Top 30 Best-Selling Luxury Vehicles In Canada - June 2011

Leading the premium pack as usual, the BMW 3-Series is the obvious story in June 2011's edition of the Top 30 Best-Selling Luxury Vehicles In Canada. The eye-catching automobile, however, isn't the #1-ranked 3-Series, it's the 6th-ranked BMW X1, a tall-but-small wagon/crossover/SAV/SUV rival for the Mercedes-Benz GLK350, Audi Q5, and BMW's own X3. 

The X1 out-sold the X3 in Canada in June by a scant 48 units, a sign that's it's the newer, more unique package but also that it's the less expensive vehicle in a market that loves the less expensive vehicle. Seeing an X1 on the road is like seeing an awkward-looking 3-Series Touring on stilts, for sure, but the $38,500 xDrive28i is a visual attention grabber. The X3, by the way, is a recently reengineered model and sales were up a not surprising 32% in June 2011. 

Oh, and one more thing. Although undoubtedly affected by supply issues tracing back to March's disasters in Japan, the Lexus RX - typically the best-selling utility vehicle in the U.S. and Canada - was beaten by the X1 last month, too. In May the Lexus RX was tied for fourth in this group; the X1 was in 14th.

As for the rundown of Canada's 30 best-selling luxury products, 16 are passenger cars in the traditional sense. Fully seven members of the Top 10 are utility vehicles of some sort. 16 of the vehicles in the table below wear German badges. More than half of the members in the Top 30 suffered declining sales compared with June 2010, this in a market which grew 6.6%. 

Rank	Luxury Vehicle	Status	June 2011	June 2010	Year-To-Date
#1	BMW 3-Series	↔	1618	1554	5972
#2	Mercedes-Benz C-Class	↔	795	774	4621
#3	Mercedes-Benz GLK	↔	603	720	2694
#4	Audi A4	↑	498	471	3012
#5	Acura MDX	↑	480	515	2404
#6	BMW X1	↑	456	-----	859
#7	Lexus RX	↓	434	763	3350
#8	BMW X3	↓	408	310	2264
#9	Audi Q5	↑	391	247	2395
#10	BMW X5	↑	382	386	1899
T11	Mercedes-Benz B-Class	↓	371	284	1877
T11	Cadillac SRX	↑	371	315	1622
#13	Lincoln MKX	↑	357	420	2054
#14	Mercedes-Benz E & CLS-Class	↓	351	400	1871
#15	Infiniti G	↑	331	485	1758
#16	Cadillac CTS	↓	318	275	1764
#17	Mercedes-Benz M-Class	↓	269	283	1633
#18	BMW 1-Series	↑	225	291	942
#19	Lincoln MKZ	↑	210	28	879
#20	Acura RDX	↔	206	318	1229
#21	Lexus IS	↑	203	217	1048
#22	Acura TL	↓	198	228	1293
#23	Audi A5	↑	189	202	1157
#24	BMW 5-Series	↓	188	219	1485
#25	Acura CSX	↔	169	187	907
#26	Volkswagen Touareg	↑	164	47	897
#27	Infiniti EX	↑	163	174	679
#28	Volvo S60	↓	162	-----	749
#29	Lexus ES	↑	160	302	941
#30	Mercedes-Benz G & GL-Class	↑	151	119	806

Source: Manufacturers And Automotive News Data Center

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