Top 30 Best-Selling Luxury Vehicles In Canada - 2011 Year End

The Volvo S60 was Canada's 31st-best-selling
premium vehicle in 2011

The Hyundai Genesis was sold 3625 times in Canada in 2011. There's no doubt that the $53,499 Genesis 5.0 R-Spec is a luxury car, so why don't the 3625 Genesis sales net the Hyundai a 13th-place finish on this list of Canada's 30 best-selling premium vehicles? After all, the Genesis was granted 14th spot in the U.S. edition.

Here's the Hyundai's problem, a problem we, as sales stats addicts, would rather Hyundai Canada didn't fix: we know that only 816 of those Genesis sales were Genesis sedans. Hyundai says so. There's no convincing GoodCarBadCar that the Genesis Coupe is a "premium vehicle", so the Genesis goes into the Canadian fight with just 816 sedan sales, whereas Hyundai USA doesn't split the two cars and entered the U.S. fight with 32,998 sales. What about the Equus? Only 116 were sold, not a bad achievement, but not nearly good enough to enter this hallowed ground.

As for the cars you do see here, BMW's 3-Series came out on top despite its 20% year-over-year decline. Just as the Mercedes-Benz C-Class is getting close, there's a very good all-new Good 12-winning 3-Series. The 3-Series and C-Class have other rivals in fourth, 13th, 17th, 21st, and 27th, even 14th, 23rd, and 25th if you want to be loose about things. The Lexus RX was third on this list, but among premium utilities, the RX's victory was 1426 units strong in an off year. America's best-selling premium vehicle was the Lincoln MKX. Sales of the Ford Edge-based crossover increased 3% in a market which grew 1.9%. Keep in mind, Detroit's second-best-selling premium vehicle in Canada wasn't a car, either. The Cadillac SRX beat the CTS by 149 sales.

The Acura ILX is the next Civic-based Acura, following up on
the 1.6EL, 1.7EL, and CSX. It'll be sold in America, too.

For those who struggle to consider the Mercedes-Benz B-Class and Honda Civic-based Acura CSX to be premium contenders, a continuation of the top 30 would reveal the Volvo S60, Lincoln MKZ, Range Rover Sport, Lexus CT200h, Audi A3, and BMW X6 to be the next-best-selling vehicles. You can find monthly and yearly sales figures for those models and every other nameplate on sale by accessing the dropdown menu at the top right of this page.

Rank	Best-Selling Luxury Vehicle	2011	2010	% Change
#1	BMW 3-Series	11,226	14,009	- 19.9%
#2	Mercedes-Benz C-Class	9447	8090	+ 16.8%
#3	Lexus RX	6760	7383	- 8.4%
#4	Audi A4	5480	5211	+ 5.2%
#5	Acura MDX	5334	5994	- 11.0%
#6	Mercedes-Benz GLK-Class	5294	5852	- 9.5%
#7	BMW X3	4671	2840	+ 64.5%
#8	Lincoln MKX	4595	4458	+ 3.1%
#9	Audi Q5	4502	3060	+ 47.1%
#10	BMW X5	4155	4012	+ 3.6%
#11	Mercedes-Benz E & CLS-Class	3898	3914	- 0.4%
#12	Mercedes-Benz M-Class	3846	3871	- 0.6%
#13	Infiniti G	3603	4408	- 18.3%
#14	Acura TL	3229	2895	+ 11.5%
#15	Cadillac SRX	3197	2918	+ 9.6%
#16	Acura RDX	3070	3163	- 2.9%
#17	Cadillac CTS	3048	2974	+ 2.5%
#18	BMW X1	2980	-----	-----
#19	BMW 5-Series	2963	2382	+ 24.4%
#20	Mercedes-Benz B-Class	2440	2994	- 18.5%
#21	Lexus IS	2235	2233	+ 0.1%
#22	Audi A5	1948	2309	- 15.6%
#23	Lexus ES	1892	2688	- 29.6%
#24	Volvo XC60	1865	1540	+ 21.1%
#25	Acura CSX	1795	2064	- 13.0%
#26	Mercedes-Benz G & GL-Class	1722	1437	+ 19.8%
#27	Acura TSX	1659	2297	- 27.8%
#28	Audi Q7	1565	1247	+ 25.5%
#29	BMW 1-Series	1556	1764	- 11.8%
#30	Infiniti EX	1521	1925	- 21.0%

Source: Manufacturers & ANDC 
Red font indicates year-over-year declining sales

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