---
title: "Ford F-Series Is America’s Best Selling Truck for 42nd Straight Year"
description: "Ford sold 909,330 F-Series trucks in 2018...as well as 126 GT supercars."
date: "2019-01-03"
modified: "2019-01-03"
authors:
  - name: "Chris Tsui"
    job_title: "Contributor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/chris-tsui"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/25771/ford-f-series-is-americas-best-selling-truck-for-42nd-straight-year"
categories:
  - "Ford News"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
  - "Trucks"
tags:
  - "Auto Sales"
  - "F-150"
  - "F-Series"
  - "Ford"
  - "pickup trucks"
---

# Ford F-Series Is America’s Best Selling Truck for 42nd Straight Year

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Ford announced its final sales figures for the year of 2018 on Thursday and—[surprise, surprise](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/20415/ford-sedans-are-dead-in-the-u-s>)—the trucks and SUVs came out on top. Most notably, the company's [F-Series line of pickup trucks](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/23394/ford-recalls-2-million-ford-f150s-due-to-risk-of-fire>) was apparently the best-selling pickup in America for the 42nd year in a row.

"December capped another strong year for Ford and the industry," said Ford Vice President Mark LaNeve. "Ford sold more than 900,000 F-Series trucks in 2018 to extend our leadership position to 42 consecutive years as America’s best-selling pickup."

Forty-two years. Any way you slice it, that's a long-ass time to be No. 1. Forty-two years ago, *Family Feud* was a brand new television show, Peyton Manning was still learning to walk, and the position of POTUS was occupied, quite appropriately perhaps, by a man named Gerald Ford.

What's more, Ford (the car company) sold 217,653 commercial vans in 2018 including the E-Series, Transit, and Transit Connect, putting it at the top of that segment for the 40th year in a row.

While Lincoln SUV sales, as Ford points out, went up overall, it was entirely on the back of [the new Navigator](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/16898/2018-lincoln-navigator-review-the-navi-shakes-its-old-guy-image>) as sales of the MKC, MKX/Nautilus, and MKT were all down from 2017.

As for car sales, Ford's lower-riding offerings unsurprisingly didn't do so hot, clocking an 18.4 percent year-over-year overall sales drop. Ford's biggest losers were the C-Max and Focus which recorded annual sales declines of 63.7 and 28.4 percent, respectively.

Fun-ish fact while we're on the subject of Ford sales: a total of 126 [GT supercars](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/23141/2019-ford-gt-heritage-edition-orange-and-blue-is-the-new-black>) were sold last year, just one of which was sold in the month of December. [You're welcome.](<https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GD6qtc2_AQA/maxresdefault.jpg>)

## Author
Chris Tsui is *The Drive*'s former Reviews Editor and current freelance automotive journalist. He's based in Toronto.

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