Ram finished the third quarter of 2026 ahead of Jeep, 134,072 vehicles to 128,542, a gap of 5,530 units inside a single Stellantis corporate family. Ram’s sales rose 29% from the third quarter of 2025. Jeep’s fell 20%.
The company as a whole was flat at 324,277 vehicles against 324,825 a year earlier, which means one brand’s gains almost exactly cancelled the other’s losses. The split between the two is the story of Stellantis’ American quarter, and it runs through a handful of nameplates.
Ram 1500 and the ProMaster balance
All three numbers in the comparison come from Stellantis’ own third-quarter sales release of October 1, 2026: Ram at 134,072, Jeep at 128,542, and Jeep’s 20% decline against the third quarter of 2025. They are brand totals, not truck totals. Per Mopar Insiders’ line-by-line reading, the Ram brand covers the Ram 1500, the Ram HD pickups, the ProMaster van and the ProMaster City.
The Ram 1500 did most of the lifting. It sold 76,650 units in the quarter, up 73%, with 202,147 sold so far in the year, up 41%, per the release as relayed by StockTitan. Ram HD pickups sold 41,107, down 6%. By subtraction, the two ProMaster vans account for the remaining 16,000-odd units of the brand total. Investing.com’s summary of the release puts total Ram pickup sales up 34% in the quarter, and notes that the 1500 took top rank in J.D. Power’s large light-duty pickup category for 2026.
Fleet sales of the 1500 grew faster than retail, according to Autoblog’s comparison of the two brands, though retail purchases still climbed 42%. Autoblog also called the result a milestone Stellantis had not expected to reach until 2030, a characterization that belongs to that outlet rather than to the company’s release.
The percentages imply the size of the swing. A 29% rise to 134,072 puts Ram’s third quarter of 2025 near 104,000 units, and a 20% fall to 128,542 puts Jeep’s near 160,000, so by this arithmetic Ram added roughly 30,000 vehicles while Jeep shed roughly 32,000. Those base figures are derived from the rounded percentages rather than published in the release, which is why the article leans on the reported totals and growth rates and treats the prior-year volumes as approximate. The effect is a lead change within the quarter: Jeep was the larger brand by a wide margin in the same three months of 2025, so the two brands traded places in the space of one quarter, even as Jeep keeps the lead on the nine-month tally.
Compass, Grand Cherokee and the Cherokee Hybrid
Jeep’s drop concentrated in two nameplates. The Grand Cherokee sold 38,027 units, down 30%, and the Compass sold 10,811, down 62%. Autoblog puts the losses at about 16,000 sales for the Grand Cherokee and 17,000 for the Compass against the third quarter of 2025. The Wrangler held up better, at 44,757 units, up 5%.
Part of the shortfall was filled by a new model. The Cherokee Hybrid, listed as the Cherokee HEV in the release data, sold 10,344 units, in line with the nearly 10,000 sales Autoblog credits it with adding, but not enough to offset the two large declines. The Drive separately reported that Gladiator pickup sales fell nearly 10% in the quarter, and that Dodge, the other Stellantis brand in the same showroom conversation, grew 2%.
Year-to-date standings through September
Jeep still holds the larger total over nine months. Through September it has sold 413,793 vehicles, down 8%, against 369,379 for Ram, up 20%, per the Autoblog tally. That leaves Jeep ahead by about 44,400, a lead that stood near 142,000 at the same point a year earlier. The Drive describes the gap as roughly 45,000 and says that if both brands hold their current trajectories, Ram has a decent chance of finishing the year as Stellantis’ top brand in total U.S. sales.
Product timing is part of that argument. The Drive credits the return of the Hemi V8, the TRX and the Rumble Bee SRT lineup for Ram’s momentum, and Mopar Insiders reports that the 2027 Ram 1500 Rumble Bee allocation sold out in 90 minutes. The Drive lists a Durango refresh, a Ramcharger SUV, a Dakota midsize truck and a Rampage compact truck as Ram products planned through 2030.
Stellantis’ own year-to-date total through three quarters is 958,463 vehicles, up 3%. Michael Orange, the company’s head of U.S. retail sales and network performance, called the quarter “disciplined” in the release and credited its dealer network, while the 5,530-unit Ram lead over Jeep sits against a 44,400-unit Jeep lead for the year to date.
This article was produced with the assistance of AI and reviewed by Morning Overview editors prior to publication.
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