June's Fastest- and Slowest-Selling Cars
Summer is here yet car shoppers are still quick to snap up cars, trucks and SUVs with all-wheel drive. All but one of the 18 fastest-selling cars in June had standard or available all-wheel drive and all but three of those were SUVs or trucks.
Not surprisingly Subaru dominates the list with five models all with standard all-wheel drive. That’s up from four last month, but the brand is well represented historically on our fastest list.
Related: Top 10 Best-Selling Cars: June 2015
Last month’s top spot went to an all-new Honda SUV, the small HR-V, and this month’s top spot goes to an all-new Honda SUV, the larger Pilot, redesigned for 2016. It took just five days to sell the new three-row crossover versus an average of 62 days for all cars.
That number is up versus May’s 57 days but down from June 2014’s 64 days, meaning people are buying new cars at a more rapid rate.
What shoppers aren’t interested in, it seems, are the country’s most affordable vehicles. Basic transportation needs don’t translate into hot commodities as sub-$15,000 cars like the Toyota Yaris, Chevrolet Sonic and Kia Rio were all bottom dwellers on our slowest-selling list at 150, 153 and 157 days respectively.
And while it didn’t make the cut for slowest-seller status, the most affordable car in the country last year, Mitsubishi’s Mirage, is one of our picks for shoppers to take a look at if a deal is important to them. It took 117 days to sell one in June, meaning there might be a deal to be had on a car that stickers at $13,805 including destination.
June’s Fastest-Selling Cars
- 2016 Honda Pilot: 5 days
- 2016 Nissan Maxima: 6 days
- 2016 Ford Explorer: 9 days
- 2015 Subaru Outback: 11 days
- 2016 Acura RDX: 13 days
- 2016 Hyundai Santa Fe Sport: 13 days
- 2015 Ford Flex: 13 days
- 2016 BMW X3: 14 days
- 2015 Chevrolet Colorado crew cab: 14 days
- 2015 Porsche Macan: 14 days
- 2015 Toyota Highlander: 14 days
- 2016 Honda HR-V: 15 days
- 2015 Mercedes-Benz GL450: 15 days
- 2015 Subaru Legacy: 15 days
- 2015 Subaru XV Crosstrek: 15 days
- 2015 Subaru Impreza sedan: 16 days
- 2015 Toyota 4Runner: 16 days
- 2015 Subaru Impreza hatchback: 19 days
June’s Slowest-Selling Cars
- 2015 Kia Rio sedan: 157 days
- 2015 Chevrolet Sonic sedan: 153 days
- 2015 Cadillac ATS sedan: 153 days
- 2015 Toyota Yaris two-door: 150 days
- 2015 Kia Rio hatchback: 148 days
- 2015 Kia K900: 147 days
- 2015 Fiat 500: 142 days
- 2015 Chevrolet Sonic hatchback: 142 days
- 2015 Dodge Grand Caravan: 138 days
- 2015 Kia Forte Koup: 137 days
Cars.com Picks
- 2015 Hyundai Veloster: 127 days
- 2015 Nissan Versa Note: 122 days
- 2015 Buick LaCrosse: 120 days
- 2015 Kia Forte hatchback: 120 days
- 2015 Mitsubishi Mirage: 117 days
About the Lists
The Fastest- and Slowest-Selling Cars list reports the average number of days it takes to sell models from the day they arrive on the lot until the final paperwork is signed by a buyer. This is not a days-of-inventory list like you may find on other websites. With lots mostly clear of 2014 models, we look exclusively at 2015s and 2016s. For the fastest sellers, we only list vehicles that pass a certain threshold of sales in order to weed out limited editions, ultra-high-performance cars and others that might skew the numbers or otherwise inaccurately portray popularity. To highlight all slow sellers, slowest sellers have no such threshold.
Our Picks highlight cars that take a significant time before they’re sold and might be overlooked by shoppers. Dealers could be more motivated to sell these cars.
