Top 15 Best-Selling Luxury Vehicles In Canada – June 2015

Not only was the Mercedes-Benz C-Class Canada’s top-selling premium brand automobile in June 2015, the BMW 3-Series – traditionally Canada’s favourite luxury vehicle – slid to third spot.

Canada Vehicle Sales Rankings By Model – June 2015 YTD

Then again, BMW also sold 619 copies of the 4-Series, which is essentially a 3-Series offshoot. Together, the 3-Series and 4-Series were up 1% to a C-Class-besting 1462 units in June.

Stuck in between the C and 3 was the Acura RDX, Canada’s top-selling premium utility vehicle in June 2015. The RDX now trails the Audi Q5 by just 15 units heading into the second-half of the year.

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SUVs and crossovers grabbed nine of the top 15 positions, including six of the top ten. That includes two Lexus nameplates, the soon-to-be-replaced RX and the recently introduced NX.

Among vehicles with base prices above $50,000, the four top sellers in Canada in June 2015 were all utility vehicles. 12 of the top 15 best-selling $50K+ vehicles in Canada in June were SUVs or crossovers.

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.

June 2016 • July 2015 • May 2015 • June 2014

Rank	Premium Brand Vehicle	June 2015	June 2014	% Change	2015 YTD	2014 YTD	% Change
#1	Mercedes-Benz C-Class	970	717	35.3%	5508	3408	61.6%
#2	Acura RDX	880	525	67.6%	3810	3451	10.4%
#3	BMW 3-Series	843	1056	-20.2%	4478	4393	1.9%
#4	Audi Q5	799	763	4.7%	3825	3844	-0.5%
#5	BMW 4-Series	619	395	56.7%	2694	1368	96.9%
#6	Mercedes-Benz GLK-Class	570	582	-2.1%	2711	2786	-2.7%
#7	Lexus RX	565	653	-13.5%	3171	3780	-16.1%
#8	Lexus NX	503	—	—	2553	—	—
#9	Audi A4 *	488	485	0.6%	2974	3022	-1.6%
#10	BMW X5	476	427	11.5%	2540	3200	-20.6%
#11	Mercedes-Benz M-Class	462	497	-7.0%	2822	2800	0.8%
#12	Audi A3	425	276	54.0%	2085	675	209%
#13	Cadillac SRX	408	354	15.3%	2370	2211	7.2%
#14	Acura MDX	404	482	-16.2%	2529	2932	-13.7%
#15	Acura TLX	352	—	—	2354	—	—

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. Maserati only reports brand totals. Buick has been excluded with a bunch of other automakers that don’t sell vehicles with base prices higher than $45K.

Rank	Vehicles With Base Prices Above $50K	June 2015	June 2014	% Change	2015 YTD	2014 YTD	% Change
#1	Lexus RX	565	653	-13.5%	3171	3780	-16.1%
#2	BMW X5	476	427	11.5%	2540	3200	-20.6%
#3	Mercedes-Benz M-Class	462	497	-7.0%	2822	2800	0.8%
#4	Acura MDX	404	482	-16.2%	2529	2932	-13.7%
#5	Mercedes-Benz E-Class & CLS-Class ^	352	324	8.6%	1620	1832	-11.6%
#6	Porsche Cayenne	281	192	46.4%	1148	1082	6.1%
#7	Chevrolet Corvette	251	159	57.9%	1145	756	51.5%
#8	Mercedes-Benz GL-Class	250	226	10.6%	1179	1238	-4.8%
#9	Porsche Macan	239	168	42.3%	950	272	249%
#10	Land Rover Range Rover Sport	237	197	20.3%	1264	1368	-7.6%
#11	Audi Q7	235	167	40.7%	908	1009	-10.0%
#12	BMW 5-Series	197	300	-34.3%	874	1046	-16.4%
#13	Cadillac Escalade	194	36	439%	1096	190	477%
	Cadillac Escalade °	132	21	529%	848	134	533%
	Cadillac Escalade ESV °	62	14	343%	248	50	396%
	Cadillac Escalade EXT °	—	1	-100%	—	6	-100%
#14	Chevrolet Tahoe	190	161	18.0%	1111	584	90.2%
#15	BMW X6	123	47	162%	598	279	114%

Source: Automakers & Global Automakers Of Canada
* A4 sales include sales of the unreported Allroad.
^ Mercedes-Benz Canada’s figures combine the E-Class with the CLS.
° Escalade breakdown by variant
$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.

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