How Long Does a Used Ford Fusion Take to Sell?

Real days-on-lot from 1,292 retail sales at independent dealerships, broken out by model year and measured against the midsize sedans it competes with.

Sales window: Jan 2024 – Sep 2026 Sample: 1,292 sales Updated monthly
Short answer

Half of all used Ford Fusions sell within 37 days, against an all-vehicle median of 38 days — that is 1 days faster than the typical vehicle on an independent lot. Among midsize sedans it ranks 5 of 8 for turn speed. A quarter move in under 16 days and a quarter take more than 85 — that spread is the part worth planning around.

37
days on lot
median
16–85
middle half
sells in
1,292
sales in
the sample
110,148
average
miles

By model year

Age and turn time are not the straight line most dealers assume. The 2011 moves fastest at 28 days, while the 2020 sits for 59.

Model year Median days Sales Avg miles
2020 Ford Fusion 59 112 84,309
2019 Ford Fusion 43 121 95,092
2018 Ford Fusion 49.5 128 94,576
2017 Ford Fusion 40 210 109,034
2016 Ford Fusion 33 163 110,133
2015 Ford Fusion 28.5 118 118,178
2014 Ford Fusion 32.5 128 121,515
2013 Ford Fusion 31 90 120,241
2012 Ford Fusion 38 101 120,188
2011 Ford Fusion 28 52 130,658
2010 Ford Fusion 41 40 120,700

Model years with at least 40 recorded sales. Days on lot is the calendar gap between inventory entry and sale date.

Against the midsize sedans it competes with

Ford Fusion 37 d
Kia Optima 41 d

Average days on lot, sales since January 2024. Shorter is better. Minimum 150 sales per model.

Methodology

Days on lot is the number of calendar days between a vehicle being added to a dealership's inventory and its recorded sale date. That clock starts at intake, so on units that need work it includes reconditioning time. We exclude vehicles with no entry date, sales recorded before the entry date, and anything over 730 days — those are data-entry artifacts, not slow-moving inventory.

We report the median, not the average. Turn time has a long right tail: a handful of units that sit for a year or more drag the mean well above what a normal car does. Across every vehicle we track, the mean is 66.7 days while the median is 38. The median answers the question a dealer is actually asking, and the quartiles show the spread around it.

These figures come from aggregated, de-identified activity across independent dealerships that use AutoRaptor. We report only totals across many dealerships, never an individual dealership's results. No customer records, buyer information or dealership names are included.

We publish a model only at 150 or more sales, and a model year only at 40 or more. We do not publish gross profit figures, because the price fields in our data are incomplete and any margin we reported would be wrong.

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