List of 7 BEST SELLING CARS in the US

1. FORD MOTOR COMPANY-The Ford Motor Company has joint ventures: Ford Lio Ho and Changan Ford Mazda in China, AutoAlliance Thailand, Ford Otosan in Turkey, and Ford Sollersin Russia. The company has about 90 plants worldwide. Moreover Ford owns blocks of shares in Aston Martin (the United Kingdom), in Jiangling (China) and in Mazda (Japan). Besides cars and crossovers, hybrids and electrovehicles, the company produces buses and trucks, earlier it also manufactured tractors and components.

2. CHEVY-The Chevrolet Division of General Motors Company is known as Chevy. Louis Chevrolet and William C. Durant founde the Chevrolet Motor Car Company with the hepl of two investors William Little and Dr. Edwin R in 1911. The company was named after Swiss race car driver Louis Chevrolet. Initially Chevrolet-branded vehicles were sold at a reasonable price to compete with legendary Ford Model T and managed to outpace in 1929.

3. TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION-Toyota Motor Corporation was founded by Kiichiro Toyoda in 1937. Its headquarter is based in Toyota, Aichi, Japan. Toyota Motor Corporation is number one automotive manufacturer in Japan which produces more than 10 million cars every year. Toyota produces vans, trucks, sedans, coupes, hybrids, crossovers and all in all about 70 models are manufactured under its name. Moreeover Toyota is the largest manufacturer of hybrid electric vehicles.

4. HONDA-Honda is one of the best Japanese brands. Honda Motor Co., Ltd. produces automobiles, motorcycles, garden equipment, electrical generators, marine engines, robotics and other equipment. The motorcycle builder Soichiro Honda founded his company in Hamamatsu in 1948. Honda company manufactured motorcycles, achieved worldwide fame in the 1960s and made its debut with the first automobile, mini pick-up the T360 in 1963. In the 1970s the company began to produce fuel-efficient cars and in 1973 introduced the Civic model, which became very popular. In 1976 Accord went into the market and gained popularity in the U.S. Honda introduced its luxury brand, Acura, in 1986. Since the 1970s the company’s sales have grown exponentially and in 2014 Honda sold 1,373,029 cars in the United States with the market share of 8.3%.

5. NISSAN-Nissan produced its first Datsun in 1935. Its predecessor, Dat Car, was manufactured in 1914. Initially Nissan specialized in small passenger cars but during the WWII began to produce military vehicles and trucks. Throughout the 1950s-1960s Nissan expanded worldwide. New Datsun models Bluebird (1959), Cedric (1960) and Sunny (1966) gained popularity abroad and by 1970 Nissan became one of the largest exporters of automobiles in the world.

6. Hyundai Group and Kia Motors-Hyundai Group has the number of business units along with car manufacturing. Hyundai Motor Company was founded in 1967. Its headquarter is in Seoul, South Korea. Currently Hyundai Motor Company and Kia comprise the Hyundai Kia Automotive Group. Hyundai sold 725,718 cars in the U.S. in 2014 with the market share 4.4%.Kia Motors Corporation is one more South Korean most famous car maker along with Hyundai Motor and Daewoo Motor. Kia was formed in 1947 and produced steel tubing and bicycle parts. Later the company began to manufacture motorcycles, then trucks and in 1974 it set up car production.

7. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles- Jeep is currently owned by FCA US LLC which is a division of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. Its history of goes back to 1941. The first Willys MB Jeeps were the pioneers of sport utility vehicles. Initially only military vehicles were produced for the United States Army and Allies nevertheless throughout its history Jeep cars were manufactured for military and civil puproses and currently only off-road vehicles and SUVs are launched. 


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