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

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Porsche USA sold 12,978 Cayennes in 2011. That SUV sales total was up 56% from 2010. Volvo sold 12,932 XC60s, up 7.5% from 2010. Mercedes-Benz S-class sales were down 10% to 12,258 in the United States in 2011. Not a single one of these vehicles can be found on 2011's list of America's 30 best-selling premium vehicles. Some might argue that their absence relates to the fact that GoodCarBadCar includes the Hyundai Genesis (sales of which, by Hyundai's decision, include the Genesis Coupe) and the Chevrolet Corvette, two truly premium cars from two very mainstream brands.

Regardless, the Cayenne, XC60, and S-Class have all garnered a mention in this text, making you a thoroughly informed reader. It's not as if the Top 30 list needed any more Mercedes products: 17% of the table is filled by Benzes. Volvo managed to break in with the increasingly popular and truly handsome S60. And Porsche's 186-unit miss sends a message to Porsche from all the diehards who still don't want the Cayenne to exist. 

Leading the pack in 2011, as it did the previous year, is the BMW 3-Series. The new 3-Series sedan should mean the 2012 list will not not show any red font in the BMW's % Change column. The BMW 3-Series sedan recently won a place in GoodCarBadCar's The Good 12. 

America's favourite luxury utility was the Lexus RX, not surprisingly. Its closest rival was the Cadillac SRX, 26,994 sales back. The SRX was America's favourite American luxury vehicle, 559 sales ahead of its CTS sibling. The SRX was also twice as popular as the most popular Lincoln, the MKZ. The seventh-ranked CTS will have some in-showroom competition from the CTS-lite ATS in 2012. Its recent debut was hotly anticipated.

Last year's edition of this best-selling luxury post can be viewed here. Start checking out 2011's monthly versions with January's post here.

Rank	Best-Selling Luxury Vehicle	2011	2010	% Change
#1	BMW 3-Series	94,371	100,910	- 6.5%
#2	Lexus RX	82,595	95,790	- 13.8%
#3	Mercedes-Benz C-Class	69,314	58,785	+ 17.9%
#4	Mercedes-Benz E-Class	62,736	60,922	+ 3.0%
#5	Infiniti G	58,246	58,143	+ 0.2%
#6	Cadillac SRX	55,601	51,975	+ 7.0%
#7	Cadillac CTS	55,042	45,656	+ 20.6%
#8	BMW 5-Series	51,491	39,488	+ 30.4%
#9	Acura MDX	43,271	47,210	- 8.3%
#10	Lexus ES	40,873	48,652	- 16.0%
#11	BMW X5	40,547	35,776	+ 13.3%
#12	Mercedes-Benz M-Class	38,835	29,698	+ 20.7%
#13	Audi A4	35,234	34,672	+ 1.6%
#14	Hyundai Genesis	32,998	29,122	+ 13.3%
#15	Acura TL	31,237	34,049	- 8.3%
#16	Acura TSX	30,935	32,076	- 3.6%
#17	Lexus IS	29,669	34,129	- 13.1%
#18	BMW X3	27,793	6075	+ 358%
#19	Lincoln MKZ	27,529	22,535	+ 22.2%
#20	Cadillac Escalade	25,503	26,874	- 5.1%
#21	Mercedes-Benz GL-Class	25,139	19,943	+ 26.1%
#22	Audi Q5	24,908	23,518	+ 5.9%
#23	Mercedes-Benz GLK-Class	24,310	20,946	+ 16.1%
#24	Lincoln MKX	23,395	21,932	+ 6.7%
#25	Volvo S60	21,282	1437	+ 1381%
#25	Audi A5	15,385	16,379	- 6.1%
#26	Land Rover Range Rover Sport	15,333	12,347	+ 24.2%
#27	Acura RDX	15,196	14,975	+ 1.5%
#28	Lexus CT200h	14,381	-----	-----
#29	Infiniti QX56	13,248	11,918	+ 12.7%
#30	Chevrolet Corvette	13,164	12,624	+ 4.3%

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

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