Small Car Sales In Canada – January 2018

Best Selling Compact Cars in Canada for January 2018

Here you will find the Compact Car sales leaders in Canada for January 2018. Each month we compile the Compact Car sales data and reports for North American markets and analyze it to create the best selling list below.

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Who says that small cars aren’t cool? The Canadian small cars market grew by 16% on last January, with the majority of the gains coming from the tall hatches category.

This growth comes on the back of a slide in sales this time last year, but for the nameplates below, it’s a welcome respite from conditions a year ago.

Tall hatches sees the addition of the Ford Eco Sport this month – a Fiesta-on-stilts-style compact crossover, this generation Eco Sport has been on sale globally since 2013 but is only now entering the North American market, contributing 115 figures to the overall total for the sub-segment.

Another recent addition to the tall hatch market in Canada, the Nissan Qashqai, is already top of the leaderboard and also helps add to the bottom line for 2018’s first month. The Subaru Crosstrek, second behind the Nissan, contributes 651 sales more this January than last.

Sales of warm hatches have almost halved in the past year, with the Scion tC disappearing entirely and the Hyundai Veloster not far behind it. With the ageing Fiat 500 having last month sold a tenth of its sales last January, warm hatches was a two-horse race between the Volkswagen Beetle and the Mini Cooper (though their sales volumes can hardly be called close either).

City cars and subcompact cars remained fairly flat year-on-year, with both posting minor drops to last January’s figures. The subcompact sub-segment was saved by the Honda Fit and Toyota Yaris, which filled the hole left by the drop in sales of the Hyundai Accent.

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Compact Car Sales Figures – This Month

This sales table of shows the top Compact Car sales performers in the Canada, including their year on year growth rates both for the most recent month and year to date figures. Note that this table is sortable and that it fees the chart below. You can easily change the chart by filtering and sorting the below table.

For reference CA = Canada Sales for the month, CA LY = Last Year’s Canada Sales for the month, CA vs LY = The Year on Year Growth Rate, YTD = Canada Sales Year to Date, YTD LY = Last Year’s Canada Year to Date Sales, YTD vs LY = The Year on Year Growth Rate.

Compact Car Sales

Subcompact Car Sales

City Car Sales

Tall Hatch Car Sales

Warm Hatch Car Sales