Leading the U.S. auto industry

January 09, 2026Newsletter Archives

The numbers are in: In 2025, General Motors led the U.S. auto industry in sales, reporting a 6% increase for the full year. 

This sales success was driven by growth in all four GM brands. GMC set a new sales record for the second consecutive year. Cadillac sales were the best in a decade. Chevrolet’s lineup of SUVs had their best sales ever. And Buick was one of the industry’s fastest-growing mainstream brands. GM earned the top spot in U.S. sales of full-size pickup trucks and full-size SUVs, and was the industry’s #2 EV seller in 2025. Talk about a great way to wrap up the year. 

And we couldn’t be more excited about what’s in store for 2026. This week, the Cadillac Formula 1® Team announced star Chinese racer Zhou Guanyu as Reserve Driver. Zhou joins a talented lineup of drivers that includes race drivers Valtteri Bottas and Checo Perez, plus Test Driver Colton Herta.

Elsewhere on GM News, we demystified the inner workings of an EV drive unit – the motor that powers your electric vehicle, plus the electronic circuitry and mechanical systems that make it all possible. We looked back at the 2003 Cadillac CTS – and how its development at the famed Nürburgring racetrack in Germany paved the way for today’s V-Series high-performance Cadillac models. And we spoke with Kevin Cochran, a diagnostic architect working on GM’s next-generation software platform. 

The year has just begun, but we’re hitting the ground running.

-- Bob Sorokanich, senior editor, GM News