 24.95% year-on-year, but the current new generation of Toyota Tantu has been officially listed, the new car from the inside out has been fully upgraded, power performance and configuration level are benchmarked Ford F-150, I believe that with the reversal of Toyota in the field of full-size pickup trucks decline.
The two information-carrying pickups, the Ford Maverick and hyundai Santa Cruz, have also shown good momentum. Ford Maverick has gained widespread consumer attention by relying on The Ford endorsement, and its reputation is even better than that of the new generation Ranger, and it is expected to set off a new trend in the US pickup truck market in the future. As a pure SUV pickup, the Hyundai Santa Cruz is also gradually increasing monthly sales, even surpassing nissan titans and GMC Canyon.
In the future, with the release of new energy products such as Tesla Cyberruck, Rivian R1T, Ford F-150 EV, and GM Hummer EV, it is believed that the US pickup truck market will produce greater trend changes. When the trend of energy conservation and environmental protection and new energy becomes the mainstream of the development of the truck industry, perhaps the large-displacement V8 engine will gradually take a back seat, and the new pickup truck equipped with motor or hybrid power may become the new darling of the market.