Ford's F-Series has been America's best-selling vehicle for 35 years - here's how it's changed

On Wednesday, Ford announced that it sold 820,799 F-Series trucks in 2016.

That makes the truck the best-selling vehicle in America in 2016. Just like it did the year before. And the year before that. And 32 years before that.

In total, the F-Series has been America's best selling truck for 40 consecutive years and its best selling vehicle overall for the past 35 years.

To give some background: since introducing the F1 in 1948, Ford has produced 35 million F-Series trucks. In the 21st century, Ford sells a pickup for every single minute of the day. In 2015 that number was closer to a truck and a half per minute.

Lets have some more fun with those numbers:

Assuming the average weight of all F-series pickups to be about 4000 pounds, (they have varied quite a bit, so we stayed conservative) the total weight of all of those trucks would be something like 140 billion pounds.

Here's that number again: 140,000,000,000 pounds. That's the weight of 192 Empire State Buildings or 680 Nimitz Class aircraft carriers.

God bless America.

Let's take a look at the 68 year-long run of the best-selling car in American history: the Ford F-Series.

William Fierman contributed to this story.