Small And Midsize Luxury Car Sales In America – August 2015 YTD

Audi, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz combined to sell 6834 A3s, 2-Series’, and CLA-Class sedans in the United States in August 2015, an 18% year-over-year improvement.

Yet the total number of sales achieved by the German luxury trio’s entry-level cars pales in comparison to the total achieved by America’s best-selling premium brand car, the BMW 3-Series.

U.S. Vehicle Sales Rankings By Model – August 2015 YTD
U.S. Car Sales Rankings By Model – August 2015 YTD

3-Series sales jumped 24% to 10,163 units in August 2015, pulling the year-to-date improvement for the core BMW model up to 4%, a 2168-unit increase compared with the first eight months of 2015.

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The 3-Series’ domination doesn’t mean its rivals all fail to succeed. Infiniti Q50 sales are rising quickly in 2015. Mercedes-Benz’s still fresh C-Class has recorded 56,875 year-to-date U.S. sales, up 30%. 

Yet in addition to the nearly 61,000 3-Series’ sold by BMW USA so far this year, the company has also sold 31,036 copies of the 4-Series. The 4-Series, you’ll recall, was previously a part of the 3-Series lineup. Together, their sales are up 12% to 91,711 so far this year.

You can click any model name in the tables below to find historical monthly and yearly U.S. auto sales data. You can also select a make and model at GCBC’s Sales Stats page. These tables are now sortable, so you can rank luxury brand cars any which way you like. Suggestions on how GCBC should break down segments can be passed on through the Contact page.

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Source: Automakers & ANDC
* vehicle also displayed in another GCBC segment breakdown
^ BMW USA, previously combined sales figures of the 3-Series and 4-Series but recently began splitting the pair. 2-Series figures continue to take old 1-Series sales into account.
^ A4 includes Allroad, without which A4 sales were down 21% to 2541 in August; down 22% to 18,306 YTD.
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. This explains why you’ll see the Acura ILX here but also with mainstream cars like the Buick Verano, too, and the Audi A5 is also displayed with coupes and convertibles… because readers have wanted it both ways. Hyundai USA, not GoodCarBadCar, chooses to combine sales figures for the Genesis sedan and Genesis Coupe, forcing us to include the Genesis with volume-brand cars on pricing grounds before we even get to the “brand status” issue. The K900, Equus, and XTS are here not because of their size but because of their price points, their lack of direct comparability with the Mercedes-Benz S-Class. 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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