Best-Selling Family Cars for 2011, So Far

 What's the best-selling family car in America?

 With automakers reporting March sales and an unexpected first place for the mid-size Nissan Altima as the best-selling sedan in America for the first time, the mid-size Toyota Camry still takes the top spot in first-quarter 2011 sales in the U.S. Toyota snags three of the top 10 spots in Q1 sales, while Chevrolet and Honda each have two, and Ford and Nissan one each.

Some of the shuffling around for the month and quarter is likely due to consumer demand for more fuel-efficient vehicles, supply/assembly disruptions due to the Japanese earthquake, and heavy advertising by Nissan, among other factors.

March sales of the mid-size Toyota Prius hybrid were up 52 percent over March 2010. Sales of the all-new 2011 mid-size Hyundai Sonata and compact Elantra, built in Alabama, are up 55 percent over March 2010 and combined represent 68 percent of total Hyundai volume. The compact Chevrolet Cruze, number eight best-seller in the first quarter, is an all-new model and was edged out by the Chevy Impala large sedan for the 10th place in March sales by just 45 units.

The numbers, as reported by manufacturers, are as follows:

	Best-Selling Family Cars	Q1 2011		March 2011
1	Toyota Camry	76,821	1	Nissan Altima	32,289
2	Toyota Corolla	76,675	2	Honda Accord	31,533
3	Nissan Altima	69,551	3	Toyota Camry	31,464
4	Honda Accord	66,195	4	Honda Civic	31,213
5	Ford Fusion	65,023	5	Toyota Corolla	30,234
6	Honda Civic	64,968	6	Ford Fusion	27,566
7	Hyundai Sonata	51,878	7	Hyundai Sonata	22,894
8	Chevrolet Cruze	50,205	8	Hyundai Elantra	19,255
9	Chevrolet Impala	49.541	9	Toyota Prius	18,605
10	Toyota Prius	42,779	10	Chevrolet Impala	18,063

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