Top 25 Best-Selling Cars In Canada – 2015 Year End

2015 was the 18th consecutive year in which the Honda Civic ended a calendar year as Canada’s best-selling car. After a two-month lull at the beginning of 2015, Honda Canada racked up ten consecutive months atop the monthly leaderboard and ended the month with a far bigger lead than in 2014.

One year ago, the Civic outsold the second-ranked Hyundai Elantra by 15,637 units. In 2015, the Civic outsold the second-ranked Elantra by 17,228 units. Both cars declined, but the Elantra’s 5% drop more closely matched the decline of the overall Canadian passenger car market, sales of which slid 6% in calendar year 2015.

This list offers up plenty of evidence of the decline. These were the 25 best-selling cars in Canada in 2015, yet the top seven all sold less often in 2015 than in 2014; 14 of the 20 top sellers were in decline; 17 of the top 25. Eight of the top 25 declined more sharply than the overall Canadian car market, a car market which list some 48,000 sales even as the overall auto industry soared to record highs; a car market which lost nearly four percentage points of market share.

Canada Vehicle Sales Rankings By Model – 2015 Year End
Canada Car Sales Rankings By Model – 2015 Year End

Canad’s top-selling subcompact in 2015 was the ninth-ranked Hyundai Accent, sales of which tumbled 16% over the course of the year. The Toyota Camry, ranked tenth, topped all midsize cars despite a freefall late in the year. Canada’s top-selling premium brand car was not the BMW 3-Series. Instead, the Mercedes-Benz C-Class, newly launched for 2015, climbed into the 20th position overall.

medianet_width=’468′; medianet_height= ’60’; medianet_crid=’481536334′; Historical monthly and yearly sales figures for any of these best-selling cars 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. GoodCarBadCar has already published the list of Canada’s best-selling trucks, will soon publish a list of Canada’s best-selling SUVs in 2015, and has also posted December-specific editions.

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Rank	Best-Selling Car	2015	2014	% Change
#1	Honda Civic	64,950	66,057	-1.7%
#2	Hyundai Elantra	47,722	50,420	-5.4%
#3	Toyota Corolla	47,198	48,881	-3.4%
#4	Mazda 3	34,811	40,974	-15.0%
#5	Chevrolet Cruze	31,958	34,421	-7.2%
#6	Volkswagen Jetta	27,719	31,042	-10.7%
#7	Ford Focus	21,101	22,392	-5.8%
#8	Volkswagen Golf	20,515	12,184	68.4%
#9	Hyundai Accent	19,371	23,173	-16.4%
#10	Toyota Camry	16,805	16,029	4.8%
#11	Ford Fusion	15,781	18,472	-14.6%
#12	Nissan Sentra	14,940	15,021	-0.5%
#13	Honda Accord	14,465	16,962	-14.7%
#14	Hyundai Sonata	13,497	13,645	-1.1%
#15	Kia Soul	13,335	9944	34.1%
#16	Nissan Micra	11,909	7815	52.4%
#17	Subaru Impreza	11,426	10,157	12.5%
#18	Kia Forte	11,378	11,867	-4.1%
#19	Chrysler 200	10,961	11,655	-6.0%
T20	Mercedes-Benz C-Class	9992	7054	41.7%
T20	Subaru Outback	9992	8688	15.0%
#22	Kia Rio	9761	14,458	-32.5%
#23	BMW 3-Series	9590	10,086	-4.9%
#24	Chevrolet Malibu	9203	8246	11.6%
#25	Nissan Versa	9120	13,314	-31.5%