The Detroit automaker's total sales for the year were up 5 percent over 2014.
DETROIT, MI - Sales of trucks and crossovers pushed General Motors' total retail deliveries up 8 percent to 3.1 million vehicles in 2015. The Detroit automaker's total sales for the year were up 5 percent over 2014.
GM was the third of the so-called Detroit Three automakers to post sales gains Tuesday morning, as the industry chases a potential record-breaking year of new car and truck sales in the U.S.
The current record was set in 2000.
For GM, retail deliveries have grown every month in 2015 since March. That rise was led by the Chevrolet brand, which posted an increase in retail sales each month during the same period. Overall, Chevy had its best sales year since 2007.
GM's Chevrolet and GMC brands sold 1.2 million trucks last year, an increase of 14 percent. Pickup trucks comprised 939,198 units of that total.
For crossovers, GM said the Chevy Equinox has upped its sales for seven straight years, and the Chevy Traverse, Buick Encore, GMC Acadia and Terrain, and the Cadillac SRX all had a record year in 2015.
"The momentum that the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra have carried all year, hits like the Chevrolet Trax and Colorado, and innovative designs like the
GMC Canyon and Buick Encore, have had a tremendous positive impact on our sales results," Kurt McNeil, GM's U.S. vice president of sales operations, said in a release.
In the month of December, GM's sales were up 6 percent, and its total deliveries rose 8 percent on an annual basis to 290,230 vehicles.
David Muller is the automotive and business reporter for MLive Media Group in Detroit. Email him at dmuller@mlive.com, follow him on Twitter or find him on Facebook.