Top 15 Best-Selling Luxury Vehicles In Canada – April 2016

As Canadians purchased and leased more new vehicles in April 2016 than at any prior point in the auto industry’s history, the top-selling premium brand automobile in Canada likewise sold more often than at any point in the model’s seven-year history.

Canada Vehicle Sales Rankings By Model – April 2016 YTD

Audi Q5 sales rose 0.4%, or four units, to 908 Canadian units in April 2016, tops among all vehicles in the luxury spectrum. In the best-ever month for the Lexus brand, Lexus’ top-selling RX jumped 45% to 869 units in April 2016, second only to October 2014’s 885-unit RX performance.

The luxury sphere isn’t chock full of good news stories, however. Canada’s favourite premium brand passenger car nameplates – Mercedes-Benz C-Class, Audi A4, BMW 3-Series/4-Series – all posted declining sales in April 2016.

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In the case of the C-Class and 3-Series, the two top-selling luxury cars in Canada so far this year, April volume was down by nearly 500 units.

South of the border, their story wasn’t dissimilar. Combined sales of the C-Class and 3-Series plunged by more than 3200 units.

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.

April 2017 • May 2016 • March 2016 • April 2015

Rank	Premium Brand Vehicle	April 2016	April 2015	% Change	2016 YTD	2015 YTD	% Change
#1	Audi Q5	908	904	0.4%	2411	2274	6.0%
#2	Lexus RX	869	601	44.6%	2452	1996	16.8%
#3	Acura RDX	829	841	-1.4%	2569	3417	-24.8%
#4	Mercedes-Benz GLE-Class/M-Class	722	507	42.4%	2649	1816	45.9%
#5	Mercedes-Benz C-Class	691	968	-28.6%	2573	3524	-27.0%
#6	BMW X5	669	475	40.8%	2007	1537	30.6%
#7	Audi A4	660	733	-10.0%	1478	1836	-19.5%
#8	Lexus NX	619	549	12.8%	1788	1628	9.8%
#9	BMW 3-Series	567	784	-27.7%	1996	2784	-28.3%
#10	Acura TLX	555	512	8.4%	1347	1550	-13.1%
#11	BMW X3	551	686	-19.7%	1688	1637	3.1%
#12	BMW 4-Series	543	512	6.1%	1676	1437	16.6%
#13	Acura MDX	509	580	-12.2%	1620	1578	2.7%
#14	Cadillac SRX	479	744	-35.6%	1376	1438	-4.3%
#15	Audi Q3	447	325	37.5%	1279	1001	27.8%

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	April 2016	April 2015	% Change	2016 YTD	2015 YTD	% Change
#1	Lexus RX	869	601	44.6%	2452	1996	16.8%
#2	Mercedes-Benz GLE-Class/M-Class	722	507	42.4%	2649	1816	45.9%
#3	BMW X5	669	475	40.8%	2007	1537	30.6%
#4	Acura MDX	509	580	-12.2%	1620	1578	2.7%
#5	Audi Q7	381	205	85.9%	1439	480	200%
#6	Volvo XC90	325	000	—	921	—	—
#7	Mercedes-Benz E-Class & CLS-Class	300	345	-13.0%	1214	908	33.7%
#8	Porsche Macan	278	265	4.9%	688	516	33.3%
#9	Chevrolet Corvette	275	307	-10.4%	481	444	8.3%
#10	BMW 5-Series	268	126	113%	652	506	28.9%
#11	Ford Expedition	263	192	37.0%	662	594	11.4%
#12	Mercedes-Benz GL-Class & GLS-Class	254	279	-9.0%	859	815	5.4%
#13	Chevrolet Tahoe	223	180	23.9%	836	722	15.8%
#14	Porsche Cayenne	219	237	-7.6%	639	595	7.4%
#15	Cadillac Escalade	211	248	-14.9%	745	701	6.3%
	Cadillac Escalade °	151	196	-23.0%	550	557	-1.3%
	Cadillac Escalade ESV °	60	52	15.4%	195	144	35.4%

Source: Automakers & Global Automakers Of Canada
^ Mercedes-Benz Canada’s figures combine the E-Class with the CLS and the GLE-Class with the M-Class and the GLS-Class with the GL and GLC with the GLK.
° 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 approximate 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 below $50,000.