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Canada's automobile industry got off to a good start in 2014 after the first month of 2013 had actually been a slow beginning in a record year.
Yet overall new vehicle sales grew by the narrowest of margins as pickup trucks, minivans, and (especially) passenger cars declined sharply.
SUVs and crossovers, on the other hand, 84 nameplates in all, combined for a 16% year-over-year increase compared to the performance of 85 SUV/CUV nameplates in January 2013.
The 11 most popular utility vehicle nameplates - Escape through Sorento - accounted for 47% of the category's January 2014 volume. Premium brands collectively recorded a 21% year-over-year utility vehicle sales improvement.
Together, Acura, Audi, BMW, Cadillac, Infiniti, Land Rover, Lexus, Lincoln, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, and Volvo were responsible for generating 16% of the category's January volume.
BMW led all premium brands with 951 sales from its four X models, a 58% gain. Mercedes-Benz was the only premium brand to sell fewer SUVs/CUVs in January 2014 than one year earlier, but that 39-unit loss didn't stop Mercedes-Benz Canada from reporting its best January ever.
The leading premium SUV, the 20th-ranked X5, was closely followed by the Audi Q5 and Lexus RX in 21st and 22nd spots. The RX relied on its hybrid version for 12% of the nameplate's sales.
There were exciting improvements introduced in October's rankings of vehicle sales. Prior year figures now include the actual numbers from last year, not just the percentage increases/decreases from last year. As a result, we now include vehicles like the Hyundai Veracruz and Jeep Liberty, nameplates which collected sales in January 2013 but not during January 2014. At any time, click the Rank column to return to the original format. If you're on a mobile device, you may need to choose the full version of the site (at the bottom of the page) in order to use the sortable function.
Reminder: these are January 2014 rankings, but you can rank SUVs and crossovers by improvements or declines using the % columns. Or, most importantly, you can list automakers together by selecting the SUV/Crossover column header.
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 • January 2015 • February 2014 • December 2013
Source: Automakers & 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.
³ Total Santa Fe sales: down 9.9% to 1539
º Land Cruiser is a commercial vehicle in Canada.
^ Escalade here does not include sales of the EXT, which is shown with pickup trucks.
Rather than listing the 500L with the Mini Paceman and Countryman in these SUV/crossover rankings, it's with cars in large part because it is not available with all-wheel-drive. The placement of numerous crossovers often prompts disagreement, but consider the vehicle type's name: crossover. By its very definition, it crosses over from one category into another. The very act of calling, for example, the Toyota Venza a car or a utility vehicle requires ignorance of the fact that the Venza (or Outback, Crosstour, Encore, Countryman, 500L) is a square peg that can't be squeezed through a round hole.
This post was updated at 1:10 PM on 04.14.2014 to add 9 sales to the 4Runner's tally, and thus the overall total, as well.
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January 2014 Canada SUV And Crossover Sales Rankings - Top 84 Best-Selling SUVs In Canada - Every SUV Ranked
Yet overall new vehicle sales grew by the narrowest of margins as pickup trucks, minivans, and (especially) passenger cars declined sharply.
SUVs and crossovers, on the other hand, 84 nameplates in all, combined for a 16% year-over-year increase compared to the performance of 85 SUV/CUV nameplates in January 2013.
• Cars Are Still Making Way For SUVs & Crossovers - Timothy Cain @ AutoFocus
Together, Acura, Audi, BMW, Cadillac, Infiniti, Land Rover, Lexus, Lincoln, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, and Volvo were responsible for generating 16% of the category's January volume.
BMW led all premium brands with 951 sales from its four X models, a 58% gain. Mercedes-Benz was the only premium brand to sell fewer SUVs/CUVs in January 2014 than one year earlier, but that 39-unit loss didn't stop Mercedes-Benz Canada from reporting its best January ever.
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The leading premium SUV, the 20th-ranked X5, was closely followed by the Audi Q5 and Lexus RX in 21st and 22nd spots. The RX relied on its hybrid version for 12% of the nameplate's sales.
