America’s luxury passenger car market has grown faster this year than the overall car market, albeit only slightly.
Car sales in America are up 3% this year, having risen 2.8% in April 2013. But sales generated by Acura, Audi, BMW, Cadillac, Infiniti, Jaguar, Lexus, Lincoln, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, and Volvo are up 7% this year, having risen 13.5% in April.
For the first time, GoodCarBadCar has taken all the sales figures from the all the cars produced by these manufacturers and thrown them into one 56-nameplate list. Nearer to the bottom, you’ll also find sales figures for the Chevrolet Corvette, Hyundai Equus, Nissan GT-R, Tesla Model S (estimated), and numerous brands which don’t report model-specific sales data but do, for now, sell only passenger cars. When all those cars are included, luxury car sales are up 9% this year, those two extra percentage points coming in large part from the Tesla.
We hope to supply an SUV/crossover version of this post and a full luxury vehicle version in the coming days, if not the coming hours.
These are year-to-date rankings, but you can sort cars by April volume by clicking the April 2013 column header, or you can rank cars by improvements or declines using the % columns. Or, most importantly, you can list an automaker’s cars together by selecting the Car column header. Just remember, the list is horizontally flipped from the norm: YTD on the left, monthly data on the right.
As always, you can find historical monthly and yearly sales figures for any of these vehicles by selecting a make and model at GCBC’s Sales Stats page.
Click Column Headers To Sort – March 2013
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Rank
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Car
|
April 2013 YTD
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% Change
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April
2013 |
% Change
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#1
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Mercedes-Benz C-Class | 30,250 | + 23.3% | 7338 | + 14.2% |
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#2
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BMW 3-Series | 28,898 | – 14.3% | 8236 | – 8.5% |
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#3
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Lexus ES | 21,923 | + 89.8% | 5122 | + 70.7% |
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#4
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Mercedes-Benz E-Class | 18,120 | – 5.6% | 4431 | – 16.8% |
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#5
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BMW 5-Series | 17,373 | + 6.7% | 5234 | + 46.8% |
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#6
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Infiniti G | 16,406 | – 10.2% | 3490 | + 17.8% |
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#6.1
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Infiniti G Sedan | 13,080 | – 7.1% | 2696 | + 29.0% |
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#6.2
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Infiniti G Coupe/Convertible | 3326 | – 20.8% | 794 | – 8.9% |
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#7
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Audi A4 | 13,406 | + 13.7% | 3611 | + 16.2% |
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#7.1
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Audi A4 Sedan/Avant | 11,648 | – 1.2% | 3143 | + 1.1% |
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#7.2
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Audi A4 Allroad | 1758 | —– | 468 | —– |
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#8
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Cadillac ATS | 12,475 | —– | 2725 | —– |
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#9
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Cadillac CTS | 10,260 | – 37.0% | 2398 | – 42.9% |
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#10
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Cadillac XTS | 10,021 | —– | 2891 | —– |
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#11
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Acura TL | 9752 | – 14.6% | 2959 | – 1.3% |
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#12
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Lincoln MKZ | 7770 | – 13.1% | 4012 | + 115% |
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#13
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Acura ILX | 7508 | —– | 1894 | —– |
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#14
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Volvo S60 | 7494 | – 2.4% | 1547 | – 10.7% |
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#15
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Lexus IS | 6970 | – 22.3% | 1797 | – 23.3% |
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#16
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Audi A6 | 6280 | + 22.0% | 1905 | + 21.7% |
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#17
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Audi A5 | 5810 | + 13.2% | 1809 | + 27.4% |
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#18
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Acura TSX | 5798 | – 52.2% | 1622 | – 48.3% |
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#18.1
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Acura TSX Sedan | 4979 | – 54.2% | 1416 | – 49.6% |
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#18.2
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Acura TSX SportWagon | 819 | – 35.2% | 206 | – 37.8% |
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#19
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Lexus GS | 5325 | – 24.5% | 1236 | – 38.4% |
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#20
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Lexus CT200h | 4416 | – 32.2% | 1171 | – 27.7% |
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#21
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Mercedes-Benz S-Class | 4180 | + 19.2% | 1103 | + 16.4% |
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#22
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Porsche 911 | 3613 | + 16.8% | 891 | – 18.3% |
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#23
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Lexus LS | 3560 | + 69.4% | 700 | + 59.8% |
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#24
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Lincoln MKS | 3485 | – 24.0% | 730 | – 43.8% |
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#25
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BMW 7-Series | 3209 | – 17.6% | 871 | + 68.8% |
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#26
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BMW 6-Series | 2831 | + 28.1% | 760 | + 48.1% |
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#27
