Ford reports best annual U.S. vehicle sales since 2019

DETROIT — Ford Motor on Tuesday said its U.S. vehicle sales last year increased 6% to achieve the company's best annual sales since 2019.

The Detroit automaker reported sales of 2.2 million vehicles in 2025, including a 2.7% uptick to more than 545,200 units during the fourth quarter. In 2019, the automaker sold 2.42 million vehicles in the U.S.

Ford finished the year as the third-largest automaker in the U.S. behind Toyota Motor and domestic sales leader General Motors.

Ford's U.S. vehicle sales for the year were largely in line with analyst expectations, such as those from Cox Automotive, which expects industrywide sales to have risen about 2% to 16.3 million units in 2025.

"We're really pleased with where we finished the year," Andrew Frick, president of Ford's non-fleet vehicle businesses, said during a media call. "As the year unfolded, we saw really good performance throughout. ... We outperformed the industry for 10 straight months."

Ford's fourth-quarter performance came as it continues to battle production troubles with its F-Series pickup trucks due to two separate fires at a New York plant of key aluminum supplier Novelis.

Frick said the automaker "seems to be on track" to offset lost production of tens of thousands of its lucrative pickup trucks this year, including adding another shift to a plant in Michigan.

F-Series sales, including the popular F-150, were up 8.3% in 2025, but off 3.1% during the fourth quarter.

Like many automakers, Ford's EV business notably declined 14.1% last year amid, including a roughly 52% plummet during the fourth quarter. A nearly 22% increase in sales of Ford's hybrid vehicles, which the company expects to grow, assisted in offsetting those losses.

Traditional vehicles with internal combustion engines continued to dominate Ford's sales, representing about 86% of the company's volume in 2025.