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

Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and Audi owned more than half the Canadian premium auto brand market in May 2015. The top-selling luxury vehicle in Canada is the Mercedes-Benz C-Class, which outsold the BMW 3-Series by 163 units in May and 903 sales through the first five months of 2015.

Canada Vehicle Sales Rankings By Model – May 2015 YTD

Audi’s Q5 and A4 were the fourth and fifth-best-selling premium brand vehicles in Canada last month. Even the aging A4, set to be replaced in the coming months, was up 15% to 650 Canadian sales in May, even as Audi’s real entry-level car, the A3, posted its own 91% gain and – theoretically – stole A4 limelight.

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Among the $50,000+ vehicles that sold most often in Canada last month, seven of the top 15.

Other Germans, the two Audi cousins from Porsche, grabbed two of the top 11 positions.

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.

May 2016 • June 2015 • April 2015 • May 2014

Rank	Premium Brand Vehicle	May 2015	May 2014	% Change	2015 YTD	2014 YTD	% Change
#1	Mercedes-Benz C-Class	1014	491	107%	4538	2691	68.6%
#2	BMW 3-Series	851	954	-10.8%	3635	3337	8.9%
#3	Acura RDX	828	720	15.0%	2930	2926	0.1%
#4	Audi Q5	752	732	2.7%	3026	3081	-1.8%
#5	Audi A4	650	566	14.8%	2486	2537	-2.0%
#6	BMW 4-Series	636	306	109%	2075	973	113%
#7	Lexus RX	610	803	-24.0%	2606	3127	-16.7%
#8	Mercedes-Benz GLK-Class	564	555	1.6%	2141	2204	-2.9%
#9	Acura MDX	547	674	-18.8%	2125	2450	-13.3%
#10	Mercedes-Benz M-Class	544	509	6.9%	2360	2303	2.5%
#11	BMW X5	527	495	6.5%	2064	2773	-25.6%
#12	Cadillac SRX	524	515	1.7%	1962	1857	5.7%
#13	BMW X3	478	525	-9.0%	2115	1940	9.0%
#14	Acura TLX	452	—	—	2002	—	—
#15	Audi A3	432	226	91.2%	1660	399	316%

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	May 2015	May 2014	% Change	2015 YTD	2014 YTD	% Change
#1	Lexus RX	610	803	-24.0%	2606	3127	-16.7%
#2	Acura MDX	547	674	-18.8%	2125	2450	-13.3%
#3	Mercedes-Benz M-Class	544	509	6.9%	2360	2303	2.5%
#4	BMW X5	527	495	6.5%	2064	2773	-25.6%
#5	Chevrolet Corvette	450	146	208%	894	597	49.7%
#6	Mercedes-Benz E-Class & CLS-Class ^	360	379	-5.0%	1268	1508	-15.9%
#7	Porsche Cayenne	272	215	26.5%	867	890	-2.6%
#8	Land Rover Range Rover Sport	222	204	8.8%	1027	1171	-12.3%
#9	Cadillac Escalade	201	32	528%	902	154	486%
	Cadillac Escalade °	159	26	512%	716	113	534%
	Cadillac Escalade °	42	6	600%	186	36	417%
	Cadillac Escalade °	—	—	—	—	5	-100%
#10	Chevrolet Tahoe	199	168	18.5%	921	423	118%
#11	Porsche Macan	195	104	87.5%	711	104	584%
#12	Audi Q7	193	189	2.1%	673	842	-20.1%
#13	Mercedes-Benz GL-Class	185	211	-12.3%	929	1012	-8.2%
#14	BMW 5-Series	171	167	2.4%	677	746	-9.2%
#15	Mercedes-Benz S-Class	143	70	104%	438	480	-8.8%

Source: Automakers & Global Automakers Of Canada
* A4 sales include sales of the unreported Allroad.
° Escalade breakdown by variant
^ 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.