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U.S. sales of the BMW 3-Series continued to decline on a year-over-year basis in April 2013, but it easily held off the Mercedes-Benz C-Class for top-selling luxury car honours. Through four months, the C-Class leads the 3-Series by 1352 units, down from 2250 units at the end of the first quarter.
Among more costly luxury cars, the Mercedes-Benz E-Class is 747 sales ahead of the next-best-selling BMW 5-Series. In a slightly different midsize luxury subset, the much less costly Lexus ES outsells the E-Class and 5-Series and finished 1110 sales ahead of the surging Lincoln MKZ in April.
Size and price don't always establish competitive sets, however. That's why we've thrown all the cars into one chart this month. There's been some rearrangement aimed at simplifying the luxury cars post, simplification we hope to further shortly with a full rundown of luxury brand car sales. Flagship cars like the Mercedes-Benz S-Class are displayed here.
You can click any model name in the tables below to find historical monthly and yearly U.S. 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 U.S. small and midsize luxury cars any which way you like. Suggestions on how GCBC should break down segments can be passed on through the Contact page.
Click Column Headers To Sort - April 2014 - May 2013 - March 2013 - April 2012
Source: Automakers & ANDC
* vehicle also displayed in another GCBC segment breakdown
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, right? 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 and the vast Cadillac XTS is shown with large luxury cars, albeit separately... because readers have wanted it both ways. 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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Small & Midsize Luxury Car Sales In America - March 2013
Small & Midsize Luxury Car Sales In America - April 2012
Top 15, X2, Best-Selling Luxury Vehicles In America - April 2013
U.S. Auto Sales Brand Rankings - April 2013
- Small And Midsize Luxury Car Sales In Canada - April 2014 Ytd
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- Small And Midsize Luxury Car Sales In America - April 2014 Ytd
U.S. sales of the Lexus IS have doubled on a year-over-year basis in each of the last six months, rising 110% in April 2014 and 119% through the first four months of 2014. Click Chart To ExpandLexus dealers are currently left to flog their IS wares...
- Small And Midsize Luxury Car Sales Figures In Canada - May 2013 Ytd
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- Small And Midsize Luxury Car Sales Figures In America - May 2013 Ytd
For the seventh consecutive month, sales of the Infiniti M sedan lineup declined, year-over-year. Mercedes-Benz sells 10 E-Class sedans, coupes, convertibles, and wagons for every solitary Infiniti M sale in America. Even rare cars like the Jaguar XF...
- Luxury Car Sales In Canada - March 2013
BMW Canada is on track to sell more than 13,000 3-Series' for the first time since 2010. Without some uptick, BMW will have sold more 3-Series' in the first quarter than Volvo will have sold S60s in all of 2013. Click Either Chart For Larger View3-Series...
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Small And Midsize Luxury Car Sales Figures In America - April 2013 And Year-To-Date
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Among more costly luxury cars, the Mercedes-Benz E-Class is 747 sales ahead of the next-best-selling BMW 5-Series. In a slightly different midsize luxury subset, the much less costly Lexus ES outsells the E-Class and 5-Series and finished 1110 sales ahead of the surging Lincoln MKZ in April.
All 149 Cars Ranked By April 2013 & YTD U.S. Sales
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You can click any model name in the tables below to find historical monthly and yearly U.S. 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 U.S. small and midsize luxury cars any which way you like. Suggestions on how GCBC should break down segments can be passed on through the Contact page.
