CHICAGO, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- General Motors Co. (GM) U.S. dealers sold 2,274,088 new vehicles in 2022, up 2.5 percent from the 2,218,228 sold in 2021, The Detroit News reported Wednesday.
To be specific, Chevy sales were up 6 percent year on year; Cadillac sales up 14 percent; and GMC sales up 7 percent. Nevertheless, Buick's sales declined 42 percent.
The U.S. automaker sold 1.1 million full-size pickups, midsize pickups and full-size SUVs in 2022.
In the fourth quarter of 2022, GM's U.S. dealers sold 623,261 new vehicles, up 41 percent from 440,745 sold in the fourth quarter of 2021.
Toyota Motor Corp. sold 2.1 million vehicles in the United States in 2022, down 10 percent from its sales in 2021. Thus GM reclaimed the title of top-selling U.S. automaker from the Japanese automaker after losing the title in 2021, the local media reported.
