- Stellantis’ third-quarter US sales were essentially unchanged, while year-to-date volume rose 3%.
- Ram surged 29% as Jeep fell 20%, while Alfa Romeo collapsed 65% and Dodge and Chrysler barely moved.
- Gas Chargers outsold electric ones nearly 15-to-1, and one lonely ProMaster City found a buyer.
Stellantis’ latest US sales report looks remarkably boring if you stop at the bottom line. The automaker sold 324,277 vehicles during the third quarter, down just 548 units from the same period last year and effectively flat. Through September, things actually look a little better, with sales up 3% to 958,463 vehicles.
Dig a little deeper, though, and boy oh boy is there a lot happening underneath those numbers. Ram is surging, Jeep is struggling, Chrysler is basically a magical company, buyers have made their Charger preferences pretty clear, and Alfa Romeo is having an absolutely miserable year. Better yet, someone apparently walked into a dealership and bought a “new” Ram ProMaster City years after it was discontinued.
Jeep: Wrangler Holds On While Wagoneer S Vanishes
Things aren’t particularly pretty at Jeep, where third-quarter sales fell 20% from 160,564 to 128,542 vehicles. Year-to-date sales are down a less dramatic 8%. The Wrangler remains remarkably resilient, with its 44,757 sales representing a 5% improvement, while year-to-date volume is up 2%. The Gladiator wasn’t so lucky, falling 9% for the quarter and 20% for the year, while Grand Cherokee sales dropped 30% during Q3.
Then there’s the Wagoneer S. Jeep sold just 146 examples during the entire quarter, down 96% from 4,163 a year ago. Through September, only 519 have found homes compared with 10,426 during the same period last year. As we pointed out in our 2026 Jeep Wagoneer S review, a Chrysler badge might have made more sense to buyers.
Jeep has already put the Wagoneer S on hiatus for 2026, with an updated version expected to return for 2027, and these numbers make it pretty easy to understand why. The new Cherokee Hybrid naturally produced the biggest percentage increase, jumping from just 131 sales last year to 10,344 this quarter as production ramped up. Meanwhile, Compass sales fell by 62%.
Ram: Towing The Team
If Jeep is pulling Stellantis’ numbers downward, Ram is doing its best to drag them right back up. Ram sales jumped 29% during Q3, from 103,717 to 134,072 vehicles. The Ram 1500 deserves most of the credit, with sales exploding 73% to 76,650 units. Through September, light-duty pickup sales are up 41%. Apparently, nobody told Ram buyers that they’re supposed to be worried about interest rates, eight-year loans, inflation, or the economy.
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In fact, Ram added 30,355 sales during the quarter while Jeep lost 32,022. Those two swings almost perfectly cancel each other out, which goes a long way toward explaining Stellantis’ seemingly uneventful overall result. Of course, the most fun Ram number is considerably smaller.
The company sold one ProMaster City during Q3. Not one thousand. One. It is also the only example reported sold this entire year. The old ProMaster City disappeared after 2022, while its all-new replacement isn’t scheduled to reach dealers until early 2027. That leaves us with one very good question. What exactly did someone buy?
Chrysler: The Pacifica Won’t Go Away
Chrysler sold 34,494 vehicles last quarter. That’s effectively the entire brand, but perhaps more surprising is that the aging minivan isn’t merely hanging around. Pacifica sales actually increased 6% during Q3 and 13% year-to-date, crossing 100,000 sales through September. Chrysler has spent years talking about its future while its heavily warmed-over minivan keeps quietly doing the work in the present. At this rate, perhaps they should just leave it alone. It’s clearly working just fine, and plenty of Stellantis products seem to follow the same trend.
Dodge: A Tale Of Two Chargers
Dodge’s overall result wasn’t particularly exciting, with Q3 sales rising 2% while year-to-date volume remains down 3%. What’s happening underneath that figure certainly is. Dodge sold 3,446 gas-powered Chargers during the quarter compared with just 233 electric Charger Daytonas.
That’s nearly 15 ICE Chargers for every EV. The year-over-year percentages are distorted by the respective rollout schedules, but the current sales split is difficult to miss. Perhaps more notably, neither version is Dodge’s biggest seller. Not even close. That distinction belongs to the Durango, which moved 22,755 units during the quarter, up 14%.
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That means the decidedly long-in-the-tooth SUV accounted for roughly 86% of all Dodge sales during Q3. Again, Stellantis seems content to let some vehicles get very small updates so long as they keep selling. Durango and Pacifica are proof of it. At least the Durango is still genuinely fun to drive.
Alfa Romeo: If You Can’t Say Something Nice…
The Italian brand sold just 569 vehicles across the United States during the entire third quarter, down 65% from 1,614 last year. Year-to-date sales have been cut by more than half, falling from 4,778 to 2,316.
There isn’t even one model cushioning the blow. Giulia sales fell 47%, Stelvio dropped 42%, and the considerably newer Tonale plunged 79% to just 199 units. For some perspective, Ram sold more 1500s during an average day of Q3 than Alfa Romeo sold cars during the entire quarter. That’s sad for a brand that not long ago made the wonderful Giulia Quadrifoglio.
Fiat: Honey, I Shrunk The Brand
Fiat makes Alfa’s numbers look positively enormous. The brand sold just 54 vehicles during Q3, down 83%, consisting of 52 examples of the 500e and two lingering 500Xs. Through September, Fiat has sold only 291 vehicles in the United States. The 500e isn’t exactly setting the world on fire either, with quarterly sales down 82% and year-to-date volume off 80%.
Taken as a whole, Stellantis’ third quarter was almost impressively uneventful. 324,277 sales this year versus 324,825 last year. But that 0% change hides one of the strangest quarters we’ve seen in a while. Ram is booming while Jeep contracts, ancient Durangos and Pacificas continue carrying their respective brands, Alfa and Fiat are barely registering, and buyers appear considerably more interested in gasoline Chargers than electric ones. Sometimes the most interesting number in a sales report is the one that didn’t move at all.
