Pickup truck production is steadily increasing in the USA
- The United States remains the leading producer of pickup trucks ahead of Thailand, but unlike Thailand, pickup trucks assembled in the United States are mainly sold in the United States and Canada. In 2024, the two countries assembled 2.67 million pickup trucks compared to 2.45 million in 2023 and 2.56 million in 2022, while Thailand produced only 750,000 in 2024, a sharp drop compared to 2023 and 2022. While pickup production in Thailand has been steadily declining since 2012-2013, it is the opposite in the United States as the production has been steadily increasing since 2009. The production volume there increased from 1.33 million units to 2.67 million in 2024, which represents a doubling of the production volume in fifteen years.
- The United States produces two categories of pickups, the "full size" category, i.e. large ones, which represent 80% of all pickup production since 2019, and the "intermediate" category, i.e. medium-sized ones, also produced in Thailand, which represent 20% of pickup production in the USA since 2019.
- Thus, large pickups represented 2.13 million units produced in 2024, compared to 510,000 for medium-sized pickups. It should be noted that Thailand still produces more medium-sized pickups than the United States today.
- By model, the Ford F-Series largely dominates all its competitors (nearly a million units produced in 2024), in particular its direct competitors Ram Pick-up, Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra. Japanese carmakers remain far behind American carmakers in the pick-up category, with only 12% of total production carried out in the United States, while the opposite is true in Thailand (82%).