January 2014 Canada SUV And Crossover Sales Rankings - Top 84 Best-Selling SUVs In Canada - Every SUV Ranked

Canada's automobile industry got off to a good start in 2014 after the first month of 2013 had actually been a slow beginning in a record year. 

Yet overall new vehicle sales grew by the narrowest of margins as pickup trucks, minivans, and (especially) passenger cars declined sharply. 

SUVs and crossovers, on the other hand, 84 nameplates in all, combined for a 16% year-over-year increase compared to the performance of 85 SUV/CUV nameplates in January 2013. 

• Cars Are Still Making Way For SUVs & Crossovers - Timothy Cain @ AutoFocus

The 11 most popular utility vehicle nameplates - Escape through Sorento - accounted for 47% of the category's January 2014 volume. Premium brands collectively recorded a 21% year-over-year utility vehicle sales improvement. 

Together, Acura, Audi, BMW, Cadillac, Infiniti, Land Rover, Lexus, Lincoln, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, and Volvo were responsible for generating 16% of the category's January volume. 

BMW led all premium brands with 951 sales from its four X models, a 58% gain. Mercedes-Benz was the only premium brand to sell fewer SUVs/CUVs in January 2014 than one year earlier, but that 39-unit loss didn't stop Mercedes-Benz Canada from reporting its best January ever.

• All 238 Vehicles Ranked By January 2014 Canadian Sales
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The leading premium SUV, the 20th-ranked X5, was closely followed by the Audi Q5 and Lexus RX in 21st and 22nd spots. The RX relied on its hybrid version for 12% of the nameplate's sales.

There were exciting improvements introduced in October's rankings of vehicle sales. Prior year figures now include the actual numbers from last year, not just the percentage increases/decreases from last year. As a result, we now include vehicles like the Hyundai Veracruz and Jeep Liberty, nameplates which collected sales in January 2013 but not during January 2014. At any time, click the Rank column to return to the original format. If you're on a mobile device, you may need to choose the full version of the site (at the bottom of the page) in order to use the sortable function.

Reminder: these are January 2014 rankings, but you can rank SUVs and crossovers by improvements or declines using the % columns. Or, most importantly, you can list automakers together by selecting the SUV/Crossover column header.

As always, you can find historical monthly and yearly sales figures for any of these vehicles by selecting a make and model at GCBC's Sales Stats page.