Reminder: these are January 2014 rankings, but you can rank SUVs and crossovers by improvements or declines using the % columns. Or, most importantly, you can list automakers together by selecting the SUV/Crossover column header.
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 • January 2015 • February 2014 • December 2013
Rank | SUV/Crossover | January 2014 | January 2013 | % Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Ford Escape | 2,597 | 2,741 | -5.3% |
| #2 | Toyota RAV4 | 2,160 | 672 | 221% |
| #3 | Dodge Journey | 1,950 | 1,996 | -2.3% |
| #4 | Nissan Rogue | 1,872 | 823 | 127% |
| #5 | Honda CR-V | 1,437 | 1,414 | 1.6% |
| #6 | Jeep Cherokee | 1,310 | --- | --- |
| #7 | Hyundai Santa Fe Sport ³ | 1,289 | 1,709 | -24.6% |
| #8 | Chevrolet Equinox | 1,130 | 1,035 | 9.2% |
| #9 | Mazda CX-5 | 960 | 782 | 22.8% |
| #10 | Kia Sorento | 864 | 753 | 14.7% |
| #11 | Ford Edge | 843 | 789 | 6.8% |
| #12 | Hyundai Tucson | 823 | 707 | 16.4% |
| #13 | Jeep Wrangler | 809 | 1,048 | -22.8% |
| #14 | Subaru Forester | 808 | 335 | 141% |
| #15 | Jeep Grand Cherokee | 791 | 803 | -1.5% |
| #16 | Volkswagen Tiguan | 647 | 289 | 124% |
| #17 | GMC Terrain | 634 | 800 | -20.8% |
| #18 | Nissan Pathfinder | 622 | 399 | 55.9% |
| #19 | Ford Explorer | 597 | 623 | -4.2% |
| #20 | BMW X5 | 441 | 193 | 128% |
| #21 | Audi Q5 | 438 | 435 | 0.7% |
| #22 | Lexus RX | 437 | 414 | 5.6% |
| #22.1 | Lexus RX350 * | 383 | 364 | 5.2% |
| #22.2 | Lexus RX450h * | 54 | 50 | 8.0% |
| #23 | Mitsubishi Outlander | 415 | 343 | 21.0% |
| #24 | Kia Sportage | 413 | 422 | -2.1% |
| #25 | Toyota Highlander | 391 | 387 | 1.0% |
| #25.1 | Toyota Highlander * | 340 | 328 | 3.7% |
| #25.2 | Toyota Highlander Hybrid * | 51 | 59 | -13.6% |
| #26 | Acura MDX | 355 | 257 | 38.1% |
| #27 | Chevrolet Trax | 345 | 260 | 32.7% |
| #28 | Acura RDX | 322 | 370 | -13.0% |
| #29 | Honda Pilot | 307 | 272 | 12.9% |
| #30 | Jeep Patriot | 303 | 726 | -58.3% |
| #31 | Toyota 4Runner | 298 | 190 | 56.1% |
| #32 | Mitsubishi RVR | 297 | 579 | -48.7% |
| #33 | Infiniti QX60/JX35 | 296 | 160 | 85.0% |
| #34 | Jeep Compass | 294 | 799 | -63.2% |
| #35 | Dodge Durango | 288 | 138 | 109% |
| #36 | Mercedes-Benz GLK-Class | 287 | 256 | 12.1% |
| #37 | Mercedes-Benz M-Class | 283 | 283 | 0.0% |
| #38 | GMC Acadia | 265 | 277 | -4.3% |
| #39 | Lincoln MKX | 262 | 174 | 50.6% |
| T40 | BMW X1 | 250 | 89 | 181% |
| T40 | Hyundai Santa Fe XL ³ | 250 | --- | --- |
| #42 | Buick Encore | 232 | 1 | 23,100% |
| #43 | BMW X3 | 221 | 281 | -21.4% |
| #44 | Cadillac SRX | 216 | 175 | 23.4% |
| #45 | Land Rover Range Rover Sport | 215 | 108 | 99.1% |
| #46 | Nissan Juke | 196 | 179 | 9.5% |
| #47 | Chevrolet Traverse | 169 | 184 | -8.2% |
| #48 | Buick Enclave | 167 | 195 | -14.4% |
| #49 | Nissan Murano | 153 | 218 | -29.8% |
| #50 | Mini Countryman | 150 | 97 | 54.6% |
