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

13 of the 15 most popular vehicles in Canada with base prices above $50,000 in November 2015 – including the top five and seven of the top eight – were SUVs.

Canada Vehicle Sales Rankings By Model – November 2015 YTD

From the newly replaced Lexus RX and one of the least costly premium brand three-row utility vehicles, Acura’s MDX, to a bevy of big brutes from Detroit, Canadians are proving that luxury now entails greater ride height, SUV styling cues, and in many cases, some kind of electronic system with a snow or mud mode.

The two top-selling premium brand vehicles, overall, continue to be passenger cars. The Mercedes-Benz C-Class, just 240 sales ahead of the BMW 3-Series heading into December, both lead the top-selling premium brand utility vehicle, Audi’s Q5, by more than 1500 units so far this year.

The BMW 3-Series led all luxury vehicles in Canada in November, however, thanks to a significant 31% year-over-year increase to 1167 units.

Together, the 3-Series and its 4-Series offshoot, the core section of BMW’s lineup accumulated 1562 November sales in Canada, a greater number of sales than a number of premium brands generated: Cadillac, Infiniti, Land Rover, Lincoln, Porsche, Volvo, Jaguar, Maserati, and Alfa Romeo.

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.

November 2016 • December 2015 • October 2015 • November 2014

Rank	Premium Brand Vehicle	November 2015	November 2014	% Change	2015 YTD	2014 YTD	% Change
#1	BMW 3-Series	1167	894	30.5%	9131	9302	-1.8%
#2	Audi Q5	788	515	53.0%	7570	7258	4.3%
#3	Mercedes-Benz C-Class	721	730	-1.2%	9371	6368	47.2%
#4	Lexus RX	671	673	-0.3%	6352	7343	-13.5%
#5	Acura RDX	613	573	7.0%	6913	6006	15.1%
#6	Acura MDX	565	556	1.6%	5262	5614	-6.3%
#7	Lexus NX	520	—	—	5744	—	—
#8	Mercedes-Benz M-Class	456	491	-7.1%	5551	5157	7.6%
#9	BMW X3	432	461	-6.3%	4207	4893	-14.0%
#10	BMW X5	412	413	-0.2%	4959	5079	-2.4%
#11	Mercedes-Benz GLA-Class	402	253	58.9%	3471	709	390%
#12	BMW 4-Series	395	307	28.7%	4631	3134	47.8%
#13	Audi Q3	379	366	3.6%	3265	1321	147%
#14	Cadillac SRX	350	288	21.5%	4630	3882	19.3%
#15	Infiniti QX60	343	317	8.2%	3551	3254	9.1%

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	November 2015	November 2014	% Change	2015 YTD	2014 YTD	% Change
#1	Lexus RX	671	673	-0.3%	6352	7343	-13.5%
#2	Acura MDX	565	556	1.6%	5262	5614	-6.3%
#3	Mercedes-Benz M-Class	456	491	-7.1%	5551	5157	7.6%
#4	BMW X5	412	413	-0.2%	4959	5079	-2.4%
#5	Mercedes-Benz GL-Class	297	138	115%	2186	2178	0.4%
#6	Mercedes-Benz E-Class & CLS-Class ^	292	295	-1.0%	2906	3533	-17.7%
#7	Land Rover Range Rover Sport	286	233	22.7%	2386	2326	2.6%
#8	Cadillac Escalade	203	79	157%	1941	716	71.1%
	Cadillac Escalade °	161	60	168%	1498	541	177%
	Cadillac Escalade ESV °	42	19	121%	443	169	162%
	Cadillac Escalade EXT°	—	—	—	—	6	-100%
#9	BMW 5-Series	182	224	-18.8%	1771	2153	-17.7%
#10	Porsche Cayenne	178	167	6.6%	2214	1773	24.9%
#11	Volvo XC90	161	15	973%	863	405	113%
#12	Chevrolet Tahoe	159	111	43.2%	2116	1618	30.8%
#13	GMC Yukon	157	181	-13.3%	1570	1842	-14.8%
#14	Ford Expedition	154	157	-1.9%	2021	1336	51.3%
#15	Chevrolet Suburban	145	99	46.5%	1219	849	43.6%

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.

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