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The F-150 might be the best selling vehicle, but are trucks the largest selling segment?

Yes.

"light-truck share at 51.2 percent with sales up 10.4 percent from last year." https://www.nada.org/Publications/NADADATA/

“light trucks” is a category that includes both things that are obviously “trucks” (F-150, Tacoma, Ram, etc) and things that no sane person would ever call a truck in casual conversation, but are classified as such by the manufacturer (Outback, CR-V, Odyssey, etc).

I think that has changed since 2006ish. Outback/CR-V, etc are now classified as Crossovers (at least for sales purposes).

The light duty truck classification has to do with loaded weight rather than anything else as far as I remember... But maybe that has changed also?

I thought I remembered something like that too, but when I looked around I found lots of announcements like the following (July 2013): "Honda light trucks posted record June sales on the strength of CR-V, Pilot and Odyssey”. (To say nothing of the absurdity that > 50% of Acura sales are “trucks”).

http://www.honda.com/newsandviews/article.aspx?id=7269-en

Haha that is pretty funny! And I thought somehow some minor semblance of sanity had been introduced. Fool me once... Point is can't get fooled again.

Directly from the report linked off that page: "In 2013, pickups held a market share of 13.6 percent of light-vehicle sales and 26.6 percent of light-truck sales"

From the accompanying graph, it looks like the definition of "light-truck" includes crossovers, SUVs, vans, and pickups.

https://www.nada.org/NR/rdonlyres/AAD0D79A-7C46-489F-B738-81...

Yes

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