These Are The Most Popular Pre-Owned Cars In America

Jeremy Korzeniewski
by Jeremy Korzeniewski

The Toyota Camry is the most popular new passenger car in America.


It’s also the most popular used passenger car in America, according to iSeeCars.com. Interestingly, though, America’s most popular sedan comes in fifth place overall on the used market but sits all the way down at eighth on the list of the most popular new vehicles. And that’s not the only noteworthy movement between new and used.


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Here are last year’s top 10 most popular pre-owned passenger cars along with their overall spot in the top 100:

Toyota Camry (5)

Honda Civic (10)

Toyota Corolla (11)

Nissan Altima (14)

Honda Accord (18)

Nissan Sentra (25)

Hyundai Elantra (28)

Chevrolet Malibu (29)

Tesla Model 3 (30)

Kia Forte (36)

In recent years, the Nissan Sentra has handily outsold its bigger Altima sibling on the showroom floor, but that’s not the case on the used market. It’s interesting to see Nissan’s midsize sedan also outsold the Honda Accord, a sedan that is a lot more popular with Americans buying new.


Sedans from American manufacturers aren’t well represented on the used market. Granted, American trucks from Ford, Chevrolet and Ram come in the top three spots overall, and the Chevy Equinox takes the honor as the most popular SUV. But it’s not until the eighth spot on the used passenger car list that we get to the Chevy Malibu. The Tesla Model 3 is the only other domestic sedan in the top 10, and it’s the only electric car to crack the list as well.

If we were to keep counting, we’d eventually see the first minivan in the 44th spot. The Chrysler Pacifica is a bit more popular on the used market than the Honda Odyssey (70), and those are the only two vans that crack into the top 100 overall.


See Also: Where To Find The Best Used Cars


This list covers more than 7.7 million used vehicles sold in 2024. Vehicles sold from the last five model years (2019-2023) were included in the results.


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Jeremy Korzeniewski
Jeremy Korzeniewski

Growing up in a family obsessed with performance and as the son of an automotive engineer, Jeremy Korzeniewski has spent his entire life as a car enthusiast. Also an avid motorcyclist, Jeremy has spent the last two decades writing about the transportation industry and providing insights to many of the largest automotive publications in the world.

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