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

U.S. sales of the BMW 3-Series and its 4-Series offshoot increased in February 2015, the 22nd consecutive month in which sales of BMW’s most popular model improved on a year-over-year basis.

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

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The 3er’s top competitor, the Mercedes-Benz C-Class, is now readily available in fourth-gen W205 form, and sales are improving as a result.

C-Class volume jumped 26% to 7072 units, 3.7 times the figure achieved by the aging Audi A4.

In between the Benz and the Audi were a handful of other premium brand nameplates: Lexus’s ES, the Infiniti Q50, BMW’s 5-Series, the Acura TLX, Lexus IS, Mercedes-Benz CLA, Mercedes-Benz E-Class, Audi’s own A3, and the smallest and largest Cadillac cars.

Don’t underestimate the strength that will likely be displayed by a next-gen 2016 Audi A4. Brand-wide Audi sales have now increased in 50 consecutive months. Each new launch is more successful than the last, and the A3 certainly proves that a new Audi can be way more successful than its predecessor. Audi USA has sold more A3s in the last twelve months than in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013 combined.

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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Small/Entry Luxury Car	February 2015	February 2014	% Change	2015 YTD	2014 YTD	% Change
Acura ILX *	959	1301	-26.3%	1951	2458	-20.6%
Acura TLX	3419	—	—	6311	—	—
Acura TSX	4	911	-99.6%	10	1804	-99.4%
Audi A3	2279	563	305%	4662	563	728%
Audi A4 ^	1924	2497	-22.9%	3714	4995	-25.6%
Audi A5 *	831	1030	-19.3%	1674	1955	-14.4%
BMW 2-Series (& 1-Series) *^	523	272	92.3%	898	347	159%
BMW 3-Series & 4-Series ^	8748	7791	12.3%	16,096	14,285	12.7%
BMW i3	1089	—	—	1759	—	—
Cadillac ATS	2028	2427	-16.4%	3785	4336	-12.7%
Infiniti Q40/G Sedan	1643	927	77.2%	2672	1829	46.1%
Infiniti Q50 ^	3649	3275	11.4%	6615	6224	6.3%
Infiniti Q60	346	411	-15.8%	812	824	-1.5%
Lexus CT200h	978	1230	-20.5%	1983	2520	-21.3%
Lexus IS	3383	3517	-3.8%	6758	6565	2.9%
Lexus RC	984	—	—	1831	—	—
Mercedes-Benz B-Class *	109	—	—	349	—	—
Mercedes-Benz C-Class	7072	5621	25.8%	13,308	11,369	17.1%
Mercedes-Benz CLA-Class	2606	1971	32.2%	5097	4404	15.7%
Volvo C30	—	14	-100%	—	26	-100%
Volvo S60	1203	1578	-24.0%	2574	2900	-11.0%
Volvo V60	339	335	1.0%	631	657	-4.0%
Volvo V60 Cross Country	70	—	—	98	—	—
—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Total	44,186	35,671	23.9%	83,588	68,061	22.8%

Midsize Luxury Car	February 2015	February 2014	% Change	2015 YTD	2014 YTD	% Change
Acura RLX	173	371	-53.4%	349	791	-55.9%
Acura TL	22	1480	-98.5%	40	2848	-98.6%
Audi A6	1282	1743	-26.4%	2484	3224	-23.0%
Audi A7 *	229	628	-63.5%	514	1252	-58.9%
BMW 5-Series	3606	3818	-5.6%	6965	7087	-1.7%
Cadillac CTS	1438	2509	-42.7%	3136	4741	-33.9%
Cadillac XTS	1960	2106	-6.9%	3842	3754	2.3%
Hyundai Equus	207	260	-20.4%	427	587	-27.3%
Infiniti Q70	707	458	54.4%	1334	947	40.9%
Jaguar XF	703	896	-21.5%	1347	1554	-13.3%
Kia K900	62	—	—	181	—	—
Lexus ES	4192	4360	-3.9%	8272	8319	-0.6%
Lexus GS	1851	1574	17.6%	3530	2874	22.8%
Lincoln MKS	559	771	-27.5%	1204	1406	-14.4%
Lincoln MKZ	1834	3044	-39.8%	3664	5166	-29.1%
Mercedes-Benz CLS-Class *	343	459	-25.3%	749	879	-14.8%
Mercedes-Benz E-Class	2409	4271	-43.6%	6745	9537	-29.3%
Mercedes-Benz R-Class	—	2	-100%	—	4	-100%
Volvo S80	70	85	-17.6%	282	437	-35.5%
Volvo XC70 *	316	267	18.4%	646	528	22.3%
—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Total	21,963	29,102	-24.5%	45,711	55,935	-18.3%

Source: Automakers & ANDC
* vehicle also displayed in another GCBC segment breakdown
^ BMW USA, not GCBC, has decided to combine sales figures for the 3-Series and 4-Series, the 1-Series and 2-Series.
^ A4 includes Allroad, without which A4 sales were ____ in February; ____ 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 posts.

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