Changing Of The Guard? Accord Outsells Camry For Second Month In A Row

The Honda Accord has done it again. After outselling the Toyota Camry back in August, the Accord runs away with another win with 32,956 units sold in September. Toyota still managed to sell 28,507 Camrys and states that the sedan is going through a successful “sell-down” as the 2014 models phases out to make room for the new 2015 Camry, which went on sale last month.

Meanwhile, the Ford Fusion managed to knock the Nissan Altima off the podium with 21,693 units sold. The fourth-place Altima (21,675 sold) was well ahead of the Chevrolet Malibu, which went home to 15,186 customers. Coming in at sixth place was the Hyundai Sonata with 14,918 units. Hyundai admits it scaled back incentives last month compared to August.

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Lamborghini_vs_Ferrari_Racer - 10/3/2014 9:53:17 AM

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The current Accord is a better car than the current Camry no doubt but the brand new Camry is right around the corner and should flip sales figures again.

cidflekken - 10/3/2014 12:08:44 PM

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Let's not forget that the Accord's sales were pretty much all retail sales while the Camry still sells about 15% or so to fleet.

carsnyc - 10/3/2014 12:31:07 PM

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Mazda6 > Accord > Fusion > Altima > Sonata > Camry > Legacy > Optima > Jetta > Malibu

Sciros - 10/3/2014 1:47:40 PM

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Altima and Jetta are by far the worst of all of those. Their costs of ownership alone put them at rock bottom. Oh and they drive like arse which doesn't help.

Accord is far superior to Camry right now in basically every measure.

cidflekken - 10/3/2014 2:41:38 PM

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The Passat should be here, not the Jetta

carsnyc - 10/3/2014 4:06:57 PM

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Sorry, meant to say Passat, not Jetta

MDarringer - 10/3/2014 7:30:56 PM

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Just means that Honda is putting more cash out to dealers to sell at any cost.

610looper - 10/4/2014 12:19:16 AM

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http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/2015-toyota-camry-first-drive-review

"So only three years after the last full redesign, Toyota has substantially fluffed and buffed the Camry to renew the interest of faithful customers and to (hopefully) draw fresh recruits.

The 2015 edition we drove on the Big Island of Hawaii lives halfway between a normal midcycle facelift and a clean-sheet overhaul. Every exterior panel is new except the roof."

MDarringer - 10/4/2014 1:23:51 PM

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Manufacturers need to do a new car, reskin for year 4, reskin for year 7, and replace for year 10. The old wine in a new bottle idea is good for consumers because a car like the Camry does not NEED to be fully replaced because it is pretty darned competent for its segment as is. Thus freshening it more rapidly with new sheet metal is a brilliant move.

That same brilliance produced the Fusion which is quite literally a reskinned Mondeo and the Mondeo is just now getting the Fusion's reskin.