Learn English – Can vehicles sell themselves? Shouldn’t it be passive voice

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I read one sentence

About 170,000 of those vehicles sell each year in the U.S.

It is extracted from:

The large vehicle is part truck and part car. Strength and size combined with comfort. Some well-known sports utility vehicles are the Jeep Cherokee, the Cadillac Escalade and the Toyota Land Cruiser. About 170,000 of those vehicles sell each year in the U.S. If you owned one of those cars, it would cost almost $100 to fill the tank when gas was most expensive.

Can vehicles sell themselves? Shouldn't it be passive voice here? If this sentence is correct, then would every unanimated subject sell themselves?

Best Answer

It is possible to use the verb sell with the article being sold as the subject. Here is a definition from the Cambridge Dictionary entry:

to be bought in the way or quantities that are mentioned; to be sold at the price mentioned

Here are some examples:

the album has been selling well over the past three months
their previous album only sold 60,000 copies
this product would sell better if the packaging were improved

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