Chrysler Canada sales were up 12% in 2014 and General Motors sales up 6% in a year that set a record for Canadian car sales.
Car sales are lower, but surging demand for light trucks helped set a new record of 1.849 million vehicles sold last year.
Ford was the top seller in 2014, with 291,951 new vehicles delivered in Canada, up 2.9% from 283,588 in 2013.
Truck sales totaled 229,603, up from 215,247, while car sales slipped to 62,348 from 68,341. It was Ford’s best year in Canada since 1997.
Chrysler Canada says it set a new record for annual sales in 2014 of 290,004 cars and trucks, up from 260,015 in 2013.
Chrysler truck sales for the year totaled 255,119, up 20.1% from 212,501 in 2013, while car sales amounted to 34,885, down from 47,514.
In 2014, a total of 63,381 Windsor-built Chrysler, Dodge and Ram minivans were sold, the highest annual sales since 2007. Sales of the Dodge Grand Caravan increased by 11% to 51,759 units sold, up from 46,732 in 2013.
GM boosted its sales by 6% to 249,800 vehicles last year, despite a record number of recalls. That’s up from 234,944 in 2013.
Truck sales gained 6.2% and car sales rose by 6.5%. GM finished the year with a strong December, selling 19,247 vehicles, up 13% from December 2013.
Many automakers saw a sales surge in December, as they offered incentives to push them into record sales territory.
Honda Canada's combined 2014 annual sales for Honda and Acura totaled 172,426 units, a 5% increase on 2013.
Volkswagen said its annual sales in Canada were at a record 65,677, up 5% from 2013.
Nissan set a record with 115,445 total Canadian sales in 2014, an increase of 26.1% over 2013.
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