| #51 | Volkswagen Touareg | 137 | 135 | 1.5% |
| #52 | Porsche Cayenne | 129 | 88 | 46.6% |
| #53 | Audi Q7 | 118 | 103 | 14.6% |
| #54 | Infiniti QX50/EX | 113 | 124 | -8.9% |
| #55 | Mercedes-Benz GL-Class | 102 | 178 | -42.7% |
| #56 | Land Rover Range Rover Evoque | 90 | 90 | 0.0% |
| T57 | Land Rover Range Rover | 87 | 84 | 3.6% |
| T57 | Mazda CX-9 | 87 | 180 | -51.7% |
| #59 | Volvo XC60 | 82 | 82 | 0.0% |
| #60 | Ford Expedition | 79 | 122 | -35.2% |
| #61 | Ford Flex | 75 | 108 | -30.6% |
| T62 | GMC Yukon | 67 | 66 | 1.5% |
| T62 | Toyota Sequoia | 67 | 60 | 11.7% |
| #64 | Nissan Xterra | 65 | 59 | 10.2% |
| #65 | Chevrolet Tahoe | 62 | 61 | 1.6% |
| #66 | Lexus GX460 | 60 | 26 | 131% |
| #67 | Toyota FJ Cruiser | 51 | 47 | 8.5% |
| T68 | Infiniti QX80/QX56 | 46 | 27 | 70.4% |
| T68 | GMC Yukon XL | 45 | 35 | 28.6% |
| #70 | Land Rover LR4 | 43 | 23 | 87.0% |
| #71 | BMW X6 | 39 | 40 | -2.5% |
| #72 | Lincoln MKT | 36 | 21 | 71.4% |
| T73 | Land Rover LR2 | 33 | 34 | -2.9% |
| T73 | Nissan Armada | 33 | 30 | 10.0% |
| #75 | Volvo XC90 | 32 | 27 | 18.5% |
| #76 | Infiniti QX70/FX | 31 | 49 | -36.7% |
| T77 | Lincoln Navigator | 30 | 24 | 25.0% |
| T77 | Chevrolet Suburban | 30 | 51 | -41.2% |
| #79 | Cadillac Escalade ^ | 29 | 41 | -29.3% |
| T79.2 | Cadillac Escalade * | 22 | 31 | -29.0% |
| T79.3 | Cadillac Escalade ESV * | 7 | 10 | -30.0% |
| #80 | Lexus LX570 | 25 | 16 | 56.3% |
| #81 | Mercedes-Benz G-Class | 19 | 13 | 46.2% |
| #82 | Subaru Tribeca | 18 | 15 | 20.0% |
| #83 | Toyota Land Cruiser º | 14 | 2 | 600% |
| #84 | Acura ZDX | 1 | 3 | -66.7% |
| #85 | Suzuki Grand Vitara | --- | 94 | -100% |
| #86 | Hyundai Veracruz | --- | 84 | -100% |
| #87 | Jeep Liberty | --- | 6 | -100% |
--- | Total | 33,074 | 28,428 | 16.3% |
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
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.
³ Total Santa Fe sales: down 9.9% to 1539
º Land Cruiser is a commercial vehicle in Canada.
^ Escalade here does not include sales of the EXT, which is shown with pickup trucks.
Rather than listing the 500L with the Mini Paceman and Countryman in these SUV/crossover rankings, it's with cars in large part because it is not available with all-wheel-drive. The placement of numerous crossovers often prompts disagreement, but consider the vehicle type's name: crossover. By its very definition, it crosses over from one category into another. The very act of calling, for example, the Toyota Venza a car or a utility vehicle requires ignorance of the fact that the Venza (or Outback, Crosstour, Encore, Countryman, 500L) is a square peg that can't be squeezed through a round hole.
This post was updated at 1:10 PM on 04.14.2014 to add 9 sales to the 4Runner's tally, and thus the overall total, as well.
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