Top 15 Best-Selling Luxury Vehicles In Canada - December 2015

The Lexus RX was Canada's luxury leader in December 2015. After a 14% year-over-year decline through the first 11 months of 2015, RX volume jumped 25% to 711 units in December as the fourth-generation RX came fully on stream.

Canada's passenger car market struggled in December, with a 14% year-over-year drop equal to 7000 fewer sales. This loss was keenly felt among the top-selling luxury cars, as well. 

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Canada Vehicle Sales Rankings By Model - 2015 Year End

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The C-Class, 3-Series, ATS, A4, and TLX – the only cars on this list of December's top-selling premium brand cars in Canada – all posted significant sales declines.

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Among the 15 most popular $50K+ vehicles, only four cars made the cut. Though none of those cars posted fewer December sales in 2015 than in 2014, none cracked the top seven. 

Each of Canada's most popular $50K+ vehicles were outsold by the Lexus RX, Acura MDX, Mercedes-Benz ML/GLE, BMW X5, Land Rover Range Rover Sport, Mercedes-Benz GL, and Ford Expedition.

Historical monthly and yearly sales figures for any of these top-selling luxury vehicles can always be accessed through the dropdown menu at GCBC's Sales Stats page, and for those not viewing the mobile version of this site, near the top right of this page, as well.

January 2016 • November 2015 • December 2014

Rank	Premium Brand Vehicle	December 2015	December 2014	% Change	2015	2014	% Change
#1	Lexus RX	711	570	24.7%	7063	7913	-10.7%
#2	Audi Q5	633	604	4.8%	8203	7862	4.3%
#3	Mercedes-Benz C-Class	621	686	-9.5%	9992	7054	41.7%
#4	Mercedes-Benz GLK-Class	587	484	21.3%	5304	5599	-5.3%
#5	Acura MDX	552	658	-16.1%	5814	6272	-7.3%
#6	Acura RDX	467	551	-15.2%	7380	6557	12.6%
#7	BMW 3-Series	459	784	-41.5%	9590	10086	-4.9%
#8	Mercedes-Benz M-Class	457	375	21.9%	6008	5532	8.6%
#9	Lincoln MKX	437	194	125%	2900	2702	7.3%
#10	BMW X5	422	391	7.9%	5381	5470	-1.6%
#11	Cadillac ATS	392	385	1.8%	3493	3714	-6.0%
#12	Lexus NX	383	296	29.4%	6127	296	1970%
#13	Audi A4 *	357	484	-26.2%	5461	5850	-6.6%
#14	Acura TLX	337	488	-30.9%	5075	2121	139%
#15	Audi Q3	331	245	35.1%	3596	1566	130%

For the purposes of the above list, premium brands include Acura, Audi, BMW, Cadillac, Infiniti, Jaguar, Land Rover, Lexus, Lincoln, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, and Volvo. Brands like Aston Martin, Ferrari, Lamborghini, and Lotus don't report specific monthly sales data. Maserati only reports brand totals. Buick has been excluded with a bunch of other automakers that don't sell vehicles with base prices higher than $45K.

Rank	Vehicles With Base Prices Above $50K	December 2015	December 2014	% Change	2015	2014	% Change
#1	Lexus RX	711	570	24.7%	7063	7913	-10.7%
#2	Acura MDX	552	658	-16.1%	5814	6272	-7.3%
#3	Mercedes-Benz M-Class	457	375	21.9%	6008	5532	8.6%
#4	BMW X5	422	391	7.9%	5381	5470	-1.6%
#5	Land Rover Range Rover Sport	294	254	15.7%	2680	2580	3.9%
#6	Mercedes-Benz GL-Class	287	161	78.3%	2473	2339	5.7%
#7	Ford Expedition	261	323	-19.2%	2282	1659	37.6%
#8	Mercedes-Benz E-Class & CLS-Class	256	256	0.0%	3162	3789	-16.5%
#9	Chevrolet Tahoe	248	161	54.0%	2364	1779	32.9%
#10	BMW 5-Series	225	184	22.3%	1996	2337	-14.6%
#11	GMC Yukon XL	183	181	1.1%	1579	1760	-10.3%
#12	Porsche Cayenne	175	131	33.6%	2389	1904	25.5%
#13	Cadillac CTS	154	139	10.8%	921	1076	-14.4%
#14	Cadillac XTS	148	105	41.0%	839	743	12.9%
#15	Porsche Macan	146	152	-3.9%	2121	1223	73.4%

Source: Automakers & Global Automakers Of Canada 

* A4 sales include sales of the unreported Allroad. 

^ Mercedes-Benz Canada's figures combine the E-Class with the CLS. $50,000 CDN (before delivery) is an arbitrary borderline, but if GCBC was to follow this new system of designating only expensive vehicles as luxury vehicles, $50K seemed like a safe place to begin - it equals the average U.S. new car transaction price plus $15,000, plus another $5000 to account for Canadian increases. Plenty of less expensive vehicles with specific models feature prices above $50,000 - M, RS, and AMG models come to mind, specifically - but in the case of this list, we know that none of the registrations were of cars priced at $35,900, as would be the case with the BMW 320i, which costs less than a Hyundai Santa Fe 2.0T Limited.  

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