Best Sellings Cars From 1980 - 2018 (Part 1)

So I found this interesting, looking at the best selling cars over the past 40 years. Due to the photo number restriction of 20, I'm breaking it into two threads.

1980 - Oldsmobile Cutlass (469,573 units sold)


1981 - Oldsmobile Cutlass (454,188 units sold)


1982 - Ford Escort (377,667 units sold)



1983 - Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme (331,179 units sold)


1984 - Chevrolet Cavalier (383,752 units sold)


1985 - Chevrolet Cavalier (422,927 units sold)


1986 - Chevrolet Celebrity (408,946 units sold)


1987 - Ford Escort (392,360 units sold)


1988 - Ford Escort (381,330 units sold)


1989 - Honda Accord (362,707 units sold)


1990 - Honda Accord (417,179 units sold)


1991 - Honda Accord (399,297 units sold)


1992 - Ford Taurus (409,751 units sold)


1993 - Ford Taurus (360,488 units sold)


1994 - Ford Taurus (397,037 units sold)


1995 - Ford Taurus (366,266 units sold)


1996 - Ford Taurus (401,049 units sold)


1997 - Toyota Camry (397,156 units sold)


1998 - Toyota Camry (429,575 units sold)


1999 - Toyota Camry (448,162 units sold)

Sad to see how prosperous the American car companies were and lose the battle to the Japanese. What a shame. Blows my mind at some point the Olds Cutlass was the best selling car in the United States at one point in time.

Missed the 86 Celebrity pic, doubled up the 85 pic.
I can't believe that was the best selling car that year. What a terrible POS, lol.

Growing up, my Dad always had a company car that served as our sole family vehicle.
Up until 86, they were all Station Wagons (this is before mini vans/utility vans). He was an electronics technician for the AP.
In 86 he had been promoted to Management, and didn't need a wagon anymore, and we got the Celebrity.
Light blue with 80s requisite matching blue interior...what a piece.
I learned to drive in that thing then promptly abused the crap out of it for a few years before it was my brothers turn. He's never admitted to how, but he managed to create a giant dent in the floor of the trans tunnel in the car one night.
That car is probably the reason I wont own anything FWD. It had torque steer like nobody's business. LOL.

Ford had a good amount of high selling cars

How many F series were sold in that time period?

That's not a Chevy Celebrity, this is a Celebrity. And if your dad was really dorky he got the Pontiac 6000 GTE

7998 said:

That's not a Chevy Celebrity, this is a Celebrity. And if your dad was really dorky he got the Pontiac 6000 GTE
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Ha, our Celebrity was certainly not that cool

Try this, although that grill doesn't ring a bell, but it was this color:

Crazy to think of the difference in quality between the accord and everything that came before it. The 90s accords stand up to anything today IMO but late 80s American could just as well have been made by the Soviets.

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Diablo Mike said:

Ha, our Celebrity was certainly not that cool

Try this, although that grill doesn't ring a bell, but it was this color:

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This was my first car in the year 2000.

2KBlackGT said:

This was my first car in the year 2000.

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Sadly enough....I wound up owning some sort of Oldsmobile version of the same car around 2000 myself....traded it in on a Z28 in 02
They gave me $1500 for it, they really wanted me to leave in that Catfish. lol.

I realize after posting this thread and reading some of the posts that having owned 25+ cars, I've never owned an Oldsmobile, Mercury or Chrysler product. And I've only owned 4 imports.