December 2012 Top 30 Best-Selling Luxury Vehicles In Canada

Year-Over-Year, Canadian 7-Series Volume More Than Quadrupled In December

The Mercedes-Benz C-Class was Canada’s top-selling luxury vehicle in December 2012. The BMW 3-Series ranked second; Audi’s A4 was a ways back in seventh. 

Their Japanese rivals? You won’t find the Infiniti G on this list: sales fell 53.6% in December 2012, and dealers are surely anxiously awaiting the new Q50. The Lexus IS ranked 21st, the same spot it held a year ago. And Acura’s three-pronged front-wheel-drive attack on the Germans resulted in 886 sales in December, fewer than Mercedes and BMW managed with the C-Class and 3er. And the leading Acura sedan was the Civic-based ILX, hardly a “luxury car” in the minds of most consumers.

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And while the Lexus RX ended the year as Canada’s best-selling premium brand utility vehicle, it trailed two Germans in December, although only by a bit. Audi Q5 sales shot up 128% to 564; sales of the Mercedes-Benz GLK jumped 39% to 562. 62 of the 540 RXs sold by Lexus in December were hybrids.

Speaking of Lexus hybrids, 58 of the ES’s December total was hybrid-derived. Lexus also sold four GS hybrids and 92 copies of the CT200h. Unfortunately, most brands don’t release such model-specific data.

All 262 Vehicles Ranked By 2012 Canadian Sales
Sales figures for the vast majority of vehicles unseen in the table below can always be accessed at GCBC’s Sales Stats page. That’s where you’ll find out that Lincoln sold 444 MKX crossovers at this time last year while BMW sold but 35 7-Series sedans.