Perhaps unsurprisingly, y’all like trucks.

While most automakers playing in the American market suffered losses in 2018 – with FCA being a very notable exception – the truck side of their ledgers showed plenty of green. Every single body-on-frame model with a pickup bed attached was either virtually flat or showed sales increases compared to last year.

The perennial winner, Ford F-Series, took its competition to school for the 42^nd year in a row, recording total sales of 909,330 units over the last twelve months. Expect the gravelly voice of Denis Leary to be broadcasting this fact in ads on your television set for the next little while. It also won’t be long before we can start reporting on Ranger trucks.

Ram’s fortunes took an upward swing in the second half of 2018, after the company figured out its launch glitches. A year-over-year increase of 7.2% is nothing to sneeze at, especially when one is talking volume of over half a million trucks. If the launch of the 2019 Ram went like it was supposed to, one can only imagine where their numbers would have landed. Expect a further jump in 2019.

Staying in the FCA wheelhouse, the Jeep brand absolutely blew the doors off the place, coming very close to cresting the vaunted 1 million unit mark. As it stands, a total of 973,227 off-road warriors found new homes in 2018, up an astonishing 17.5%. The Wrangler accounted for nearly a full one-quarter of that number. Add volume from the new Gladiator trucks into the mix for 2019 and there is an excellent chance Jeep brand sales will cross into seven figure territory next year. Note as well that more Jeeps were sold than F-Series pickups.

At General Motors, the duo of Silverado and Sierra combined for a total of 805,135 sales. This is an increase from last year, albeit not quite so much as F-Series. Silverado sales were essentially flat, while the Sierra’s upticked ever so slightly. As this was an “all-new” year for those two pickup, read into those numbers what you will. Performances of the Colorado and Canyon continue to show the strength of the mid-sized truck market.

Nowhere, however, was the demand for mid-sizers more strong than at Toyota. The Tacoma finished 2018 in a very positive fashion, beating last December’s number by 15%. On the year, nearly a quarter-million customers – up 26% – helped themselves to a Taco meal, remarkable when one considers the age of its platform. Big-bro Tundra also saw its fortunes rise even though the truck nearly old enough to get a license and drive itself.

Mid-size demand was up at Nissan as well, with nearly 80,000 Frontiers departing dealer showrooms in 2018. That’s a 7.1% increase, by the way. With numbers like those, there is little incentive for Nissan to go through the expense and trouble of modifying and importing the foreign-market truck to America. While Titan’s numbers show a percentage decrease, its volume drop was actually quite small in the grand scheme of things.

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