Here's how Detroit is selling more luxury vehicles than Germany and Japan
 

<p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/sedans/" rel="tag">Sedan</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/suvs/" rel="tag">SUV</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/trucks/" rel="tag">Truck</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/bmw/" rel="tag">BMW</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/chevrolet/" rel="tag">Chevrolet</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/ford/" rel="tag">Ford</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/gmc/" rel="tag">GMC</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/mercedes-benz/" rel="tag">Mercedes-Benz</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/earnings-financials/" rel="tag">Earnings/Financials</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/luxury/" rel="tag">Luxury</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/ram/" rel="tag">Ram</a></p><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/50k-pickups-beat-german-luxury/"><img alt="A table from TrueCar shows how pickup trucks costing more than $50K are outselling the German luxury brands." data-credit="True**** data-mep="614641" src="http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/midas/9fa0ab74d2347054bf98c2aa9 1774225/201244202/truecar-pickup-luxury-50k.jpg" /></a><br />
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Now there's an attention-grabbing headline, eh? Although the answer to the riddle - pickup trucks and SUVs - might be somehow deflating, the numbers involved deserve a going over. According to TrueCar's figures (click on the table to enlarge), six of the year's ten best-selling vehicles in the US that sell for a transaction price above $50,000 are body-on-frame, and the <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/mercedes-benz/e-class/">Mercedes-Benz E-Class</a> is the only foreigner to crack the top five.<br />
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Every enthusiast knows that pickup trucks are 'Murica's most popular vehicle by a colossal margin, and there have been plenty of reports about the popularity of luxuriously appointed trucks and SUVs, but compare these figures from TrueCar: 70 percent of <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/chevrolet/tahoe/">Chevrolet Tahoe</a> sales have a transaction price above $50K, and The Bowtie is expected to make $3.9 billion in revenue on 66,945 predicted high-dollar sales; 95.1 percent of E-Class sales break $50K, so the German company will make $4.0 billion on 67,006 predicted sales in that pricing sphere. It's about the only time you'll see the Tahoe ranked right next to Mercedes' bread-and-butter sedan. <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/ram/1500/">Ram</a> is ahead of those two with $4.2B coming from $50K-plus sales. The <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/tag/ford+f-series/">Ford F-Series</a> does almost as much revenue as the next three combined, with an expected $10.8 billion coming from sales of trucks over $50K - more than a quarter of the model's total sales, when a base F-150 can be had for about $26,000.<br />
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Yes, the Germans make a lot more money on fewer sales, but considering the comparison, the bottom line isn't too troubled by such facts. Weighing like-for-like, the full-size <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/ford/">Ford</a> walks it in every category; elsewhere, the <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/chevrolet/silverado/">Chevrolet Silverado</a> outsells the Ram, but the Ram outsells the Chevy by 6.7 percent above $50K. And for all the flak <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/gmc/">GMC</a> takes over swapping out grilles, the <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/gmc/sierra/">Sierra</a> also outsells the Chevy in the well-appointed segment, 16.1 percent of sales versus 11 percent - the Professional Grade brand is a huge profit center for The General. You'll find more info in the TrueCar press release <a href="/2014/12/14/detroit-selling-more-luxury-vehicles-truecar/#continued">below</a>.<p><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2014/12/14/detroit-selling-more-luxury-vehicles-truecar/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>Here's how Detroit is selling more luxury vehicles than Germany and Japan</em></a></p><p style="padding:5px;backgr ound:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2014/12/14/detroit-selling-more-luxury-vehicles-truecar/">Here's how Detroit is selling more luxury vehicles than Germany and Japan</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.autoblog.com">Autoblo g</a> on Sun, 14 Dec 2014 16:57:00 EST. Please see our <a href="/rss-term-of-use/">terms for use of feeds</a>.</p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2014/12/14/detroit-selling-more-luxury-vehicles-truecar/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/21115933/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2014/12/14/detroit-selling-more-luxury-vehicles-truecar/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>

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