Best Selling Small and Midsize Luxury Cars in America for December 2017
Here you will find the Small and Midsize Luxury car sales leaders in the United States for December 2017. Each month we compile the Small and Midsize Luxury car model sales data and reports for North American markets and analyze it to create the best selling list below.
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If you want more data, check out our last few months of data Small and Midsize Luxury Cars Sales in America – November 2017 or Small and Midsize Luxury Cars Sales in America – December 2016. Also check out our other Segment reports or dive deeper into Small and Midsize Luxury Car Sales.Â
Our Take On The Small and Midsize Luxury Cars Sales Numbers
Compared with losses seen in other segments for traditional passenger cars, small and luxury passenger cars are holding their own to an extent.
By that I mean, there was no massive cliff drop year-to-year between 2016 and 2017.
For the nameplates below, in the small category the difference was ahem just 4.7%. For the midsize luxury cars listed below, that gap is even smaller, at 1.7%.
The top-selling small luxury nameplate actually grew on its performance in 2016. The Mercedes-Benz C-Class is up 0.4%. It’s not much, and it certainly isn’t the growth powerhouse behind Merc’s best-ever sales month in the States in December, despite being the leading volume vehicle to come out of the three-pointed star in 2017’s twelfth month.
The combined total for the BMW 3- and 4-Series came in just short of 100k units, with the 4-Series coupe even managing to eclipse the four-door sedan Audi A4’s total for 2017. The Infiniti Q50 holds on to third YTD, despite the 4-Series 10.8% growth and its own 7.4% drop on 2016’s year-end total.
In midsize luxury vehicles, less than 100 units separate the year-end totals of the top two nameplates. Just 86 more registrations would have seen the Mercedes-Benz E / CLS-Class namebadge top the midsize charts. The Lexus ES clung to its lead despite an 11.8% drop in sales against 2016.
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Top Small and Midsize Luxury Cars Sales Figures – This Month
This sales table of shows the top Small and Midsize Luxury car sales performers in the United States, 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 US = United States Sales for the month, US LY = Last Year’s United States Sales for the month, US vs LY = The Year on Year Growth Rate, YTD = United States Sales Year to Date, YTD LY = Last Year’s United States Year to Date Sales, YTD vs LY =Â The Year on Year Growth Rate.
Small Luxury Car Sales
| Model | US | US LY | US vs LY | YTD | YTD LY | YTD vs LY |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acura ILX | 835 | 1,079 | -22.60 | 11,757 | 14,597 | -19.50 |
| Mercedes-Benz C-Class | 6,500 | 7,345 | -11.50 | 77,447 | 77,167 | 0.40 |
| BMW 3-Series | 5,556 | 6,740 | -17.60 | 59,449 | 70,458 | -15.60 |
| Infiniti Q50 | 5,583 | 5,794 | -3.60 | 40,739 | 44,007 | -7.40 |
| BMW 4-Series | 3,411 | 3,634 | -6.10 | 39,634 | 35,763 | 10.80 |
| Audi A4 | 4,277 | 4,320 | -1.00 | 37,674 | 36,987 | 1.90 |
| Acura TLX | 3,101 | 3,621 | -14.40 | 34,846 | 37,153 | -6.20 |
| Lexus IS | 2,777 | 4,432 | -37.30 | 26,482 | 37,289 | -29.00 |
| Audi A5 | 2,958 | 591 | 400.50 | 21,301 | 8,354 | 155.00 |
| Mercedes-Benz CLA-Class | 2,279 | 1,876 | 21.50 | 20,669 | 25,792 | -19.90 |
| Volvo S60 | 1,338 | 2,666 | -49.80 | 16,825 | 20,921 | -19.60 |
| Cadillac ATS | 1,093 | 2,292 | -52.30 | 13,100 | 21,505 | -39.10 |
| BMW 2-Series | 1,188 | 1,085 | 9.50 | 11,737 | 15,519 | -24.40 |
| Infiniti Q60 | 869 | 1,018 | -14.60 | 10,751 | 3,970 | 170.80 |
| Jaguar XE | 707 | 1,162 | -39.20 | 9,278 | 6,656 | 39.40 |
| Alfa Romeo Giulia | 1,011 | 29 | 0.00 | 8,903 | 36 | 24,630.60 |
| Lexus RC | 686 | 1,042 | -34.20 | 7,363 | 11,165 | -34.10 |
| BMW i3 | 672 | 791 | -15.00 | 6,276 | 7,625 | -17.70 |
| Lexus CT | 9 | 968 | -99.10 | 4,690 | 8,903 | -47.30 |
| Mercedes-Benz B-Class | 111 | 54 | 105.60 | 744 | 632 | 17.70 |
| Infiniti Q40 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 59 | -100.00 |
| Model | US | US LY | US vs LY | YTD | YTD LY | YTD vs LY |
| ∑ = 44,961 | ∑ = 50,539 | ∑ = 459,665 | ∑ = 484,558 |
Midsize Luxury Car Sales
| Model | US | US LY | US vs LY | YTD | YTD LY | YTD vs LY |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lexus ES | 5,047 | 6,239 | -19.10 | 51,398 | 58,299 | -11.80 |
| Mercedes-Benz E / CLS-Class | 5,385 | 4,851 | 11.00 | 51,312 | 50,896 | 0.80 |
| BMW 5-Series | 4,743 | 2,115 | 124.30 | 40,658 | 32,408 | 25.50 |
| Lincoln MKZ | 2,293 | 2,650 | -13.50 | 27,387 | 30,534 | -10.30 |
| Audi A6 | 1,970 | 2,016 | -2.30 | 16,304 | 18,686 | -12.70 |
| Cadillac XTS | 1,224 | 3,129 | -60.90 | 16,275 | 22,171 | -26.60 |
| Genesis G80 | 1,542 | 1,354 | 13.90 | 16,196 | 6,166 | 162.70 |
| Lincoln Continental | 1,216 | 1,845 | -34.10 | 12,012 | 5,261 | 128.30 |
| Volvo 90 Series | 1,148 | 1,127 | 1.90 | 11,090 | 2,756 | 302.40 |
| Cadillac CT6 | 841 | 1,293 | -35.00 | 10,542 | 9,169 | 15.00 |
| Cadillac CTS | 805 | 1,697 | -52.60 | 10,344 | 15,911 | -35.00 |
| Lexus GS | 916 | 1,325 | -30.90 | 7,773 | 14,878 | -47.80 |
| Infiniti Q70 | 406 | 580 | -30.00 | 5,772 | 5,872 | -1.70 |
| Maserati Ghibli | 569 | 746 | -23.70 | 5,531 | 7,100 | -22.10 |
| Audi A7 | 453 | 811 | -44.10 | 4,810 | 6,558 | -26.70 |
| Jaguar XF | 345 | 486 | -29.00 | 4,541 | 6,665 | -31.90 |
| Tesla Model 3 | 900 | 0 | 0.00 | 2,320 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Acura RLX | 186 | 192 | -3.10 | 1,237 | 1,478 | -16.30 |
| Kia K900 | 35 | 80 | -56.30 | 455 | 834 | -45.40 |
| Lincoln MKS | 0 | 215 | -100.00 | 153 | 4,951 | -96.90 |
| Volvo 80 Series | 1 | 13 | -92.30 | 7 | 644 | -98.90 |
| Model | US | US LY | US vs LY | YTD | YTD LY | YTD vs LY |
| ∑ = 30,025 | ∑ = 32,764 | ∑ = 296,117 | ∑ = 301,237 |