Small And Midsize Luxury SUV Sales In America - November 2015 YTD

As their premium brand passenger car counterparts tumbled in November 2015, U.S. sales of 17 small/entry-level luxury crossovers jumped 34%. 

Indeed, that 34% year-over-year improvement occurred during an abbreviated month. Automakers had only 23 days to sell automobiles in November 2015, down from 25 a year ago. As a result, these 17 luxury SUVs and crossovers actually posted a collective 45% increase in their daily selling rate, an increase from 951 sales per day in November 2014 to 1386 sales per day in November 2015.

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U.S. Vehicle Sales Rankings By Model - November 2015 YTD
U.S. SUV/Crossover Sales Rankings By Model - November 2015 YTD

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An extraordinary number of those sales were produced by the BMW X3, sales of which more than doubled in November 2015. Audi and Mercedes-Benz posted 51% and 50% year-over-year gains with their least costly crossovers, the Q3 and GLA, respectively. Infiniti's newly-elongated QX50 posted a 366% jump to a 908 November sales, a low total still, but exceptionally higher than normal. Not since 2008, when the QX50 was still the EX35, have sales risen this high.

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Added to those figures are sales from vehicles which weren't fully available at this time a year ago: 4969 Discovery Sports, GLCs, and NXs. 

Among larger luxury utility vehicles, the Volvo XC90 continued to position itself as Volvo's best-selling model with 2236 sales. Brand-wide Volvo volume jumped 91% to 6,902 units.

You can click any model name in the tables below to find historical monthly and yearly U.S. auto sales data. You can also select a make and model at GCBC's Sales Stats page. These tables are now sortable, so you can rank luxury SUVs and crossovers any which way you like. Suggestions on how GCBC should break down segments can be passed on through the Contact page.

Click Column Headers To Sort • November 2016 • December 2015 • October 2015 • November 2014

Compact Luxury SUV	November 2015	November 2014	% Change	2015 YTD	2014 YTD	% Change
Audi Q3	1109	735	50.9%	11,728	2753	326%
BMW X1	1792	2416	-25.8%	12,651	20,217	-37.4%
Mercedes-Benz GLA-Class	2721	1812	50.2%	23,393	4810	386%
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Total	5622	4963	13.3%	47,772	27,780	72.0%

Small Luxury SUV	November 2015	November 2014	% Change	2015 YTD	2014 YTD	% Change
Acura RDX	3691	3436	7.4%	46,084	39,709	16.1%
Audi Q5	4520	4184	8.0%	45,949	37,869	21.3%
BMW X3	4987	2221	124%	28,798	31,029	-7.2%
BMW X4	572	489	17.0%	5545	1889	194%
Infiniti QX50	908	195	366%	4015	2503	60.4%
Land Rover Discovery Sport	1180	---	---	5937	---	---
Land Rover LR2	2	121	-98.3%	76	3545	-97.9%
Land Rover Range Rover Evoque	1056	1037	1.8%	13,213	11,014	20.0%
Lexus NX	3284	22	14,827%	38,630	22	175,491
Lincoln MKC	1805	2152	-16.1%	22,024	10,767	105%
Mercedes-Benz GLC-Class	505	---	---	507	---	---
Mercedes-Benz GLK-Class	711	2326	-69.4%	23,029	33,143	-30.5%
Porsche Macan	962	987	-2.5%	12,151	6377	90.5%
Volvo XC60	2077	1643	26.4%	22,623	17,197	31.6%
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Total	26,260	18,813	39.6%	268,571	195,064	37.7%

Midsize Luxury SUV	November 2015	November 2014	% Change	2015 YTD	2014 YTD	% Change
Acura MDX	4092	5210	-21.5%	51,954	58,842	-11.7%
Acura ZDX	---	3	-100%	2	76	-97.4%
Audi Q7	1279	1746	-26.7%	17,806	16,589	7.3%
BMW X5	3965	4557	-13.0%	48,747	40,933	19.1%
BMW X6	672	421	59.6%	6359	3438	85.0%
Cadillac SRX	5087	3331	52.7%	61,819	48,679	27.0%
Infiniti QX60	3736	2927	27.6%	36,783	27,825	32.2%
Infiniti QX70	610	414	47.3%	5040	4765	5.8%
Land Rover LR4	927	313	196%	7716	3943	95.7%
Land Rover Range Rover Sport	1776	1152	54.2%	19,213	15,861	21.1%
Lexus GX460	2011	2043	-1.6%	22,094	19,978	10.6%
Lexus RX	10,771	9592	12.3%	88,711	93,865	-5.5%
Lincoln MKT	425	381	11.5%	4290	4444	-3.5%
Lincoln MKX	1883	1602	17.5%	19,239	22,326	-13.8%
Mercedes-Benz GLE-Class	4883	---	---	14,353	---	---
Mercedes-Benz M-Class	367	5190	-92.9%	32,220	41,101	-21.6%
Porsche Cayenne	1523	1619	-5.9%	15,244	15,271	-0.2%
Volkswagen Touareg *	397	578	-31.3%	6551	6356	3.1%
Volvo XC70 *	262	405	-35.3%	4686	4623	1.4%
Volvo XC90	2236	87	2470%	9642	3884	148%
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Total	46,902	41,571	12.8%	472,469	432,799	9.2%

Source: Automakers & ANDC
* indicates a vehicle which is also shown in another GCBC segment breakdown
GCBC isn't here to break down segments, an impossible task for any group, but to display sales data for the sake of comparison. The more ways sales data can be displayed, the better. This explains you'll see the XC70 listed with luxury cars as well as with SUVs and crossovers and the Touareg with luxury SUVs and mainstream SUVs... because readers have wanted it both ways. You can always find the sales results for EVERY vehicle and form your own competitive sets by using the All Vehicle Rankings posts.

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