Top 15 Best-Selling Luxury Vehicles In Canada - February 2014

Surprised? Of course you aren't. The BMW 3-Series was Canada's top-selling luxury brand automobile in February 2013. 

• All Makes & Models Ranked By February 2014 & YTD Canadian Sales

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After the Mercedes-Benz C-Class claimed the top spot in January, BMW was not going to sit idly by. In fact, February C-Class volume plunged, not unpredictably in advance of a new model's arrival.

3-Series sales fell 5% in February 2014, but that year-over-year comparison displays the current 3-Series four-door family against the whole 3-Series lineup from last year, a lineup which included the cars which are no labelled with the 4-Series badge. 

Combine February 2014's 3 and 4-Series totals and 3/4-Series sales were actually up 13% last month.

BMW's X5 ranked second among premium brand vehicles in February thanks to a 210% YOY improvement. Utility vehicles sat in 11 of the top 15 spots for luxury vehicles, joined as they were by the 3-Series, A4, C-Class, and Lexus's IS. Among vehicles with base prices beyond $50K, nine of the 15 top sellers - including the top three - were SUVs. Surely the X5, pictured above, won't be as popular as the X5. Surely. Please.

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.

February 2015 • March 2014 • January 2014 • February 2013

Rank	Luxury Vehicle	February 2014	February 2013	% Change	2014 YTD	2013 YTD	% Change
#1	BMW 3-Series *	593	626	-5.3%	967	1302	-25.7%
#2	BMW X5	502	162	210%	943	355	166%
#3	Audi Q5	484	459	5.4%	922	894	3.1%
#4	Lexus RX	449	449	0.0%	886	863	2.7%
#5	Mercedes-Benz M-Class	437	325	34.5%	720	608	18.4%
#6	Audi A4 *	419	357	17.4%	720	689	4.5%
#7	Mercedes-Benz C-Class	372	534	-30.3%	928	927	0.1%
#8	BMW X1	365	145	152%	615	234	163%
#9	Acura RDX	349	382	-8.6%	671	752	-10.8%
#10	Mercedes-Benz GLK-Class	339	395	-14.2%	626	651	-3.8%
#11	BMW X3	317	542	-41.5%	538	823	-34.6%
#12	Acura MDX	306	165	85.5%	661	422	56.6%
#13	Infiniti QX60/JX	293	276	6.2%	589	436	35.1%
#14	Cadillac SRX	256	154	66.2%	472	329	43.5%
#15	Lexus IS	254	62	310%	431	114	278%

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. Bentley and Maserati only report brand totals. Buick has been excluded with a bunch of other automakers that don't sell vehicles with base prices higher than $50K.

Rank	Vehicles With Base Prices Above $50K	February 2014	February 2013	% Change	2014 YTD	2013 YTD	% Change
#1	BMW X5	502	162	210%	943	355	166%
#2	Mercedes-Benz M-Class	437	325	34.5%	720	608	18.4%
#3	Land Rover Range Rover Sport	217	140	55.0%	432	248	74.2%
#4	Mercedes-Benz E-Class & CLS-Class ^	181	183	-1.1%	379	300	26.3%
#5	Mercedes-Benz GL-Class	160	180	-11.1%	262	358	-26.8%
#6	Porsche Cayenne	158	116	36.2%	287	204	40.7%
#7	Volkswagen Touareg	124	120	3.3%	261	255	2.4%
#8	Audi Q7	118	115	2.6%	236	218	8.3%
#9	BMW 5-Series	111	140	-20.7%	298	331	-10.0%
#10	Chevrolet Corvette	92	11	736%	186	24	675%
#11	Land Rover Range Rover	86	62	38.7%	173	146	18.5%
#12	Toyota Sequoia	75	43	74.4%	142	103	37.9%
#13	Mercedes-Benz S-Class & CL-Class	67	25	168%	185	51	263%
#14	Jaguar XF	58	45	28.9%	93	55	69.1%
#15	Audi A7	54	41	31.7%	124	79	57.0%

Source: Automakers & ANDC
Red font indicates year-over-year declining sales
* A4 sales include sales of the unreported Allroad. BMW also sold 113 copies of the 3-Series two-door, now known as the 4-Series.
^ Mercedes-Benz Canada's figures combine the E-Class with the CLS and the S-Class with the CL.
$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. The biggest problem with a $50,000 minimum price of entry? Cars like the Cadillac XTS, which starts at $48,940, sporty cars like the $49,500 Audi TT, and SUVs like the $49,990 Acura MDX. Volkswagen recently increased the base Touareg's price to $50,975; GM jacked up the base Tahoe/Yukon price up to $51,580. The new Cadillac CTS sedan's base price is above $50,000, but not the base price for other cars in the CTS lineup. Yet.
Total Infiniti G/Q50/Q60 volume: up 72.1% to 265 in February, up 74% to 503 YTD.

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