Top 20 Best-Selling Cars In Canada for December 2017
Here you will find the Top 20 best selling car sales leaders in Canada for December 2017. Each month we compile the Top 20 best selling car 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 Top 20 Best Selling Cars in Canada – November 2017 or Top 20 Best Selling Cars in Canada – December 2016. Also check out our other Segment reports.
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The Honda Civic remained Canada’s favourite passenger car in 2017, pushing ahead 6.9% on 2016’s totals as the tenth generation, unveiled for the 2016 model-year, hits its stride.
Its nearest rival? The Toyota Corolla, which ended 2017 ahead of the Hyundai Elantra but no closer to the Civic in terms of sales volume for the year as a whole.
The Elantra slid back 5.7% during the same time as the Corolla posted 10.3% growth and resulting in the pair switching places in terms of year-to-date volume.
In December 2017 alone however, the Hyundai Elantra outsold the Civic, Corolla and Chevrolet Cruze, all of whom outsold it in December 2016 in Canada.
Hyundai as a brand increased its Canadian sales 23% overall on Decmber 2016, with the Elantra’s 33.9% growth over that month’s figures among the sharpest-growing nameplates in Hyundai’s lineup.
The VW Golf rises to sixth from eighth last December, the Toyota Camry rises to seventh from twelfth in December 2016 and the premium sedan Mercedes-Benz C-Class outsold the ageing Ford Focus in the final month of 2017.
Top 20 Best Selling Cars Rankings
This sales table of shows the top car sales performers in 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, US 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.
Model | CA | CA LY | CA vs LY | YTD | YTD LY | YTD vs LY |
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Hyundai Elantra | 2,480 | 1,852 | 33.90 | 46,112 | 48,875 | -5.70 |
Honda Civic | 2,095 | 3,164 | -33.80 | 69,030 | 64,552 | 6.90 |
Toyota Corolla | 1,952 | 2,215 | -11.90 | 50,332 | 45,626 | 10.30 |
Chevrolet Cruze | 1,679 | 2,760 | -39.20 | 27,520 | 26,824 | 2.60 |
Mazda 3 | 1,591 | 1,822 | -12.70 | 27,862 | 27,689 | 0.60 |
Volkswagen Golf | 1,467 | 1,041 | 40.90 | 24,604 | 19,966 | 23.20 |
Toyota Camry | 1,017 | 835 | 21.80 | 14,574 | 15,683 | -7.10 |
Kia Forte | 783 | 579 | 35.20 | 16,388 | 12,296 | 33.30 |
Hyundai Accent | 646 | 624 | 3.50 | 13,073 | 19,198 | -31.90 |
Mercedes-Benz C-Class | 635 | 853 | -25.60 | 10,848 | 9,954 | 9.00 |
Ford Focus | 631 | 1,062 | -40.60 | 11,937 | 16,627 | -28.20 |
Subaru Impreza * | 621 | 448 | 38.60 | 10,617 | 7,456 | 42.40 |
Volkswagen Jetta | 598 | 636 | -6.00 | 17,483 | 20,954 | -16.60 |
Nissan Sentra | 587 | 511 | 14.90 | 13,883 | 14,281 | -2.80 |
Honda Accord | 568 | 905 | -37.20 | 13,504 | 13,857 | -2.50 |
Hyundai Sonata | 558 | 544 | 2.60 | 7,827 | 10,191 | -23.20 |
Chevrolet Malibu | 557 | 635 | -12.30 | 8,152 | 11,503 | -29.10 |
Kia Soul | 537 | 743 | -27.70 | 11,691 | 12,672 | -7.70 |
Chrysler 300 | 494 | 173 | 185.50 | 4,332 | 3,662 | 18.30 |
Dodge Charger | 494 | 212 | 133.00 | 4,862 | 3,738 | 30.10 |
Model | CA | CA LY | CA vs LY | YTD | YTD LY | YTD vs LY |
∑ = 19,990 | ∑ = 21,614 | ∑ = 404,631 | ∑ = 405,604 |