Top 15 Best-Selling Luxury Vehicles In Canada – November 2013

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November 2013 marked just the third time this year, and the first time since February, that BMW Canada sold fewer than 1000 3-Series’ in a single month. As a result, BMW’s year-over-year 3-Series gain of just 0.5% seems poor in comparison to the market’s 6.5% jump.

Yet BMW also sold another 243 4-Series coupes in November. One year ago, the 3-Series’ 910-unit total included sales of the 4-Series. Well, it did in a manner of speaking. The 4-Series used to be called the 3-Series coupe and convertible. A more direct year-over-year tally shows that BMW 3-Series/4-Series sales, jointly, rose 27.3%. Now that sounds more like it.

BMW recently released images of the next-generation M3. The coupe version, naturally named the M4, is pictured above. Yowzah.

• All 257 Vehicles Ranked By November 2013/YTD Canadian Sales

Four of Canada’s 15 top-selling premium brand vehicles in November were BMWs. Mercedes-Benz joined the German effort with the third-ranked C-Class, ninth-ranked GLK, tenth-ranked M-Class, and the eleventh-ranked E-Class, sales of which (not by GCBC’s choice) include the CLS-Class. Acura’s two continuing utility vehicles slot in as the fifth and sixth-best-selling premium brand automobiles; the Lexus RX ranked fifth. This leaves two Audis and two Cadillacs.

Among vehicles priced above $50,000, there are two BMWs, three Mercedes-Benzes, three Audis, one Volkswagen, one Porsche, one Land Rover, and four full-size GM SUVs.

Historical monthly and yearly sales figures for any of these models 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. Canada’s favourite luxury vehicles in November 2013 are listed below.

November 2014 – December 2013 – October 2013 – November 2012

Rank	Luxury Vehicle	November 2013	November 2012	% Change	2013 YTD	2012 YTD	% Change
#1	BMW 3-Series	915	910	0.5%	11,849	10,294	15.1%
#2	BMW X5	912	365	150%	4180	3803	9.9%
#3	Mercedes-Benz C-Class	808	829	– 2.5%	8544	9606	– 11.1%
#4	Audi Q5	687	683	0.6%	6923	5588	23.9%
#5	Lexus RX	622	579	7.4%	7217	6590	9.5%
#6	Acura RDX	522	393	32.8%	5614	4328	29.7%
#7	Acura MDX	506	449	12.7%	5516	4736	16.5%
#8	Audi A4 *	431	444	– 2.9%	5544	5689	– 2.5%
#9	Mercedes-Benz GLK-Class	413	431	– 4.2%	5563	4717	17.9%
#10	Mercedes-Benz M-Class	407	455	– 10.5%	4347	5137	– 15.4%
#11	Mercedes-Benz E-Class & CLS-Class	368	230	60.0%	3038	3829	– 18.3%
#12	BMW X3	355	482	– 26.3%	5384	4685	14.9%
#13	Cadillac ATS	343	61	462%	2871	117	2354%
#14	BMW 5-Series	327	222	47.3%	2445	2564	– 4.6%
#15	Cadillac SRX	308	310	– 0.6%	3495	2834	23.3%

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. Bentley and Maserati only report 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 2013	November 2012	% Change	2013 YTD	2012 YTD	% Change
#1	BMW X5	912	365	150%	4180	3803	9.9%
#2	Mercedes-Benz M-Class	407	455	– 10.5%	4347	5137	– 15.4%
#3	Mercedes-Benz E-Class & CLS-Class	368	230	60.0%	3038	3829	– 18.3%
#4	BMW 5-Series	327	222	47.3%	2445	2564	– 4.6%
#5	Volkswagen Touareg	207	200	3.5%	1930	1826	5.7%
#6	Porsche Cayenne	201	155	29.7%	1888	1485	27.1%
#7	Land Rover Range Rover Sport	180	139	29.5%	1560	1518	2.8%
#8	Mercedes-Benz GL-Class	164	162	1.2%	2228	1650	35.0%
#9	Chevrolet Tahoe	151	77	96.1%	1492	1023	45.8%
#10	GMC Yukon	113	109	3.7%	1220	1023	19.3%
#11	Audi A6	106	85	24.7%	980	887	11.0%
#12	Audi Q7	103	121	– 14.9%	1659	1531	8.4%
#13	Chevrolet Suburban	87	140	– 37.9%	1106	951	16.3%
#14	GMC Yukon XL	86	166	– 48.2%	1065	1045	1.9%
#15	Audi A7	80	56	42.9%	673	861	– 21.8%

Source: Automakers & ANDC
Red font indicates year-over-year declining sales
* A4 sales include sales of the unreported Allroad
$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? Cars like the Cadillac XTS, which starts at $48,940, sporty cars like the $49,500 Audi TT, and SUVs like the $49,990 Acura MDX. Volkswagen recently increased the base Touareg’s price to $50,975; GM jacked up the base Tahoe/Yukon price up to $51,580.
Total Infiniti G/Q50/Q60 volume rose 89% to 272 in November but is down 1% to 2861 YTD.