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I was tasked with doing some data research at work the other day, and found myself sifting through sales figures for the U.S. and Canada.

 

It was interesting to see that in the U.S. the Silverado (#2 selling vehicle) outsells the Sierra (#12 selling vehicle) 636,069 to 210,736...or about 3 to 1.

 

In Canada, the Silverado (#8) is outsold by the Sierra (#7) 36,480 to 37,834.

 

This got me wondering, is this an issue of aesthetic preference, or # of franchises, or something else?

 

-Jay

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Many Americans are homophobic, and GMC does stand for Gay Mans Chevrolet, so I'm not sure...

 

 

 

 

 

 

:flag: Just kidding, very interesting information though. Chevy does have a very strong name in America, and has for a very long time. The 60's helped a lot, Chevy had quite a few performance cars in the muscle car era, like the Nova, Chevelle, Camaro, Corvette, Impala ect. Plus the age old rivalry of Ford vs Chevy, GMC doesn't get as much attention IMO. :(

 

 

As for why it is so popular up North, I have no idea, maybe there are more GMC car lots in general in Canada. I rarely see GMC lots, and when I do they are full of Chevys, and Chevy lots don't have many GMC's on them.

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Beats me, but if I were to buy a new truck today, I'd buy the GMC solely based on appearance. The Silverado's way too friggin' ugly IMHO.

Nytemare Senior Enthusiast

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Yeah, I think its down to availability. for every Chevy lot there is usually a GMC lot. However, on the GMC lot, they have Pontiac, hummer and GMC. And they have to have a certain number of GMC's in order to be a GMC lot and not a Pontiac lot. The best selling GMC has to be the serria, so they probably sell a lot of these.

 

Chevy, on the other hand, they have a load of different vehicles they can have on their lots, and probably the better selling ones are small cars. They dont need to keep as many trucks on the lots as GMC dealers do, so if someone wants to buy a GM Truck, and the local chevy dealer doesn't have it, they just drive down the road to the GMC dealer and get the closest thing.

 

Thats the way I think it is anyway, I may be wrong.

 

 

Either way, I'm a chevy guy.

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I like em both, I have a 1963 C-10 Chevrolet Fleetside, 1999 GMC Sonoma (dump,Lowe's,mulch,firewood) my 2003 Sierra Z71, wife has a 1999 Lumina LZT, I would never own anything else, (except my Indians and Harley's, oh yeah and a Buell.)

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GMC Sierra is built in Canada. That's why we buy them. Better built, better looks.

We have Pontiac, Buick, GMC dealerships and Chevrolet, Cadillac dealerships. Used to be Chev, Olds, Cadillac.

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Well I have owned lots of Chevy pick-ups.....funny thing the last five I have bought were built at the Fort Wayne, Indiana plant.

 

Anyways I think your figure may be scewed at bit to........it always seems at least in Alberta that the large corperate multi truck orders are usually by GMC dealers. For example the biggest GMC truck dealer in southern Alberta is Shaw GMC in Calgary. They sell lots of fleet trucks to oil companies etc. For example the municipal govt. who I work for just bought 28 trucks from them.

 

But talk about fleet sales! My brother in law works in Fort McMurray were our large tarsands development is and knows the Ford dealer there and they just sold in one order, 1200 Ford pick-ups to Syncrude.

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