Mountain View Nissan’s Brandon Payne, left, talks with Jim and Brenda Griffin as they take delivery on a 2015 Nissan Rogue.Tony York works for Nissan and from the full line of vehicles the company makes, he decided to buy a new Titan pickup truck earlier this year.
“I wanted the space,” the Hixson man said about the truck that competes against the likes of Ford’s F-150, Chevrolet’s Silverado and Toyota’s Tundra.
Full-size pick-up salesNational sales through November by model and percent change over last year:• Ram Pickup – 395,567, up 22.7 percent• GMC Sierra – 188,397, up 13 percent• Chevrolet Silverado – 471,918, up 7.8 percent• Toyota Tundra – 107,974, up 6.1 percent• Ford F-Series – 679,496, down 1.4 percent• Nissan Titan – 11,658, down 19.1 percentSource: Kelley Blue BookFull-size suv salesNational sales through November by model and percent change over last year:• GMC Yukon – 36,840, up 49.1 percent• Ford Expedition – 40,393, up 18.7 percent• Chevrolet Tahoe – 86,467, up 15.5 percent• Ford Explorer – 191,530, up 9.1 percent• Chevrolet Traverse – 95,289, up 7.5 percent• Chevrolet Suburban – 48,248, up 6.2 percent• Dodge Durango – 58,279, up 5.3 percent• GMC Acadia – 76,649, down 6.4 percent• Toyota Sequoia – 10,545, down 15.2 percent• Nissan Armada – 11,232, down 13.1 percentSource: Kelley Blue Book
York isn’t alone in desiring the extra room. People in Hamilton County are preferring to buy new trucks and SUVs over cars at a record pace.
Nearly 56 percent of all new vehicles titled in the county this year through November were pickups or SUVs. That’s the highest share since the county clerk’s office started keeping such records 42 years ago.