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Audi A7 | 2728 | – 2.7% | 645 | – 17.3% |
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#28
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Jaguar XF | 2608 | + 29.8% | 709 | + 54.5% |
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#29
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Mercedes-Benz SL-Class | 2422 | + 366% | 938 | + 275% |
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#30
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Mercedes-Benz CLS-Class | 2335 | – 2.9% | 640 | – 1.1% |
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#31
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Infiniti M | 1956 | – 40.0% | 388 | – 15.8% |
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#32
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Audi A8 | 1929 | + 35.6% | 467 | + 30.4% |
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#33
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BMW 1-Series | 1917 | – 32.4% | 626 | – 15.5% |
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#34
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Porsche Panamera | 1885 | – 31.1% | 501 | – 42.3% |
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#35
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Porsche Boxster | 1795 | + 1210% | 496 | + 1278% |
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#36
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Mercedes-Benz SLK | 1585 | + 1.7% | 451 | – 3.4% |
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#37
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Jaguar XJ | 1568 | – 9.1% | 323 | – 35.5% |
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#38
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Volvo XC70 | 1559 | – 7.9% | 439 | + 26.5% |
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#39
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BMW Z4 | 854 | – 3.8% | 230 | – 17.3% |
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#40
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Volvo C70 | 824 | – 46.5% | 224 | – 44.8% |
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#41
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Audi A3 | 798 | – 65.7% | 55 | – 91.4% |
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#42
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Acura RLX | 752 | —– | 400 | —– |
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#43
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Volvo C30 | 706 | – 17.7% | 184 | + 10.8% |
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#44
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Volvo S80 | 638 | – 39.6% | 123 | – 52.3% |
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#45
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Audi TT | 633 | – 16.0% | 170 | – 17.9% |
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#46
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Jaguar XK | 550 | – 17.5% | 109 | – 3.5% |
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#47
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Porsche Cayman | 457 | + 30.9% | 394 | + 488% |
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#48
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Audi R8 | 238 | – 29.0% | 71 | – 22.8% |
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#49
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Mercedes-Benz CL-Class | 192 | – 29.7% | 37 | – 41.3% |
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#50
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Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG | 165 | – 57.7% | 46 | – 55.8% |
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#51
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Acura RL | 39 | – 70.5% | 7 | – 78.8% |
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#52
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Mercedes-Benz R-Class | 20 | – 96.5% | —– | – 100% |
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#53
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Lexus LFA | 15 | – 21.1% | 6 | + 20.0% |
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#54
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Cadillac DTS | 3 | – 98.9% | —– | – 100% |
|
T55
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Cadillac STS | 2 | – 98.1% | 1 | – 95.0% |
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T55
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Lexus HS250h | 2 | – 99.7% | —– | – 100% |
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Total
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298,308 | + 7.0% | 79,163 | + 13.5% |
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Tesla Model S **
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6850 | —– | 2100 | —– |
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Chevrolet Corvette | 3915 | – 9.5% | 974 | – 30.2% |
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Hyundai Equus | 1075 | – 15.9% | 261 | – 25.6% |
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Nissan GT-R | 371 | + 7.8% | 103 | – 12.7% |
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SRT (Dodge) Viper | 64 | + 220% | 60 | —– |
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Total
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12,275 | + 106% | 3498 | + 87.6% |
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Aston Martin *
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276 | + 1.5% | 69 | + 1.5% |
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781 | + 19.6% | 207 | + 2.0% | |
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Ferrari *
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648 | + 3.2% | 162 | + 3.2% |
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Lamborghini *
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184 | + 7.0% | 46 | + 7.0% |
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Lotus *
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88 | + 10.0% | 22 | + 10.0% |
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753 | – 9.7% | 204 | – 12.1% | |
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Maybach *
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—– | – 100% | —– | – 100% |
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Rolls-Royce *
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336 | + 6.3% | 84 | + 6.3% |
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Total
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3066 | + 3.2% | 794 | + 1.5% |
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Overall Total
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313,649 | + 9.0% | 83,455 | + 15.3% |
Source: Manufacturers & ANDC
Red font indicates year-over-year declining sales
Italicized unranked lines are nothing more than available breakdowns, already included in the model’s total, not in addition to the model’s total.
* estimate
** HybridCars.com estimate
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