Canadian sales of full-size SUVs jumped 16% in March 2017, a record-setting March for the industry. After sales of these same seven large SUVs decreased marginally through the first one-sixth of 2017, first-quarter volume ended up rising 5% because of strength in March, led by the Ford Expedition and GM's short-wheelbase large SUVs.
Combined, the Chevrolet Tahoe and GMC Yukon owned 39% of the market. Combined, the Tahoe, Yukon, and their long-wheelbase siblings owned 60% of the market. Ford's long-wheelbase Expedition's sales figures are included by Ford in the Expedition total.  |
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Nissan also reported a major increase in sales of the Armada, which reported an all-time annual high in Canadian sales last year and is expected to smash that record in 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 sport-utility vehicles any which way you like. Mobile users can now thumb across the table 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 • February 2017 • March 2016 SUV | March
2017 | March
2016 | %
Change | 2017
YTD | 2016
YTD | %
Change |
| 102 | 151 | -32.5% | 225 | 420 | -46.4% |
| 294 | 277 | 6.1% | 574 | 613 | -6.4% |
| 296 | 151 | 96.0% | 713 | 399 | 78.7% |
| 208 | 180 | 15.6% | 477 | 469 | 1.7% |
| 163 | 192 | -15.1% | 380 | 452 | -15.9% |
| 126 | 73 | 72.6% | 262 | 161 | 62.7% |
| 92 | 78 | 17.9% | 211 | 194 | 8.8% |
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Total | 1281 | 1102 | 16.2% | 2842 | 2708 | 4.9% |
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Canadian sales of full-size, volume brand SUVs jumped 50% in calendar year 2016. But matching that rapid rate of growth in the early part of 2017 has, at least through the end of February, proven impossible.
Canada Vehicle Sales Rankings By Model - February 2017 YTDCanada SUV/Crossover Sales By Model - February 2017 YTD
Despite Ford's clear-out of the outgoing Expedition as the automaker prepares to send the all-new fifth-generation Expedition to dealers – a clear-out that's resulted in a 68% year-over-year increase in 2017's first two months – the segment is down 3% this year, having grown by only four units in February.General Motors, the automaker that controls the category, is largely to blame. In January and February of 2016, GM Canada sold 1154 Suburbans, Tahoes, Yukons, and Yukon XLs, accounting for 72% of the segment's volume.  |
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But in the same period this year, the GM quartet tumbled 23% to 889 units as GM's market share slid to 57%. Here's how you know there's been a shift: the Nissan Armada is outselling the Chevrolet Suburban.
Of course, the Suburban represents just one-quarter of the GM SUVs in this segment and only one-sixth of GM's full-size SUV portfolio.
Moreover, GM's deliveries in the segment hinge largely upon fleet sales, which fluctuate wildly from one season to the next. It's possible that the segment has flatlined. It's also possible that January and February are responsible for a small portion of the Canadian auto industry's annual results, and these results mean very little.
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 sport-utility vehicles any which way you like. Mobile users can now thumb across the table 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 • January 2017 • February 2016 SUV | Feb.
2017 | Feb.
2016 | %
Change | 2017
YTD | 2016
YTD | %
Change |
| 69 | 123 | -43.9% | 123 | 269 | -54.3% |
| 172 | 208 | -17.3% | 280 | 336 | -16.7% |
| 218 | 137 | 59.1% | 417 | 248 | 68.1% |
| 160 | 152 | 5.3% | 269 | 289 | -6.9% |
| 137 | 131 | 4.6% | 217 | 260 | -16.5% |
| 74 | 61 | 21.3% | 136 | 88 | 54.5% |
| 54 | 68 | -20.6% | 119 | 116 | 2.6% |
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Total | 884 | 880 | 0.5% | 1561 | 1606 | -2.8% |
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January has traditionally been an exceptionally low-volume month for full-size SUVs in Canada. As a result, the fact that sales slid 7% – despite growth in the market at large – in January 2017 is not likely a sign that full-size SUV sales will fall 7% in calendar year 2017.
Canada SUV/Crossover Sales By Model - January 2017Canada Vehicle Sales Rankings By Model - January 2017
They may. But January is not an accurate predictor of any outcome. Only 4.5% of the full-size, volume brand, truck-based, body-on-frame SUVs sold in Canada in 2016 were sold in January, a period that accounts for 8.5% of the calendar.  |
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Regardless, after dominating the category throughout 2016, GM's quartet stumbled in January 2017 as Ford, Nissan, and Toyota produced meaningful improvements with the Expedition, Armada, and Sequoia, respectively.
Still, more than half the market went GM's way, but Chevrolet/GMC full-size SUV volume slid 35%.
In 2016, GM owned 68% of the category. In January 2016, specifically, GM Canada owned 74% of the category.
The top-selling Ford Expedition's 199 total January 2017 sales represented a 79% year-over-year increase.
