Small And Midsize Luxury Car Sales In America - November 2016 YTD

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Though its face is hardly fresh, under the skin, the 2017 Audi A4 is very much a new car, and that newness is paying off in the United States luxury sector where premium cars are rapidly losing market share.

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U.S. Vehicle Sales Rankings By Model - November 2016 YTD
U.S. Car Sales Rankings By Model - November 2016 YTD

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Cohorts from Acura, BMW, Cadillac, and Infiniti tumbled in November 2016, but Audi A4 sales jumped 26% to 3414 units, the fifth consecutive monthly improvement for the top-selling Audi car.

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Four out of every ten cars sold by Audi's U.S. dealers in November were A4s. U.S. sales of the smaller A3 are down 13% so far this year. Jointly, the larger Audi A6 and A7 are down 18% through 2016's first eleven months. 

Year-to-date, the Mercedes-Benz C-Class is America's top-selling premium brand car. Combined, the BMW 3-Series and 4-Series – the latter a 3-Series offshoot – have outsold the C-Class by a wide 26,025-unit margin. 

You can click any model name in the tables below to find historical monthly and yearly U.S. auto sales data. You can also select a make and model at GCBC's Sales Stats page. These tables are sortable, so you can rank luxury brand cars any which way you like. Mobile users can now thumb across tables for full-width access. Suggestions on how GCBC should break down segments can be passed on through the Contact page.

Click Column Headers To Sort • December 2016 • October 2016 • November 2015

Small/Entry  Luxury Car	Nov. 2016	Nov. 2015	% Change	2016 YTD	2015 YTD	% Change
Acura ILX *	772	1353	-42.9%	13,518	16,571	-18.4%
Acura TLX	2281	2987	-23.6%	33,535	43,572	-23.0%
Acura TSX	---	---	---	---	2	-100%
Alfa Romeo Giulia	---	---	---	7	---	---
Audi A3	2063	3028	-31.9%	28,634	32,732	-12.5%
Audi A4  ^	3414	2719	25.6%	32,667	28,405	15.0%
Audi A5 *	482	1277	-62.3%	7763	11,934	-35.0%
BMW 2-Series *	955	1147	-16.7%	14,434	10,877	32.7%
BMW 3-Series	5411	8433	-35.8%	63,718	89,278	-28.6%
BMW 4-Series	3240	3424	-5.4%	32,129	40,468	-20.6%
BMW i3	629	723	-13.0%	6834	9602	-28.8%
Cadillac ATS	1490	2055	-27.5%	19,213	23,422	-18.0%
Infiniti Q40	---	38	-100%	59	8574	-99.3%
Infiniti Q50	3361	3782	-11.1%	38,213	39,196	-2.5%
Infiniti Q60 *	814	206	295%	2952	3659	-19.3%
Jaguar XE	951	---	---	5494	---	---
Lexus CT200h	550	984	-44.1%	7935	13,193	-39.9%
Lexus IS	3571	3063	16.6%	32,857	41,402	-20.6%
Lexus RC	881	1282	-31.3%	10,123	13,073	-22.6%
Mercedes-Benz B-Class *	52	41	26.8%	578	1809	-68.0%
Mercedes-Benz C-Class	7261	7239	0.3%	69,822	79,057	-11.7%
Mercedes-Benz CLA-Class	2070	2611	-20.7%	23,916	27,731	-13.8%
Volvo S60	1371	1328	3.2%	12,696	15,403	-17.6%
Volvo S60 Cross Country	42	47	-10.6%	529	183	189%
Volvo V60	292	328	-11.0%	3074	4066	-24.4%
Volvo V60 Cross Country	215	222	-3.2%	2485	2567	-3.2%
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Total	42,168	48,317	-12.7%	463,185	556,776	-16.8%

Midsize Luxury Car	Nov. 2016	Nov. 2015	% Change	2016 YTD	2015 YTD	% Change
Acura RLX	140	120	16.7%	1286	2036	-36.8%
Acura TL	---	1	-100%	---	88	-100%
Audi A6	1532	1582	-3.2%	16,670	20,394	-18.3%
Audi A7	576	636	-9.4%	5747	6880	-16.5%
BMW 5-Series	1126	4646	-75.8%	30,293	41,177	-26.4%
Cadillac CT6	1169	---	---	7876	---	---
Cadillac CTS	1042	1224	-14.9%	14,214	17,044	-16.6%
Cadillac XTS	2653	1976	34.3%	19,042	20,042	-5.0%
Genesis G80	1005	---	---	4812	---	---
Hyundai Equus	26	198	-86.9%	1353	2131	-36.5%
Infiniti Q70	346	677	-48.9%	5292	7663	-30.9%
Jaguar XF	361	454	-20.5%	6179	5374	15.0%
Kia K900	52	228	-77.2%	754	2362	-68.1%
Lexus ES	4097	4725	-13.3%	52,060	57,113	-8.8%
Lexus GS	1201	2174	-44.8%	13,553	19,694	-31.2%
Lincoln Continental	1419	---	---	3416	---	---
Lincoln MKS	89	520	-82.9%	4736	6406	-26.1%
Lincoln MKZ	2541	2325	9.3%	27,884	27,694	0.7%
Maserati Ghibli	733	662	10.7%	6353	7258	-12.5%
Mercedes-Benz E-Class & CLS-Class	4642	5205	-10.8%	46,045	50,308	-8.5%
Volvo S80	52	449	-88.4%	631	1711	-63.1%
Volvo S90	670	---	---	1629	---	---
Volvo XC70 *	390	262	48.9%	5193	4686	10.8%
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Total	25,862	28,064	-7.8%	275,018	300,061	-8.3%

Source: Automakers & ANDC
* vehicle also displayed in another GCBC segment breakdown
^ A4 includes Allroad, without which A4 sales were up 30% to 3143 in November; up 18.7% to 30,678 YTD.
Mercedes-Benz USA, not GCBC, intermittently chooses to combine E-Class & CLS-Class sales.
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. 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... because readers have wanted it both ways. Hyundai USA, not GoodCarBadCar, chooses to combine sales figures for the Genesis sedan and Genesis Coupe, forcing us to include the Genesis with volume-brand cars on pricing grounds before we even get to the "brand status" issue. The K900, Equus, and XTS are here not because of their size but because of their price points, their lack of direct comparability with the Mercedes-Benz S-Class. 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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