Historic Data of U.S. Dealerships

Car Appraisal Blog
/ Tony Rached
/ Updated on March 1, 2025

A Decade of U.S. Dealerships.

Last year, U.S. vehicle sales grew 5.7 percent to 17,470,659. In the same year the number of new-vehicle franchises grew less than 1 percent, resulting a 5.5 percent gain in industrywide sales per franchise.

Published on April 10, 2016

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