Click Column Headers To Sort - April 2014 - May 2013 - March 2013 - April 2012
Midsize Luxury Cars | April 2013 | % Change | Year To Date | YTD % Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Acura RL | 7 | - 78.8% | 39 | - 70.5% |
Acura RLX | 400 | ----- | 752 | ----- |
Acura TL | 2959 | - 1.3% | 9752 | - 14.6% |
Audi A6 | 1905 | + 21.7% | 6280 | + 22.0% |
Audi A7 | 645 | - 17.3% | 2728 | - 2.7% |
BMW 5-Series | 5234 | + 46.8% | 17,373 | + 6.7% |
Cadillac CTS | 2398 | - 42.9% | 10,260 | - 37.0% |
Cadillac DTS | ----- | - 100% | 3 | - 98.9% |
Cadillac STS | 1 | - 95.0% | 2 | - 98.1% |
Cadillac XTS | 2891 | ----- | 10,021 | ----- |
Hyundai Equus | 261 | - 25.6% | 1075 | - 15.9% |
Infiniti M | 388 | - 15.8% | 1956 | - 40.0% |
Jaguar XF | 709 | + 54.5% | 2608 | + 29.8% |
Lexus ES | 5122 | + 70.7% | 21,923 | + 89.8% |
Lexus GS | 1236 | - 38.4% | 5325 | - 24.5% |
Lincoln MKS | 730 | - 30.7% | 1946 | - 9.0% |
Lincoln MKZ | 4012 | + 115% | 7770 | - 13.1% |
Mercedes-Benz CLS-Class | 640 | - 1.1% | 2335 | - 2.9% |
Mercedes-Benz E-Class | 4431 | - 16.8% | 18,120 | - 5.6% |
Mercedes-Benz R-Class | ----- | - 100% | 20 | - 96.5% |
Volvo S80 | 123 | - 52.3% | 638 | - 39.6% |
Volvo XC70 * | 439 | + 26.5% | 1559 | - 7.9% |
Small Luxury Car | April 2013 | % Change | Year To Date | YTD % Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Acura ILX * | 1894 | ----- | 7508 | ----- |
Acura TSX | 1622 | - 48.3% | 5798 | - 52.2% |
Audi A3 | 55 | - 91.4% | 798 | - 65.7% |
Audi A4 | 3143 | + 1.1% | 11,648 | - 1.2% |
Audi A5 * | 1809 | + 27.4% | 5810 | + 13.2% |
BMW 1-Series * | 626 | - 15.5% | 1917 | - 32.4% |
BMW 3-Series | 8236 | - 8.5% | 28,898 | - 14.3% |
Cadillac ATS | 2725 | ----- | 12,475 | ----- |
Infiniti G | 3490 | + 17.8% | 16,406 | - 10.2% |
Lexus CT200h | 1171 | - 27.7% | 4416 | - 32.2% |
Lexus IS | 1797 | - 23.3% | 6970 | - 22.3% |
Mercedes-Benz C-Class | 7338 | + 14.2% | 30,250 | + 23.3% |
Volvo C30 | 184 | + 10.8% | 706 | - 17.7% |
Volvo S60 | 1547 | - 10.7% | 7494 | - 2.4% |
* vehicle also displayed in another GCBC segment breakdown
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, right? 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 and the vast Cadillac XTS is shown with large luxury cars, albeit separately... because readers have wanted it both ways. You can always find the sales results for EVERY vehicle and form your own competitive sets by using the All Vehicle Rankings posts.
RECOMMENDED READING
Small & Midsize Luxury Car Sales In America - April 2014 YTD
Small & Midsize Luxury Car Sales In America - May 2013 YTD
Small & Midsize Luxury Car Sales In America - March 2013
Small & Midsize Luxury Car Sales In America - April 2012
Top 15, X2, Best-Selling Luxury Vehicles In America - April 2013
U.S. Auto Sales Brand Rankings - April 2013
- Small And Midsize Luxury Car Sales In Canada - April 2014 Ytd
In each of the last five months Canadians have bought and leased fewer copies of the BMW 3-Series than in the same period one year earlier. Part of that decrease relates to the switch of coupe and convertible 3-Series to the 4-Series nameplate. But even...
- Small And Midsize Luxury Car Sales In America - April 2014 Ytd
U.S. sales of the Lexus IS have doubled on a year-over-year basis in each of the last six months, rising 110% in April 2014 and 119% through the first four months of 2014. Click Chart To ExpandLexus dealers are currently left to flog their IS wares...
- Small And Midsize Luxury Car Sales Figures In Canada - May 2013 Ytd
Acura Probably Won't Build A Yellow ILX Type-RAcura sold more ILX sedans in Canada in May 2013 than in any month in the model's brief history. The ILX, priced from $27,850, is certainly a premium-priced alternative in the minds of the thousands...
- Small And Midsize Luxury Car Sales Figures In America - May 2013 Ytd
For the seventh consecutive month, sales of the Infiniti M sedan lineup declined, year-over-year. Mercedes-Benz sells 10 E-Class sedans, coupes, convertibles, and wagons for every solitary Infiniti M sale in America. Even rare cars like the Jaguar XF...
- Luxury Car Sales In Canada - March 2013
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