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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
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.
* ANDC estimate
** HybridCars.com estimate
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U.S. Passenger Car Sales Rankings - April 2013/YTD
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U.S. Auto Sales Brand Rankings - April 2013
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April 2013 U.S. Luxury Car Sales Rankings By Model - Top 56 Best-Selling Luxury Car Sales In America - Every Luxury Car Ranked
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.
All 149 Cars Ranked By April 2013 & YTD U.S. Sales
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.
All 90 Luxury Vehicles Ranked By April 2013 & YTD U.S. Sales
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
Rank | Car | April 2013 YTD | % Change | April 2013 | % Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
#1 | Mercedes-Benz C-Class | 30,250 | + 23.3% | 7338 | + 14.2% |
#2 | BMW 3-Series | 28,898 | - 14.3% | 8236 | - 8.5% |
#3 | Lexus ES | 21,923 | + 89.8% | 5122 | + 70.7% |
#4 | Mercedes-Benz E-Class | 18,120 | - 5.6% | 4431 | - 16.8% |
#5 | BMW 5-Series | 17,373 | + 6.7% | 5234 | + 46.8% |
#6 | Infiniti G | 16,406 | - 10.2% | 3490 | + 17.8% |
#6.1 | Infiniti G Sedan | 13,080 | - 7.1% | 2696 | + 29.0% |
#6.2 | Infiniti G Coupe/Convertible | 3326 | - 20.8% | 794 | - 8.9% |
#7 | Audi A4 | 13,406 | + 13.7% | 3611 | + 16.2% |
#7.1 | Audi A4 Sedan/Avant | 11,648 | - 1.2% | 3143 | + 1.1% |
#7.2 | Audi A4 Allroad | 1758 | ----- | 468 | ----- |
#8 | Cadillac ATS | 12,475 | ----- | 2725 | ----- |
#9 | Cadillac CTS | 10,260 | - 37.0% | 2398 | - 42.9% |
#10 | Cadillac XTS | 10,021 | ----- | 2891 | ----- |
#11 | Acura TL | 9752 | - 14.6% | 2959 | - 1.3% |
#12 | Lincoln MKZ | 7770 | - 13.1% | 4012 | + 115% |
#13 | Acura ILX | 7508 | ----- | 1894 | ----- |
#14 | Volvo S60 | 7494 | - 2.4% | 1547 | - 10.7% |
#15 | Lexus IS | 6970 | - 22.3% | 1797 | - 23.3% |
#16 | Audi A6 | 6280 | + 22.0% | 1905 | + 21.7% |
#17 | Audi A5 | 5810 | + 13.2% | 1809 | + 27.4% |
#18 | Acura TSX | 5798 | - 52.2% | 1622 | - 48.3% |
#18.1 | Acura TSX Sedan | 4979 | - 54.2% | 1416 | - 49.6% |
#18.2 | Acura TSX SportWagon | 819 | - 35.2% | 206 | - 37.8% |
#19 | Lexus GS | 5325 | - 24.5% | 1236 | - 38.4% |
#20 | Lexus CT200h | 4416 | - 32.2% | 1171 | - 27.7% |
#21 | Mercedes-Benz S-Class | 4180 | + 19.2% | 1103 | + 16.4% |
#22 | Porsche 911 | 3613 | + 16.8% | 891 | - 18.3% |
#23 | Lexus LS | 3560 | + 69.4% | 700 | + 59.8% |
#24 | Lincoln MKS | 3485 | - 24.0% | 730 | - 43.8% |
#25 | BMW 7-Series | 3209 | - 17.6% | 871 | + 68.8% |
#26 | BMW 6-Series | 2831 | + 28.1% | 760 | + 48.1% |
#27 | Audi A7 | 2728 | - 2.7% | 645 | - 17.3% |
#28 | Jaguar XF | 2608 | + 29.8% | 709 | + 54.5% |
