BTS | Table 1-19: Period Sales, Market Shares, and Sales-Weighted Fuel Economies of New Domestic and Imported Automobiles

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Table 1-19: Period Sales, Market Shares, and Sales-Weighted Fuel Economies of New Domestic and Imported Automobiles

(Thousands of vehicles)

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	1980	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Sales
TOTAL units	9,443	10,791	8,810	8,523	8,107	8,456	8,414	9,396	7,890	8,335	7,972	8,378	9,128	8,409	8,305	7,952	8,147	7,976	8,265
Small Cars	4,825	5,519	4,999	5,032	4,440	4,537	4,720	5,190	4,197	4,443	3,839	3,919	4,266	4,065	3,802	3,699	3,213	3,178	3,225
Midsize Cars	2,987	2,777	2,342	2,114	2,120	2,330	2,057	2,515	2,359	2,399	2,968	3,141	2,894	2,480	2,807	2,483	2,963	2,763	2625
Large Cars	963	1,512	1,092	1,012	1,240	1,103	1,277	1,306	1,066	1,195	913	1,059	1,665	1,416	1,252	1,261	1,278	1,343	1628
Small Wagons	310	496	160	209	143	301	206	198	90	149	99	78	68	212	236	338	380	353	452
Midsize Wagons	257	341	184	122	137	166	138	176	169	149	153	181	234	236	208	171	230	239	229
Large Wagons	102	145	31	34	27	19	16	10	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	83	100	105
Market share, percent
Small Cars	51.1	51.1	56.7	59.0	54.8	53.7	56.1	55.2	53.2	53.3	48.2	46.8	46.7	48.3	45.8	46.5	39.4	39.8	39.0
Midsize Cars	31.6	25.7	26.6	24.8	26.2	27.6	24.4	26.8	29.9	28.8	37.2	37.5	31.7	29.5	33.8	31.2	36.4	34.6	31.8
Large Cars	10.2	14.0	12.4	11.9	15.3	13.0	15.2	13.9	13.5	14.3	11.5	12.6	18.2	16.8	15.1	15.9	15.7	16.8	19.7
Small Wagons	3.3	4.6	1.8	2.5	1.8	3.6	2.4	2.1	1.1	1.8	1.2	0.9	0.7	2.5	2.8	4.3	4.7	4.4	5.5
Midsize Wagons	2.7	3.2	2.1	1.4	1.7	2.0	1.6	1.9	2.1	1.8	1.9	2.2	2.6	2.8	2.5	2.2	2.8	3.0	2.8
Large Wagons	1.1	1.3	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	1.3	1.3
Fuel economy, mpg
Fleet	23.8	27.3	28.0	28.2	27.9	28.4	28.3	28.6	28.5	28.7	28.7	28.3	28.3	28.6	28.8	29.1	29.1	29.4	29.0
Small Cars	26.1	29.8	29.8	30.0	30.0	30.5	30.4	30.7	30.8	30.9	30.9	30.3	30.3	30.7	30.7	30.6	30.7	30.8	30.3
Midsize Cars	21.6	24.9	26.2	26.0	25.8	26.1	25.9	26.1	26.5	26.5	27.1	27.1	27.0	27.2	27.7	28.3	28.8	29.4	29.3
Large Cars	19.1	22.3	23.7	23.6	23.8	24.2	24.1	24.5	24.3	24.5	24.6	24.8	25.6	25.4	26.0	26.0	25.8	26.2	25.7
Small Wagons	29	32.5	29.6	30.6	30.2	32.5	32.9	33.3	31.6	32.2	32.1	31.5	29.2	27.3	26.1	30.2	31.5	31.9	31.6
Midsize Wagons	21	25.2	25.3	25.9	26.2	26.2	26.0	26.6	26.3	26.3	26.2	26.3	27.3	26.6	27.4	27.2	27.3	26.6	26.6
Large Wagons	19	20.9	25.3	25.9	26.2	26.2	26.0	26.6	26.3	26.3	26.2	26.3	27.3	26.6	27.4	27.2	27.3	26.6	26.6

KEY: mpg = miles per gallon.

NOTE

Numbers may not add to totals due to rounding.

A new database is used in 2007 and all years have been updated with that data. These numbers are not comparable with previous editions of NTS

SOURCE

Light-Duty Vehicle MPG and Market Shares System Database, as cited in Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Transportation Energy Data Book, Edition 26, table 4.7, p. 4-7, and similar tables in earlier editions (Oak Ridge, TN).