Jeep's sales rose 14 percent to 90,545 units, marking its best sales month ever.
DETROIT - Fiat Chrysler Automobiles posted a 1 percent annual increase to 204,452 new vehicles sold in May, the automaker announced Wednesday.
The slight rise over 2015 - a record year for vehicle sales in the U.S. - was enough to give the company its best May since 2005. It also marked FCA's 74th-straight month of sales growth in the U.S.
As has been the case for this year and much of 2015, the Jeep and Ram brands led the way.
Jeep's sales rose 14 percent to 90,545 units, marking its best sales month ever.
Ram's sales were flat, but totaled 43,613 units.
Those results helped offset the struggling Chrysler brand, which posted a 19 percent decline in sales to 24,276 units.
The brand's sales were hit by a 62 percent plummet for the Chrysler 200, a smaller car that company CEO Sergio Marchionne has said will be phased out. Sales fo the 300 and the Town & Country were both up double-digits, and the all-new Pacifca added 2,495 units in the month.
Sales of Dodge brand vehicles were off 5 percent to 42,837 units, with slow sales of the Dart, Challenger and Journey offsetting double-digit growth for the Caravan.
"Notwithstanding a challenging calendar, we managed to muscle our way to our strongest May sales in over 10 years," Reid Bigland, FCA's senior vice president of sales for North America, said in a release. "Initial sales of our all-new Chrysler Pacifica minivan are brisk and we expect further sales growth from this vehicle over the next few months as dealer inventory continues to build."
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