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 sport-utility vehicles any which way you like. Mobile users can now thumb across the table 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 • February 2017 • December 2016 • January 2016 SUV | Jan.
2017 | Jan.
2016 | %
Change | 2017
YTD | 2016
YTD | %
Change |
| 54 | 146 | -63.0% | 54 | 146 | -63.0% |
| 108 | 128 | -15.6% | 108 | 128 | -15.6% |
| 199 | 111 | 79.3% | 199 | 111 | 79.3% |
| 109 | 137 | -20.4% | 109 | 137 | -20.4% |
| 80 | 129 | -38.0% | 80 | 129 | -38.0% |
| 62 | 27 | 130% | 62 | 27 | 130% |
| 65 | 48 | 35.4% | 65 | 48 | 35.4% |
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Total | 677 | 726 | -6.7% | 677 | 726 | -6.7% |
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The Ford Expedition, sales of which include its elongated Max edition, was the top-selling full-size SUV nameplate in Canada in the 2016 calendar year.
But the figures couldn't be much more deceiving.
Canada Vehicle Sales Rankings By Model - 2016 Year EndCanada SUV/Crossover Sales By Model - 2016 Year End
General Motors splits sales of its volume brand full-size SUVs into four parts. Even taking one brand, Chevrolet, as the prime Ford competitor, the Tahoe and Suburban – equivalent to the Expedition and Expedition Max – outsold the Ford by a 40% margin. In all, General Motors owned 68% of the category in 2016. |
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GM also benefits from selling very popular Cadillac versions of the company's full-size SUV. While the Ford Expedition's Lincoln Navigator sibling produced 557 sales in Canada in 2016, Cadillac sold 2835 Escalades and Escalade ESVs.
Regardless, it was a productive year for every entrant in the field. Sales in the category exploded across the board, helped along in a small part by gains at Toyota and Nissan, where there's a new Armada, but largely by a huge uptick at General Motors and Ford.
They remain relatively rare vehicles, however. Combined, this group of seven full-size SUVs produced 15,823 total sales, a figure lower than the annual total of 12 different SUVs/crossovers in Canada. South of the border, on the other hand, the Tahoe – on its own – was America's 24th-best-selling SUV/crossover in 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 sport-utility vehicles any which way you like. Mobile users can now thumb across the table 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 • January 2017 • November 2016 • December 2015 SUV | Dec.
2016 | Dec.
2015 | %
Change | 2016 | 2015 | %
Change |
| 200 | 135 | 48.1% | 2173 | 1354 | 60.5% |
| 138 | 248 | -44.4% | 3062 | 2364 | 29.5% |
| 453 | 261 | 73.6% | 3729 | 2282 | 63.4% |
| 114 | 141 | -19.1% | 2842 | 1711 | 66.1% |
| 186 | 183 | 1.6% | 2604 | 1579 | 64.9% |
| 85 | 47 | 80.9% | 716 | 634 | 12.9% |
| 51 | 67 | -23.9% | 697 | 663 | 5.1% |
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Total | 1227 | 1082 | 13.4% | 15,823 | 10,587 | 49.5% |
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During a year in which Ford Canada was averaging 257 Expedition sales per month, the fourth-quarter began with an October result of 713 units, equal to 42% market share in the Expedition's full-size volume brand SUV segment.
Canada Vehicle Sales Rankings By Model - October 2016 YTDCanada SUV/Crossover Sales By Model - October 2016 YTD
GM continued as the segment dominator thanks to big increases from the GMC duo: Yukon and Yukon XL. But the Expedition's huge uptick was a drag on GM's market share, which tumbled from 71% in October 2015 to 50% in October 2016. |
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Outliers from Nissan and Toyota produce a modest portion of the segment's sales. Through the first ten months of 2016, only 9% of the segment's sales are generated by the Armada and Sequoia.
Through that ten-month period, Canadian consumers, businesses, governments, and daily rental companies have already taken possession of more full-size SUVs than in all of calendar year 2015.
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 sport-utility vehicles any which way you like. Mobile users can now thumb across the table 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 • November 2016 • September 2016 • October 2015 SUV | October
2016 | October
2015 | %
Change | 2016
YTD | 2015
YTD | %
Change |
| 147 | 148 | -0.7% | 1517 | 1074 | 41.2% |
| 196 | 191 | 2.6% | 2277 | 1957 | 16.4% |
| 713 | 191 | 273% | 3029 | 1867 | 62.2% |
| 257 | 193 | 33.2% | 2111 | 1413 | 49.4% |
| 263 | 219 | 20.1% | 1827 | 1278 | 43.0% |
| 91 | 51 | 78.4% | 522 | 547 | -4.6% |
| 50 | 63 | -20.6% | 602 | 529 | 13.8% |
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Total | 1717 | 1056 | 62.6% | 11,885 | 8665 | 37.2% |
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