Top 15 Best-Selling Luxury Vehicles In America - June 2016

The Lexus RX's 11% year-over-year increase powered Toyota's most popular upmarket vehicle to a huge 1178-unit margin of victory over the second-best-selling premium brand vehicle in America in June 2016.

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U.S. Vehicle Sales Rankings By Model - June 2016 YTD

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The Mercedes-Benz C-Class, a scant 48 sales ahead of the third-ranked BMW 3-Series, continued as America's top-selling premium brand passenger car in June. But the majority of popular luxury vehicles in the United States aren't cars at all – they're SUVs or crossovers; CUVs or utility vehicles or whatever you choose to call them.

11 of the 15 top-selling premium brand vehicles in America in June 2016 were SUVs/crossovers, including pairings from Lexus, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Acura. 

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Among vehicles with price tags above $50,000, nine of the top 15 were utility vehicles. A number of the utility vehicle gains were significant. 

The Mercedes-Benz GLE, GLS, and GLC; Infiniti QX60 and QX80; BMW X3, and Audi Q7 all increased their June volume by more than 25% in a new vehicle market which grew just 2%.

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.

July 2016 • May 2016 • June 2015

Rank	Premium Brand Vehicle	June 2016	June 2015	% Change	2016 YTD	2015 YTD	% Change
#1	Lexus RX	8045	7233	11.2%	49,412	44,279	11.6%
#2	Mercedes-Benz C-Class	6867	8316	-17.4%	37,305	43,337	-13.9%
#3	BMW 3-Series	6819	6891	-1.0%	32,976	42,796	-22.9%
#4	Lexus ES	5060	4742	6.7%	27,893	29,041	-4.0%
#5	Mercedes-Benz GLE-Class & M-Class	4515	3541	27.5%	25,186	22,960	9.7%
#6	Audi Q5	4419	4270	3.5%	21,986	21,666	1.5%
#7	Infiniti QX60	4380	3003	45.9%	20,972	17,778	18.0%
#8	Mercedes-Benz E-Class & CLS-Class ^	4292	4055	5.8%	22,458	25,053	-10.4%
#9	Cadillac XT5	4185	---	---	7208	---	---
#10	Lexus NX	4069	3503	16.2%	23,290	20,049	16.2%
#11	BMW X5	4018	7508	-46.5%	22,204	29,151	-23.8%
#12	BMW X3	3900	2301	69.5%	19,828	13,283	49.3%
#13	Mercedes-Benz GLC-Class & GLK-Class	3771	2549	47.9%	23,391	13,835	69.1%
#14	Acura MDX	3718	4592	-19.0%	24,615	29,420	-16.3%
#15	Acura RDX	3593	5056	-28.9%	26,276	25,713	2.2%

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 $40K.

Rank	Vehicles With Base Prices Above $50K	June 2016	June 2015	% Change	2016 YTD	2015 YTD	% Change
#1	Mercedes-Benz GLE-Class & M-Class	4515	3541	27.5%	25,186	22,960	9.7%
#2	Mercedes-Benz E-Class & CLS-Class ^	4292	4055	5.8%	22,458	25,053	-10.4%
#3	BMW X5	4018	7508	-46.5%	22,204	29,151	-23.8%
#4	Cadillac Escalade	2960	2514	17.7%	17,017	16,309	4.3%
	Cadillac Escalade *	1779	1522	16.9%	10,464	9,910	5.6%
	Cadillac Escalade ESV *	1181	992	19.1%	6553	6401	2.4%
#5	BMW 5-Series	2847	2965	-4.0%	20,275	23,581	-14.0%
#6	Mercedes-Benz GLS-Class & GL-Class	2651	2086	27.1%	12,880	12,938	-0.4%
#7	Audi Q7	2613	1630	60.3%	14,741	8525	72.9%
#8	GMC Yukon XL	2594	2407	7.8%	14,198	13,438	5.7%
#9	Chevrolet Corvette	2483	2807	-11.5%	14,668	18,307	-19.9%
#10	Lexus GX460	2098	2079	0.9%	11,150	11,691	-4.6%
#11	Land Rover Range Rover Sport	1626	1516	7.3%	10,374	11,173	-7.2%
#12	Infiniti QX80	1545	996	55.1%	8064	7326	10.1%
#13	Mercedes-Benz S-Class	1487	1593	-6.7%	8493	10,580	-19.7%
#14	BMW 7-Series	1408	832	69.2%	5605	5223	7.3%
#15	Lexus GS	1351	1643	-17.8%	7452	11,142	-33.1%

Source: Automakers & ANDC
$50,000 USD (before delivery) is an arbitrary borderline, upgraded in 2016 from $45K last year by $5K, but if GCBC was to follow this system of designating only expensive vehicles as luxury vehicles, adding approximately $20,000 to the average new car transaction price seemed like a fitting place to begin. 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 the second list, we know that none of the registrations were of cars priced below that borderline.
^ Mercedes-Benz USA, not GCBC, has chosen to combine E-Class and CLS-Class sales figures.
* Escalade breakdown by variant

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