Sales of large sedans are down 13% in the first half of 2022, in an overall market down 18%. As a result, large sedans now make up 1.8% of the US car market with just under 120,000 deliveries, up from 1.6% in the first half of 2021. In the second quarter, the large sedan segment was down 6% in an overall market down 21%.
Luxury models gain share of the class again as they’re down 2% and they now hold 51.4% of the large cars segment, up almost 6 percentage points on 2021.
The Dodge Charger is down 9% and gains 1.6 percentage points of share of the class to 32.3%. It was up 3% in the second quarter. Thanks to the addition of the Plaid version, the Tesla Model S jumps to 2nd place overall, ahead of the BMW 5-Series (-28%) which stays ahead of the Mercedes-Benz E-Class (-36%) by only 3 deliveries, after the latter outsold the 5-Series in Q2. The Toyota Avalon outsold them both in Q2 but remains behind for the first half of the year as it had a very slow start of 2022. The Chrysler 300 is down 31% but manages to stay above the Cadillac CT5 despite a 10% gain for the latter (and +70% in Q2).
Big losers ar the Nissan Maxima at -62% (and -83% in Q2), Audi A6 at -63% and Audi A7 at -51%, as the former is now outsold by the Porsche Taycan EV whihc moves into 8th place overall. Its sibling Audi e-Tron GT moves into 12th place between the Genesis G80 and Volvo 90-Series. The Jaguar XF is the slowest seller of models that are still in production for North America, but at least it’s up 21% on last year.
US large car sales 2022-H1
| Large car segment | 2022-H1 | 2021-H1 | Change | 2022 Share | 2021 Share | 2022-Q2 | Change | |
| 1 | Dodge Charger | 38.459 | 42.103 | -9% | 32,3% | 30,7% | 23.020 | 3% |
| 2 | Tesla Model S (est.) | 20.300 | 5.155 | 294% | 17,0% | 3,8% | 8.800 | 780% |
| 3 | BMW 5-series | 9.811 | 13.701 | -28% | 8,2% | 10,0% | 4.166 | -43% |
| 4 | Mercedes-Benz E-class | 9.808 | 15.305 | -36% | 8,2% | 11,2% | 5.077 | -29% |
| 5 | Toyota Avalon | 8.120 | 10.328 | -21% | 6,8% | 7,5% | 5.965 | 15% |
| 6 | Chrysler 300 | 7.582 | 11.062 | -31% | 6,4% | 8,1% | 4.837 | -15% |
| 7 | Cadillac CT5 | 7.514 | 6.825 | 10% | 6,3% | 5,0% | 4.171 | 70% |
| 8 | Porsche Taycan | 4.449 | 5.367 | -17% | 3,7% | 3,9% | 2.524 | -25% |
| 9 | Nissan Maxima | 3.753 | 9.965 | -62% | 3,2% | 7,3% | 884 | -83% |
| 10 | Audi A6 / S6 | 2.722 | 7.392 | -63% | 2,3% | 5,4% | 1.448 | -66% |
| 11 | Genesis G80 | 2.175 | 2.992 | -27% | 1,8% | 2,2% | 1.127 | -24% |
| 12 | Audi e-tron GT | 1.411 | 0 | New | 1,2% | 0,0% | 839 | New |
| 13 | Volvo 90 series | 1.145 | 944 | 21% | 1,0% | 0,7% | 586 | 67% |
| 14 | Audi A7 / S7 | 1.139 | 2.311 | -51% | 1,0% | 1,7% | 637 | -52% |
| 15 | Jaguar XF | 718 | 594 | 21% | 0,6% | 0,4% | 318 | -10% |
| 16 | Buick LaCrosse | 28 | 19 | 47% | 0,0% | 0,0% | 28 | 180% |
| 17 | Acura RLX | 3 | 198 | -98% | 0,0% | 0,1% | 1 | -98% |
| 18 | Lexus GS | 2 | 70 | -97% | 0,0% | 0,1% | 2 | -89% |
| 19 | Cadillac XTS | 1 | 170 | -99% | 0,0% | 0,1% | 0 | -100% |
| 20 | Infiniti Q70 | 1 | 0 | – | 0,0% | 0,0% | 1 | – |
| 21 | Lincoln Continental | 0 | 1.273 | -100% | 0,0% | 0,9% | 0 | -100% |
| 22 | Chevrolet Impala | 0 | 714 | -100% | 0,0% | 0,5% | 0 | -100% |
| 23 | Kia Cadenza | 0 | 225 | -100% | 0,0% | 0,2% | 0 | -100% |
| 24 | Cadillac CTS | 0 | 162 | -100% | 0,0% | 0,1% | 0 | -100% |
| 25 | BMW 6-series | 0 | 48 | -100% | 0,0% | 0,0% | 0 | -100% |
| Segment total | 119.141 | 136.923 | -13% | 64.431 | -6% |
Source: Manufacturers.