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

The Mercedes-Benz C-Class’s 17% increase to 888 sales was more than sufficient for the best-selling premium brand car in Canada to end July as Canada’s top-selling premium brand vehicle overall.

Canada Vehicle Sales Rankings By Model – July 2016 YTD

In fact, even if C-Class sales growth was suspended, the C-Class’s 761-unit total from July 2015 was more than enough to fend off a challenge from the Acura RDX.

The C-Class was one of only five passenger cars on the list of Canada’s 15 best-selling premium brand vehicles in July 2016.

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Two of the others are direct C-Class rivals from BMW and Audi. Two more, the Audi A3 and Mercedes-Benz CLA, operate one rung down the ladder.

Among vehicles with price tags above $50,000, July’s 10 favourites were all SUVs/crossovers.

Only one car, the Mercedes-Benz E-Class (and its CLS-Class offshoot) cracked the top 15.

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. Mobile users can now thumb across the table for full-width access.

August 2016 • June 2016 • July 2015

Rank	Premium Brand Vehicle	July 2016	July 2015	% Change	2016 YTD	2015 YTD	% Change
#1	Mercedes-Benz C-Class	888	761	16.7%	5,480	6,269	-12.6%
#2	Acura RDX	709	587	20.8%	4,220	4,397	-4.0%
#3	Lexus RX	620	660	-6.1%	4,429	3,831	15.6%
#4	BMW 3-Series	612	862	-29.0%	3,883	5,340	-27.3%
#5	Mercedes-Benz GLE-Class & M-Class	577	411	40.4%	4,608	3,234	42.5%
#6	Audi Q5	546	616	-11.4%	4,575	4,441	3.0%
#7	BMW X3	525	265	98.1%	3,375	2,671	26.4%
#8	Lexus NX	510	438	16.4%	3,335	2,991	11.5%
#9	Audi A4	467	388	20.4%	3,203	3,362	-4.7%
#10	BMW X1	454	205	121%	2,722	1,724	57.9%
#11	BMW X5	451	435	3.7%	3,803	2,975	27.8%
#12	Audi A3	410	282	45.4%	2,534	2,367	7.1%
#13	Audi Q7	408	176	132%	2,729	1,084	152%
#14	Acura MDX	391	491	-20.4%	2,837	3,020	-6.1%
#15	Mercedes-Benz CLA-Class	382	326	17.2%	2,676	2,257	18.6%

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	July 2016	July 2015	% Change	2016 YTD	2015 YTD	% Change
#1	Lexus RX	620	660	-6.1%	4,429	3,831	15.6%
#2	Mercedes-Benz GLE-Class & M-Class	577	411	40.4%	4,608	3,234	42.5%
#3	BMW X5	451	435	3.7%	3,803	2,975	27.8%
#4	Audi Q7	408	176	132%	2,729	1,084	152%
#5	Acura MDX	391	491	-20.4%	2,837	3,020	-6.1%
#6	Volvo XC90	269	117	130%	1,731	251	590%
#7	Porsche Cayenne	238	277	-14.1%	1,382	1,425	-3.0%
#8	Land Rover Range Rover Sport	222	187	18.7%	1,795	1,451	23.7%
#9	Ford Expedition	202	267	-24.3%	1,506	1,344	12.1%
#10	Cadillac Escalade & ESV	201	121	66.1%	1,454	1,217	19.5%
#11	Mercedes-Benz E-Class & CLS-Class	189	220	-14.1%	1,913	1,840	4.0%
#12	Mercedes-Benz GLS-Class & GL-Class	186	219	-15.1%	1,301	1,398	-6.9%
#13	Jaguar F-Pace	179	—	—	423	—	—
#14	GMC Yukon	176	104	69.2%	1,339	945	41.7%
#15	Porsche Macan	167	241	-30.7%	1,335	1,191	12.1%

Source: Automakers & Global Automakers Of Canada
* 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.
$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.