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Late last month GoodCarBadCar ran a couple of posts which highlighted the volume differences between Lexus, Acura, and Infiniti as well as Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and Audi. The chart below throws all the premium brands into one pot for a U.S. May 2012 market share comparison.
The year-over-year changes for brands like Lexus, Acura, and Infiniti were expected to be grand. Lexus gained nearly five percentage points; Acura nearly three; Infiniti more than two. There were very few Japanese luxury cars on U.S. dealer lots in May of last year as a result of the March 11 TÅhoku quake. Year-over-year volume at Lexus, Acura, and Infiniti had fallen 45%, 24%, and 21%, respectively. That these three brands would sell more cars in May 2012 and own a larger portion of the U.S. premium car market was basically automatic.
Perhaps a more appropriate market share comparison would stand the numbers from the chart below up against figures from April 2012. Lexus increased its share from 14.2% to 15.7%. Acura moved from 9.9% to 10.7%. Infiniti posted a two percentage point increase, rising from 5.8% to 7.8%. Month-to-month market share declines were reported by Audi, BMW, Cadillac, Jaguar, Land Rover, Mercedes-Benz, and Porsche.
Historical monthly and yearly sales figures for the vehicles sold by all these brands can be accessed through the dropdown menu at the top right of this page or at GoodCarBadCar's Sales Stats home. Of the 136,349 sales represented by the pie slices in the chart below, 7.8% were Lexus RX crossovers. Another 9.1% were 3-Series and 5-Series BMWs. For the first time since December, the RX was America's best-selling premium vehicle.
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U.S. Luxury Auto Brand Market Share - May 2012
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The year-over-year changes for brands like Lexus, Acura, and Infiniti were expected to be grand. Lexus gained nearly five percentage points; Acura nearly three; Infiniti more than two. There were very few Japanese luxury cars on U.S. dealer lots in May of last year as a result of the March 11 TÅhoku quake. Year-over-year volume at Lexus, Acura, and Infiniti had fallen 45%, 24%, and 21%, respectively. That these three brands would sell more cars in May 2012 and own a larger portion of the U.S. premium car market was basically automatic.
Perhaps a more appropriate market share comparison would stand the numbers from the chart below up against figures from April 2012. Lexus increased its share from 14.2% to 15.7%. Acura moved from 9.9% to 10.7%. Infiniti posted a two percentage point increase, rising from 5.8% to 7.8%. Month-to-month market share declines were reported by Audi, BMW, Cadillac, Jaguar, Land Rover, Mercedes-Benz, and Porsche.
Historical monthly and yearly sales figures for the vehicles sold by all these brands can be accessed through the dropdown menu at the top right of this page or at GoodCarBadCar's Sales Stats home. Of the 136,349 sales represented by the pie slices in the chart below, 7.8% were Lexus RX crossovers. Another 9.1% were 3-Series and 5-Series BMWs. For the first time since December, the RX was America's best-selling premium vehicle.
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Not including a variety of high-priced machines which are forced to wear plebeian badges, cars like the Hyundai Equus and GMC Yukon Denali Hybrid, Americans acquired 136,000 luxury vehicles in March 2012. 45.9% of those 136,000 sales went the way...
- Luxury Auto Brand Market Share In America - February 2012
BMW was America's best-selling premium brand in February 2012, thereby grabbing 18.2% of the premium brand market. Mercedes-Benz's 16.2% ranked second. Lexus, in third, owned 14.3% of all premium brand sales. Compared with January, BMW and...
- Luxury Auto Brand Market Share In America - January 2012
Ranked 20th through 24th in U.S. auto sales volume, Audi, Cadillac, Acura, Infiniti, and Lincoln collectively sold 38,576 new vehicles in January 2012. These brands were not America's favourite luxury auto brands, however, as Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and...
- Luxury Auto Brand Market Share In Canada - September 2011
Between the three of them, Canada's trio of best-selling luxury brands accounted for 54.4% of all premium vehicle sales in September 2011. Audi, with 12.9% of the market, was up by half a percentage point. BMW, at 21.9%, was up more than a full percentage...