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.
Canada Vehicle Sales Rankings By Model - February 2017 YTDCanada Car Sales By Model - February 2017 YTD
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 |
| 38 | 28 | 35.7% | 78 | 64 | 21.9% |
| 157 | 127 | 23.6% | 281 | 233 | 20.6% |
| 304 | 171 | 77.8% | 514 | 304 | 69.1% |
| 286 | 229 | 24.9% | 485 | 431 | 12.5% |
| 87 | 91 | -4.4% | 217 | 245 | -11.4% |
| 6 | 13 | -53.8% | 11 | 21 | -47.6% |
| 172 | 161 | 6.8% | 304 | 315 | -3.5% |
| 30 | 22 | 36.4% | 50 | 63 | -20.6% |
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Total | 1080 | 842 | 28.3% | 1940 | 1676 | 15.8% |
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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Canadian sales of passenger cars dipped 5% in January 2017 as cars claimed only 29% of all new vehicle sales.
The full-size volume brand cars that form slightly less than 3% of that car market posted a collective 3% year-over-year sales decline despite gains from GM's two entries – Buick LaCrosse and Chevrolet Impala – and the Chrysler 300, the top-selling car in the category last month. |
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The Hyundai Genesis' 98% drop to 1 sale comes as the vehicle formerly known as the Genesis moved to the new Genesis brand. That car, the Genesis G80, produced eight January sales. The launch of the Genesis brand in Canada will be a slow one.
Meanwhile, at Hyundai's Kia partner brand, only five Cadenzas were sold last month. Only 699 Cadenzas have been sold since the big sedan's 2013 Q2 launch, an average of 15 per month.
Remove the Hyundai Genesis from the equation and full-size volume brand car sales rose 3% in January 2017.
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 • February 2017 • December 2016 • January 2016
Two Canadian-built, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles full-size sedans were Canada's two best-selling full-size volume brand sedans in 2016.
Canadian sales of the top-selling Dodge Charger and second-ranked Chrysler 300 declined 17% in 2016, a far faster rate of decline than the segment at large. (Their competitors were down only 7%.) But with all but one challenger falling to some degree, as well, the FCA twins conquered the category.Nissan's Maxima was clearly the exception to the rule in 2016. Sales jumped 35% to 2297 units, fifth among volume brand large sedans, but the highest Maxima output since 2006.
Former stalwarts, the Chevrolet Impala and Ford Taurus, saw their sales fall 14% and 3%, respectively. Impala volume has declined in ten consecutive years.
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 • November 2016 • December 2015Midsize Car Sales In Canada - December & 2016 Year End
Canadian sales of full-size cars took a 6% dive in November 2016 despite big year-over-year gains from the Dodge Charger, the top-selling full-size volume brand car in Canada this year.
The Chevrolet Impala, however, topped the category in sales last month. Sliding 15%, the Impala ended November reporting 325 Canadian sales, eight more than the two second-ranked cars: Canadian-built FCA twins. |
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As Buick readies the new LaCrosse we would be included to expect Canadian sales improvements.
Yet given the degree to which consumers are veering away from this type of vehicle – LaCrosse sales, for instance, have fallen in eight of the last 11 years – a meaningful improvement may not be in the big Buick's near future.
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 • December 2016 • October 2016 • November 2015
Canadian sales of full-size cars plunged 42% in October 2016, a decline brought on by losses from almost every nameplate in the category.
Only the Ford Taurus, sales of which are down 13% this year, posted October gains. Ford Canada added 35 Taurus sales to October 2015's total one year later. |
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The sharpest loss was reported by the Hyundai Genesis, which is about to become the Genesis G80. The Dodge Charger topped the category with a paltry 186 sales. Dodge averaged 337 monthly sales in the first three-quarters of 2016.
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 • November 2016 • September 2016 • October 2015Midsize Car Sales In Canada - October 2016
