Large SUV Sales In America - 2009 Year End

2008 Toyota Sequoia
There's no denying that the U.S. auto market, along with the economy, took a dive in 2009. Overall auto sales were down 21% to just 10.4 million units.

The decline among full-size SUVs, however, was far worse, as Chrysler gave up on its Aspen and Dodge Durango, Nissan Armada volume fell below 10,000 units, Ford sold only 31,655 Expeditions, and GM only managed 160,539 sales of the Suburban, Tahoe, Yukon, and Yukon XL. Together with the Cadillac Escalade and Escalade ESV, full-size SUVs accounted for just 8.9% of overall GM new vehicle sales in 2009.

2.3% of the new vehicles sold in the United States in 2009 are represented in the list below. And while the market for new vehicles has improved dramatically since 2009 - 2013's market size was 49% better - the appetite for these big SUVs hasn't really returned to any great degree: sales in 2013 were up just 11%.

You can click any model name in the tables below to find historical monthly and yearly U.S. auto sales data. You can also select a make and model at GCBC's Sales Stats page. This table is sortable, so you can rank large sport-utility vehicles any which way you like.

Click Column Headers To Sort • 2010 Year End2008 Year End
SUV
2009
2008
%
Change
41,055
54,058-24.1%
73,254
91,578-20.0%
5996
22,254-73.1%
3521
21,420-83.6%
31,655
55,123-42.6%
29,411
39,064-24.7%
16,819
26,404-36.3%
10,530
1869463%
9903
15,685-36.9%
16,387
30,693-46.6%
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Total
235,531
358,148-34.2%
Source: Automakers

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