Small And Midsize Luxury Car Sales In Canada - August 2016 YTD

Canadian car sales are falling. 

Canadian luxury car sales? Also falling. 

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Canada Vehicle Sales Rankings By Model - August 2016 YTD
Canada Car Sales Rankings By Model - August 2016 YTD

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A perennial favourite from BMW, the 3-Series, is down 27% this year, a loss of 1678 sales, after a 25% August 2016 tumble.

Despite rising sales of late, Mercedes-Benz C-Class sales are down by a tenth this year, but the C-Class is still Canada's top-selling premium brand car through two-thirds of 2016.

Acura, Bentley, BMW, Cadillac, Infiniti, Lexus, Lincoln, Mercedes-Benz, and Volvo car sales are in decline this year. 

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Some of the worst declines belong to some of the most affordable cars. Lexus CT sales, for example, are down 42%. Cadillac ATS sales are down 26%. Acura TLX sales are down 17%. Volvo V60 sales are down 49%.

These are not the S-Classes and Mulsannes and Quattroportes of the automotive universe. These are the cars that compete at a price point where Canadians could otherwise buy a nice compact luxury crossover or a family-friendly three-row utility vehicle. 

And so they do. Canadian sales of utility vehicles are up 13% this year.

You can click any model name in the tables below to find historical monthly and yearly Canadian 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 cars any which way you like. Mobile users can now thumb across the tables for full-width access. Suggestions on how GCBC should break down segments can be passed on through the Contact page.

Click Column Headers To Sort • September 2016 • July 2016 • August 2015

Small/Entry  Luxury Car	August 2016	August 2015	% Change	2016 YTD	2015 YTD	% Change
Acura ILX *	273	249	9.6%	1553	1633	-4.9%
Acura TLX	334	419	-20.3%	2788	3350	-16.8%
Audi A3	302	352	-14.2%	2836	2719	4.3%
Audi A4  ^	535	466	14.8%	3738	3828	-2.4%
Audi A5 *	129	116	11.2%	1106	1195	-7.4%
BMW 1-Series	---	---	---	---	3	-100%
BMW 2-Series *	152	120	26.7%	1496	1043	43.4%
BMW 3-Series	654	875	-25.3%	4537	6215	-27.0%
BMW 4-Series	336	356	-5.6%	3293	3503	-6.0%
Cadillac ATS	219	418	-47.6%	1553	2089	-25.7%
Infiniti Q50	285	329	-13.4%	1891	2131	-11.3%
Infiniti Q60 *	8	40	-80.0%	30	310	-90.3%
Jaguar XE	45	---	---	123	---	---
Lexus CT200h	27	57	-52.6%	343	586	-41.5%
Lexus IS	304	258	17.8%	2004	2318	-13.5%
Lexus RC	64	128	-50.0%	362	622	-41.8%
Mercedes-Benz B-Class *	182	212	-14.2%	1765	1468	20.2%
Mercedes-Benz C-Class	821	756	8.6%	6301	7025	-10.3%
Mercedes-Benz CLA-Class	346	342	1.2%	3022	2599	16.3%
Volvo S60	44	62	-29.0%	521	489	6.5%
Volvo V60	60	82	-26.8%	379	739	-48.7%
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Total	5120	5637	-9.2%	39,641	43,865	-9.6%

Midsize Luxury Car	August 2016	August 2015	% Change	2016 YTD	2015 YTD	% Change
Acura RLX	11	13	-15.4%	79	128	-38.3%
Acura TLX	334	419	-20.3%	2788	3350	-16.8%
Audi A6	109	81	34.6%	656	618	6.1%
Audi A7	82	73	12.3%	595	532	11.8%
BMW 5-Series	138	166	-16.9%	1329	1199	10.8%
Cadillac CT6	32	---	---	100	---	---
Cadillac CTS	141	38	271%	551	479	15.0%
Cadillac XTS ‡	35	74	-52.7%	281	443	-36.6%
Hyundai Equus ‡	---	5	-100%	5	25	-80.0%
Hyundai Genesis ‡*	106	73	45.2%	900	986	-8.7%
Infiniti Q70	11	14	-21.4%	123	140	-12.1%
Jaguar XF	53	32	65.6%	396	345	14.8%
Kia K900 ‡	2	2	0.0%	25	21	19.0%
Lexus ES	185	199	-7.0%	1410	1547	-8.9%
Lexus GS	30	42	-28.6%	280	279	0.4%
Lincoln MKS	2	5	-60.0%	191	133	43.6%
Lincoln MKZ	122	100	22.0%	672	757	-11.2%
Maserati Ghibli	9	34	-73.5%	221	209	5.7%
Mercedes-Benz  E-Class & CLS-Class *^	197	225	-12.4%	2110	2065	2.2%
Volvo S80	1	3	-66.7%	23	61	-62.3%
Volvo S90	38	---	---	38	---	---
Volvo XC70 *	26	23	13.0%	185	307	-39.7%
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Total	1664	1621	2.6%	12,958	13,624	-4.9%

Source: Automakers & Global Automakers Of Canada
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 why you'll see the XC70 listed with luxury SUVs and the Acura ILX with mainstream cars... 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.
^ Mercedes-Benz's Canadian sales figures combine the E-Class with the CLS-Class. Audi Canada's A4 sales figures include sales of the Allroad.
‡ The XTS, CT6 K900, and Equus aren't listed here because they're not massive - they are - but because their price points position them much more closely to, for example, the Mercedes-Benz E-Class than the S-Class. Genesis sales figures here do not include sales of the Genesis Coupe (as Hyundai's U.S. Genesis sales figures do), making the comparison with premium brand vehicles much more valid.

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