Texas is home to country roads, highways, grid-planned city streets, and plenty of space for off-roading. Lucky for Texas drivers, there's a new vehicle for every one of those surfaces. But which was the most popular in 2019?
Online vehicle search tool iSeeCars crunched the data on millions of sales to determine the most popular new car purchased last year statewide and by metro area, and the results show that Texans love their trucks, especially Fords.
The most new popular vehicle in all of Texas, according to iSeeCars, is the Ford F-150 truck, and that extends to the metro level, too. The F-150 clocks in as the top new vehicle to buy in Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio.
Only Austin deviates from the trend. Austin buyers most frequently choose the Chevrolet Silverado 1500, data shows. The Chevy is also the most popular vehicle in cities such as Minneapolis-St. Paul, Oklahoma City, and St. Louis.
The F-150 also reigns as the most popular used vehicle in Texas, iSeeCars' data says. Overall, it's the most popular new vehicle in 20 of the top 50 U.S. cities.
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A version of this story originally was published on our sister site AutomotiveMap.com.
Inflation has been one of the biggest hot-button issues in the country in 2025, but a new study says that Fort Worth has it better than most.
According to a new WalletHub report, "Changes in Inflation by City," Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington ranked as the metro with the smallest inflation problem in the U.S.
The report analyzed the impact of inflation across 23 major metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) using Consumer Price Index data from the latest month available and compared to data from two months prior. The analysis also factored in inflation data from last year to better track both short- and long-term inflation changes.
Fort Worth saw only a 0.10 percent increase in its local inflation rate when compared to two months prior, and the rate is only 0.60 percent higher than it was this time last year.
Fort Worth residents may be feeling the sting a lot less than they did in January 2024, when WalletHub said the city had the No. 1 highest inflation rate in the U.S. In April 2023, Dallas-Fort Worth had the 10th highest inflation rate nationwide.
The study found Boston-Cambridge-Newton, Massachusetts-New Hampshire is the MSA that is currently being rattled by the highest inflation rate in the nation. The northeastern metro saw a 1.10 percent uptick in inflation when compared to two months ago, and it's 3 percent higher than it was a year ago.
Inflation has continued to fluctuate throughout the year in different areas, but WalletHub said the national inflation rate has significantly lowered since it last hit a 40-year high during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"The year-over-year inflation rate sits at 2.4 percent as of May 2025, which is still above the target rate of 2 percent," the report said. "Various factors, such as the war in Ukraine, labor shortages and recent tariffs, drive this higher than average inflation. Despite the country not meeting its target yet, the Federal Reserve will keep interest rates at the level set in December 2024."
Elsewhere in Texas, Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land experienced the 13th highest inflation rate in the U.S., the report found. Inflation in the region increased 0.90 percent over the last two months, and it is currently 1.2 percent higher than it was one year ago.
The top 10 metros where inflation has risen the most are:
