Top 15 Best-Selling Luxury Vehicles In Canada – October 2014

As is almost always the case, Canada’s best-selling premium brand vehicle in October 2014 was the BMW 3-Series. Combined sales of the 3-Series and its 4-Series offshoot were up 0.3%, or four units, to 1274 units in October.

• Canada Vehicle Sales Rankings By Model – October 2014 YTD

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But the bigger story from last month’s results related to Acura, Honda Canada’s upmarket division. The TLX sedan, a replacement for the TL and TSX, outsold all premium brand cars aside from the 3-Series and all premium brand utility vehicles but one, as well.

With 788 sales, the TLX was up 63% compared with the whole Acura passenger car division’s results from one year ago and up 168% compared with the TL and TSX’s 294-unit performance from October 2013.

As a result, Acura brand sales were up 42% in October, a gain of 647 units. The TLX was also Acura Canada’s best-selling model.

Longstanding European luxury automakers filled most of the spots on this list of Canada’s 15 best-selling premium brand vehicles, however. Ten of the top 15 were BMWs, Mercedes-Benzes, or Audis. All but one member of the top 15, the Mercedes-Benz M-Class, featured base prices below $50,000. Vehicles with base prices above $50,000, regardless of brand status, are profiled farther down the page.

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.

October 2015 • November 2014 • September 2014 • October 2013

Rank	Premium Brand Vehicle	October 2014	October 2013	% Change	2014 YTD	2013 YTD	% Change
#1	BMW 3-Series	946	1079	-12.3%	8408	10,934	-23.1%
#2	Lexus RX	885	765	15.7%	6670	6595	1.1%
#3	Acura TLX	788	—	—	1169	—	—
#4	Audi Q5	772	744	3.8%	6743	6236	8.1%
#5	Mercedes-Benz C-Class	680	731	-7.0%	5638	7736	-27.1%
#6	Acura RDX	569	556	2.3%	5433	5092	6.7%
#7	Acura MDX	562	489	14.9%	5058	5010	1.0%
#8	Audi A4	508	606	-16.2%	4809	5113	-5.9%
#9	BMW X3	476	364	30.8%	4432	5029	-11.9%
#10	Mercedes-Benz M-Class	460	538	-14.5%	4666	3940	18.4%
#11	Mercedes-Benz GLK-Class	434	534	-18.7%	4487	5150	-12.9%
#12	Mercedes-Benz CLA-Class	421	175	141%	3151	283	1013%
#13	Lexus IS	360	352	2.3%	3454	2022	70.8%
#14	Audi Q3	345	—	—	955	—	—
#15	Audi A3	340	2	16,900%	1944	354	449%

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 $50K.

Rank	Vehicles With Base Prices Above $50K	October 2014	October 2013	% Change	2014 YTD	2013 YTD	% Change
#1	Mercedes-Benz M-Class	460	538	-14.5%	4666	3940	18.4%
#2	Mercedes-Benz E-Class & CLS-Class ^	329	340	-3.2%	3238	2670	21.3%
#3	BMW X5	317	703	-54.9%	4666	3268	42.8%
#4	Mercedes-Benz GL-Class	228	200	14.0%	2040	2064	-1.2%
#5	GMC Yukon	221	55	302%	1661	1107	50.0%
#6	Volkswagen Touareg	216	173	24.9%	1890	1723	9.7%
#7	BMW 5-Series	215	351	-38.7%	1929	2118	-8.9%
#8	Audi Q7	206	179	15.1%	1663	1556	6.9%
#9	Land Rover Range Rover Sport	181	169	7.1%	2093	1380	51.7%
#10	Chevrolet Tahoe	149	99	50.5%	1507	1341	12.4%
#11	Porsche Macan	142	—	—	940	—	—
#12	GMC Yukon XL	123	169	-27.2%	1471	979	50.3%
#13	Mercedes-Benz S-Class & CL-Class ^	104	19	447%	862	338	155%
#14	Cadillac Escalade	87	60	45.0%	637	674	-5.5%
#14	Cadillac Escalade °	68	36	88.9%	481	368	30.7%
#14	Cadillac Escalade ESV °	19	11	72.7%	150	115	30.4%
#14	Cadillac Escalade EXT °	—	13	-100%	6	191	-96.9%
#15	Audi A6	86	90	-4.4%	979	874	12.0%

Source: Automakers & ANDC
* A4 sales include sales of the unreported Allroad.
^ Mercedes-Benz Canada’s figures combine the E-Class with the CLS and the S-Class with the CL.
° 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. The biggest problem with a $50,000 minimum price of entry? Vehicles like the $49,990 Acura MDX and $49,299 Ford Expedition.
The new Cadillac CTS sedan’s base price is above $50,000, but not the base price for other cars in the CTS lineup. Yet. Total CTS sales in October: 71.

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