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- Small/entry Luxury Car Sales And Midsize Luxury Car Sales In Canada - 2010 Year End
For all the reasons not to buy a 2011 BMW 3-Series (ubiquity, fussy styling, cost) there are plenty of good reasons to sign on the dotted line at a BMW dealership and drive away in a 323i, 328i, 335i or any of the countless variations. 14,009 Canadian...
- Compact Luxury Car Sales And Small/entry Luxury Car Sales In Canada - September 2010
The Good Car Guy has often been exultant when describing sales of the BMW 3-Series. Globally, the 3-Series is a power. In the UK, it's not uncommon to see the 3-Series as a Best Seller. Not only did the 2010 BMW 3-Series land at #9 on the Canadian...
- Compact Luxury Car Sales And Small/entry Luxury Car Sales In America - August 2010
The civil sales war between Germany's BMW and Mercedes-Benz is so close that a typical windshield survey says the 3-Series and C-Class are similarly popular in America over the last few months. A completely atypical analysis says there was an extra...
- Midsize Luxury Car Sales And Large Luxury Car Sales In Canada - June 2010
Take a second to compare the Midsize Luxury Car Sales Graph below with the one from May. What's different? Keep looking, keep looking. Okay, you give up? I don't blame you for not being able to spot that Acura's RL isn't a part of the...
- Entry-luxury Car Sales In Canada - April 2010
What's new, BMW sold a whole bunch of 3-Series sedans, coupes, convertibles, and wagons in Canada in April. Wow, sounds an awful lot like March of 2010. In fact, it sounds an awful lot like something we'll be hearing in April of 3010. GoodCarBadCar.net...
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2009'S YEAR END COMPARISON OF ENTRY-LUXURY CAR SALES IN CANADA
The Good Car Guy is nothing like the frequently read BMW 3-Series boosters from mainstream publications. Sure, the BMW 3-Series is in The Good 12 v3.0, the highest honour for a car at GoodCarBadCar.net. Yes, the BMW M3 and BMW 2002 can be found in GoodCarBadCar.net's 100 Favourite Cars list. And about twice a month, in posts like this, the BMW 3-Series is exalted for its Marketplace domination while its competitors are... well, teased.
One would safely assume that hundreds, if not thousands of the 12,610 residents of Canada who purchased or leased a BMW 3-Series in 2009 did so for the wrong reasons. I'll admit that readily. They purchased or leased a BMW 3-Series because it's a symbol of attaining goals; of arriving. These people might not even understand the concept of sublime rear-wheel drive dynamics, or even that the BMW 3-Series is a rear-wheel drive car.
Regardless, 12,610 3-Series variations were sold in Canada last year, way more than any of its competitors. Way more than any other luxury car. Way more than the vast majority of mainstream cars, too. No two other cars in the Graph below can be combined to topple the 3-Series. If you were somehow able to merge Mercedes-Benz and Audi, then buy out Saab in order to put the C-Class, A4, and 9-3 on the same platform; their sales still wouldn't reach the levels of the BMW 3-Series.
The BMW's competition isn't far from reaching its levels of dynamic prowess. But they still seem quite a ways off from attaining its sales success. Check out the equivalent U.S. Graph here.
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- Small/entry Luxury Car Sales And Midsize Luxury Car Sales In Canada - 2010 Year End
For all the reasons not to buy a 2011 BMW 3-Series (ubiquity, fussy styling, cost) there are plenty of good reasons to sign on the dotted line at a BMW dealership and drive away in a 323i, 328i, 335i or any of the countless variations. 14,009 Canadian...
- Compact Luxury Car Sales And Small/entry Luxury Car Sales In Canada - September 2010
The Good Car Guy has often been exultant when describing sales of the BMW 3-Series. Globally, the 3-Series is a power. In the UK, it's not uncommon to see the 3-Series as a Best Seller. Not only did the 2010 BMW 3-Series land at #9 on the Canadian...
- Compact Luxury Car Sales And Small/entry Luxury Car Sales In America - August 2010
The civil sales war between Germany's BMW and Mercedes-Benz is so close that a typical windshield survey says the 3-Series and C-Class are similarly popular in America over the last few months. A completely atypical analysis says there was an extra...
- Midsize Luxury Car Sales And Large Luxury Car Sales In Canada - June 2010
Take a second to compare the Midsize Luxury Car Sales Graph below with the one from May. What's different? Keep looking, keep looking. Okay, you give up? I don't blame you for not being able to spot that Acura's RL isn't a part of the...
- Entry-luxury Car Sales In Canada - April 2010
What's new, BMW sold a whole bunch of 3-Series sedans, coupes, convertibles, and wagons in Canada in April. Wow, sounds an awful lot like March of 2010. In fact, it sounds an awful lot like something we'll be hearing in April of 3010. GoodCarBadCar.net...