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Canada’s large car market continued to slide in October 2013, though not as harshly as it has earlier this year. Sales of big, mostly Detroit-badged machines were already low a year ago. October’s 1306 units represents a 4% decline.
As a result of massive declines at Buick and Chevrolet, where sales of the LaCrosse and Impala have both been chopped in half compared with the first ten months of 2012, large car volume is down 21% so far this year.
It doesn’t help that Canada’s current top seller, the Chrysler 300, is down 7%. Nor is the segment lifted by the disappearance of the Buick Lucerne or slowing sales of the Ford Taurus, Hyundai Genesis sedan, and Nissan Maxima.
Toyota Avalon volume was up 267% in October, but the Avalon was rising from the basement, and it’s hardly made any progress toward the ground floor. Only 88 Avalons were sold last month.
• All 148 Cars Ranked By October 2013/YTD Canadian Sales
Large Car
|
October 2013
|
October
2012 |
%
Change |
2013
YTD |
2012
YTD |
% Change
|
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
96
|
162 | – 40.7% | 1024 | 2133 | – 52.0% | |
—
|
4 | – 100% | 5 | 556 | – 99.1% | |
212
|
418 | – 49.3% | 3480 | 7003 | – 50.3% | |
230
|
224 | 2.7% | 4882 | 5242 | – 6.9% | |
159
|
136 | 16.9% | 4130 | 3599 | 14.8% | |
176
|
172 | 2.3% | 3824 | 4507 | – 15.2% | |
101
|
101 | 0.0% | 885 | 1058 | – 16.4% | |
24
|
— | — | 164 | — | — | |
220
|
115 | 91.3% | 1374 | 1899 | – 27.6% | |
88
|
24 | 267% | 1073 | 305 | 252% | |
—
|
—
|
— | — | — | — | — |
Total
|
1306
|
1356 | – 3.7% | 20,841 | 26,302 | – 20.8% |
Source: Automakers & ANDC
* Genesis refers only to the sedan, not the coupe.
GCBC isn’t here to break down segments, an impossible task for any group, but to display sales data for the sake of comparison. The more ways sales data can be displayed, the better, right? You can always find the sales results for EVERY vehicle and form your own competitive sets by using the All Vehicle Rankings posts.
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