Click Column Headers To Sort • January 2015 • February 2014 • December 2013

Rank	SUV/Crossover	January 2014	January 2013	% Change
#1	Ford Escape	2,597	2,741	-5.3%
#2	Toyota RAV4	2,160	672	221%
#3	Dodge Journey	1,950	1,996	-2.3%
#4	Nissan Rogue	1,872	823	127%
#5	Honda CR-V	1,437	1,414	1.6%
#6	Jeep Cherokee	1,310	---	---
#7	Hyundai Santa Fe Sport ³	1,289	1,709	-24.6%
#8	Chevrolet Equinox	1,130	1,035	9.2%
#9	Mazda CX-5	960	782	22.8%
#10	Kia Sorento	864	753	14.7%
#11	Ford Edge	843	789	6.8%
#12	Hyundai Tucson	823	707	16.4%
#13	Jeep Wrangler	809	1,048	-22.8%
#14	Subaru Forester	808	335	141%
#15	Jeep Grand Cherokee	791	803	-1.5%
#16	Volkswagen Tiguan	647	289	124%
#17	GMC Terrain	634	800	-20.8%
#18	Nissan Pathfinder	622	399	55.9%
#19	Ford Explorer	597	623	-4.2%
#20	BMW X5	441	193	128%
#21	Audi Q5	438	435	0.7%
#22	Lexus RX	437	414	5.6%
#22.1	Lexus RX350 *	383	364	5.2%
#22.2	Lexus RX450h *	54	50	8.0%
#23	Mitsubishi Outlander	415	343	21.0%
#24	Kia Sportage	413	422	-2.1%
#25	Toyota Highlander	391	387	1.0%
#25.1	Toyota Highlander *	340	328	3.7%
#25.2	Toyota Highlander Hybrid *	51	59	-13.6%
#26	Acura MDX	355	257	38.1%
#27	Chevrolet Trax	345	260	32.7%
#28	Acura RDX	322	370	-13.0%
#29	Honda Pilot	307	272	12.9%
#30	Jeep Patriot	303	726	-58.3%
#31	Toyota 4Runner	298	190	56.1%
#32	Mitsubishi RVR	297	579	-48.7%
#33	Infiniti QX60/JX35	296	160	85.0%
#34	Jeep Compass	294	799	-63.2%
#35	Dodge Durango	288	138	109%
#36	Mercedes-Benz GLK-Class	287	256	12.1%
#37	Mercedes-Benz M-Class	283	283	0.0%
#38	GMC Acadia	265	277	-4.3%
#39	Lincoln MKX	262	174	50.6%
T40	BMW X1	250	89	181%
T40	Hyundai Santa Fe XL ³	250	---	---
#42	Buick Encore	232	1	23,100%
#43	BMW X3	221	281	-21.4%
#44	Cadillac SRX	216	175	23.4%
#45	Land Rover Range Rover Sport	215	108	99.1%
#46	Nissan Juke	196	179	9.5%
#47	Chevrolet Traverse	169	184	-8.2%
#48	Buick Enclave	167	195	-14.4%
#49	Nissan Murano	153	218	-29.8%
#50	Mini Countryman	150	97	54.6%
#51	Volkswagen Touareg	137	135	1.5%
#52	Porsche Cayenne	129	88	46.6%
#53	Audi Q7	118	103	14.6%
#54	Infiniti QX50/EX	113	124	-8.9%
#55	Mercedes-Benz GL-Class	102	178	-42.7%
#56	Land Rover Range Rover Evoque	90	90	0.0%
T57	Land Rover Range Rover	87	84	3.6%
T57	Mazda CX-9	87	180	-51.7%
#59	Volvo XC60	82	82	0.0%
#60	Ford Expedition	79	122	-35.2%
#61	Ford Flex	75	108	-30.6%
T62	GMC Yukon	67	66	1.5%
T62	Toyota Sequoia	67	60	11.7%
#64	Nissan Xterra	65	59	10.2%
#65	Chevrolet Tahoe	62	61	1.6%
#66	Lexus GX460	60	26	131%
#67	Toyota FJ Cruiser	51	47	8.5%
T68	Infiniti QX80/QX56	46	27	70.4%
T68	GMC Yukon XL	45	35	28.6%
#70	Land Rover LR4	43	23	87.0%
#71	BMW X6	39	40	-2.5%
#72	Lincoln MKT	36	21	71.4%
T73	Land Rover LR2	33	34	-2.9%
T73	Nissan Armada	33	30	10.0%
#75	Volvo XC90	32	27	18.5%
#76	Infiniti QX70/FX	31	49	-36.7%
T77	Lincoln Navigator	30	24	25.0%
T77	Chevrolet Suburban	30	51	-41.2%
#79	Cadillac Escalade ^	29	41	-29.3%
T79.2	Cadillac Escalade *	22	31	-29.0%
T79.3	Cadillac Escalade ESV *	7	10	-30.0%
#80	Lexus LX570	25	16	56.3%
#81	Mercedes-Benz G-Class	19	13	46.2%
#82	Subaru Tribeca	18	15	20.0%
#83	Toyota Land Cruiser º	14	2	600%
#84	Acura ZDX	1	3	-66.7%
#85	Suzuki Grand Vitara	---	94	-100%
#86	Hyundai Veracruz	---	84	-100%
#87	Jeep Liberty	---	6	-100%
---	Total	33,074	28,428	16.3%
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Source: Automakers & ANDC
Red font indicates year-over-year declining sales
* Italicized unranked lines are nothing more than available breakdowns, already included in the model's total, not in addition to the model's total.
³ Total Santa Fe sales: down 9.9% to 1539
º Land Cruiser is a commercial vehicle in Canada.
^ Escalade here does not include sales of the EXT, which is shown with pickup trucks.
Rather than listing the 500L with the Mini Paceman and Countryman in these SUV/crossover rankings, it's with cars in large part because it is not available with all-wheel-drive. The placement of numerous crossovers often prompts disagreement, but consider the vehicle type's name: crossover. By its very definition, it crosses over from one category into another. The very act of calling, for example, the Toyota Venza a car or a utility vehicle requires ignorance of the fact that the Venza (or Outback, Crosstour, Encore, Countryman, 500L) is a square peg that can't be squeezed through a round hole.
This post was updated at 1:10 PM on 04.14.2014 to add 9 sales to the 4Runner's tally, and thus the overall total, as well.

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