Top 20 Hottest-Selling New Cars for March 2016

America’s hottest-selling new car for March 2016 is the ever popular Toyota Camry, even with a 10 percent loss over same month last year, the Camry easily maintained its number one spot on the leader board.

The Camry has been America’s top selling vehicle for seven consecutive months in a row and has also been the number one choice in vehicles by Americans for the last fourteen years.

American’s bought 36,991 Camry’s last month, even with a -9.3 percent decrease from last year same month. Toyota was still able to beat out the second place Nissan Altima by just over 2,100 new car deals.

Toyota also increased its year-to-date (YTD) lead over all its competitors, including the Toyota Corolla by almost 9,000 sales. The Honda Civic has 87,303 sales which makes it the Camry’s closest YTD competitor.

The Nissan Altima showed a nice 8.9 percent increase over March 2015, moving it up from 3rd place to second place in March with 34,856 new car sales. Nissan is still showing a small loss of -1.8 percent for its YTD number. Nissan should be able to overcome it as long as Altima sales stay strong over the next couple months.

The biggest loser’s on the list were the Kia Optima with a loss of -24.3 percent, the Hyundai Elantra with -39.2 percent loss, and the Chevrolet Cruze with a huge -58.1 percent loss over same month last year.

Check out all the hottest-selling new cars for March 2016 on the list below.

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America’s Top 20 Hottest-Selling New Cars For March 2016

Rank	Hot-Selling New Car	Mar2016	Mar 2015	% Change	2016 YTD	2015 YTD	% Change
#1	Toyota Camry	36,991	40,800	-9.3%	96,244	100,505	-4.2%
2	Nissan Altima	34,856	31,993	8.9%	85,332	86,875	-1.8%
3	Honda Civic	32,855	26,985	21.8%	87,303	66,722	30.8%
4	Toyota Corolla	32,556	35,532	-8.4%	84,260	90,728	-7.1%
5	Honda Accord	30,523	26,018	17.3%	77,073	68,645	12.3%
6	Ford Fusion	29,675	29,044	2.2%	74,994	71,470	4.9%
7	Hyundai Sonata	28,778	18,340	56.9%	61,457	44,690	37.5%
8	Nissan Sentra	26,201	21,277	23.1%	62,944	51,026	23.4%
9	Chevrolet Malibu	22,058	16,552	33.3%	58,222	42,401	37.3%
10	Ford Focus	18,618	20,497	-9.2%	50,215	52,994	-5.2%
11	Hyundai Elantra	17,505	28,794	-39.2%	39,363	56,742	-30.6%
12	Nissan Versa	16,244	14,543	11.7%	36,499	36,998	-1.3%
13	Ford Mustang	12,563	12,663	-0.8%	30,136	29,811	1.1%
14	Kia Soul	12,043	12,731	-5.4%	33,076	30,838	7.3%
15	Kia Optima	11,725	15,485	-24.3%	26,768	36,463	-18.4%
16	Chevrolet Impala	11,465	8,942	28.2%	30,554	27,221	12.2%
17	Volkswagen Jetta	10,741	11,583	-9.6%	28,023	31,363	-10.6%
18	Kia Forte	10,406	7,537	38.1%	23,922	19,508	22.6%
19	Chevrolet Cruze	9,881	23,598	-58.1%	37,241	60,592	-38.5%
20	Dodge Charger	9,817	8,828	11.2%	27,746	26,218	5.8%