#29 | Mercedes-Benz SL-Class | 2422 | + 366% | 938 | + 275% |
#30 | Mercedes-Benz CLS-Class | 2335 | - 2.9% | 640 | - 1.1% |
#31 | Infiniti M | 1956 | - 40.0% | 388 | - 15.8% |
#32 | Audi A8 | 1929 | + 35.6% | 467 | + 30.4% |
#33 | BMW 1-Series | 1917 | - 32.4% | 626 | - 15.5% |
#34 | Porsche Panamera | 1885 | - 31.1% | 501 | - 42.3% |
#35 | Porsche Boxster | 1795 | + 1210% | 496 | + 1278% |
#36 | Mercedes-Benz SLK | 1585 | + 1.7% | 451 | - 3.4% |
#37 | Jaguar XJ | 1568 | - 9.1% | 323 | - 35.5% |
#38 | Volvo XC70 | 1559 | - 7.9% | 439 | + 26.5% |
#39 | BMW Z4 | 854 | - 3.8% | 230 | - 17.3% |
#40 | Volvo C70 | 824 | - 46.5% | 224 | - 44.8% |
#41 | Audi A3 | 798 | - 65.7% | 55 | - 91.4% |
#42 | Acura RLX | 752 | ----- | 400 | ----- |
#43 | Volvo C30 | 706 | - 17.7% | 184 | + 10.8% |
#44 | Volvo S80 | 638 | - 39.6% | 123 | - 52.3% |
#45 | Audi TT | 633 | - 16.0% | 170 | - 17.9% |
#46 | Jaguar XK | 550 | - 17.5% | 109 | - 3.5% |
#47 | Porsche Cayman | 457 | + 30.9% | 394 | + 488% |
#48 | Audi R8 | 238 | - 29.0% | 71 | - 22.8% |
#49 | Mercedes-Benz CL-Class | 192 | - 29.7% | 37 | - 41.3% |
#50 | Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG | 165 | - 57.7% | 46 | - 55.8% |
#51 | Acura RL | 39 | - 70.5% | 7 | - 78.8% |
#52 | Mercedes-Benz R-Class | 20 | - 96.5% | ----- | - 100% |
#53 | Lexus LFA | 15 | - 21.1% | 6 | + 20.0% |
#54 | Cadillac DTS | 3 | - 98.9% | ----- | - 100% |
T55 | Cadillac STS | 2 | - 98.1% | 1 | - 95.0% |
T55 | Lexus HS250h | 2 | - 99.7% | ----- | - 100% |
--- | Total | 298,308 | + 7.0% | 79,163 | + 13.5% |
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
Tesla Model S ** | 6850 | ----- | 2100 | ----- | |
| Chevrolet Corvette | 3915 | - 9.5% | 974 | - 30.2% | |
| Hyundai Equus | 1075 | - 15.9% | 261 | - 25.6% | |
| Nissan GT-R | 371 | + 7.8% | 103 | - 12.7% | |
| SRT (Dodge) Viper | 64 | + 220% | 60 | ----- | |
--- | Total | 12,275 | + 106% | 3498 | + 87.6% |
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
Aston Martin * | 276 | + 1.5% | 69 | + 1.5% | |
Bentley | 781 | + 19.6% | 207 | + 2.0% | |
Ferrari * | 648 | + 3.2% | 162 | + 3.2% | |
Lamborghini * | 184 | + 7.0% | 46 | + 7.0% | |
Lotus * | 88 | + 10.0% | 22 | + 10.0% | |
Maserati | 753 | - 9.7% | 204 | - 12.1% | |
Maybach * | ----- | - 100% | ----- | - 100% | |
Rolls-Royce * | 336 | + 6.3% | 84 | + 6.3% | |
--- | Total | 3066 | + 3.2% | 794 | + 1.5% |
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
--- | Overall Total | 313,649 | + 9.0% | 83,455 | + 15.3% |
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.
* ANDC estimate
** HybridCars.com estimate
RECOMMENDED READING
U.S. Passenger Car Sales Rankings - April 2013/YTD
U.S. Vehicle Sales Rankings - April 2013/YTD
U.S. Vehicle Sales Rankings - April 2012 YTD
U.S. Auto Sales Brand Rankings - April 2013
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