Large Car Sales In Canada - February 2017

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Don't be fooled into believing Canada's 16% rise in full-size volume brand cars through the first two months of 2017 is a sign that the car market has legs. 

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Canada Vehicle Sales Rankings By Model - February 2017 YTD
Canada Car Sales By Model - February 2017 YTD

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These are exceedingly low-volume cars. Even collectively, this fleet-friendly Chrysler 300/Dodge Charger-led category has produced only 1940 sales so far this year. Sure, that's 16%, or 264 units, more than the segment managed one year ago. But it's 9% lower than the total achieved by the same cars during the first two months of 2015, and it's an inconsequential number, regardless. 

1940 sales, in two months? That's what the Honda Civic, on its own, managed over the last two weeks. 

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Well, the Honda Civic is Canada's best-selling car, an affordable compact, hardly comparable to these semi-premium full-size cars. But what about the Mercedes-Benz C-Class? 

1708 C-Classes have been sold already this year. 

Times have changed. Get used to it.

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

Click Column Headers To Sort • January 2017 • February 2016

Large Car	Feb. 2017	Feb. 2016	% Change	2017 YTD	2016 YTD	% Change
Buick LaCrosse	38	28	35.7%	78	64	21.9%
Chevrolet Impala	157	127	23.6%	281	233	20.6%
Chrysler 300	304	171	77.8%	514	304	69.1%
Dodge Charger	286	229	24.9%	485	431	12.5%
Ford Taurus	87	91	-4.4%	217	245	-11.4%
Kia Cadenza	6	13	-53.8%	11	21	-47.6%
Nissan Maxima	172	161	6.8%	304	315	-3.5%
Toyota Avalon	30	22	36.4%	50	63	-20.6%
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Total	1080	842	28.3%	1940	1676	15.8%

Source: Automakers & Global Automakers Of Canada
* Genesis refers only to the sedan, not the coupe. For Canadian purposes - Hyundai USA doesn't yet breakdown sales figures for the sedan and much less costly coupe - the Genesis will now be shown with both these volume brands, with which Hyundai is a direct competitor, and midsize luxury cars, with which the Genesis competes.
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. 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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Midsize Car Sales In Canada - February 2017

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