Canada's Best-Selling Cars, Trucks & SUVs In 2011 - January Through July

On Monday GoodCarBadCar.net published year-to-date rankings of America's best-selling cars, trucks, and utility vehicles. Today it's Canada's turn, and boy things sure are different north of the 49th parallel. 

Instead of ranking eighth with a 9.7% year-over-year decline, the Honda Civic is Canada's best-selling car through seven months with a 5.2% drop. Only in March and April was the Civic Canada's most popular, but its lead in those months was substantial enough to keep the surging Hyundai Elantra at bay.

Canada's best-selling SUV is the Ford Escape; as it has been in every single month of 2011 save for April, when the Dodge Journey roared into top spot. Try pairing the GMC Terrain and fourth-ranked Chevrolet Equinox and General Motors finds itself in second spot among utility vehicles.

The Cadillac Escalade EXT Is Canada's 16th-Best-Selling Truck

Don't allow yourself to believe that the Ford F-Series wouldn't be Canada's best-selling truck if only GM would just market the GMC Sierra and Chevrolet Silverado twins as one truck. All of GM's pickups - that's the Sierra, Silverado, Avalanche, Colorado, Canyon, and Escalade EXT - combined for 53,973 sales from January to July. 

Yup, the F-Series out-sold the whole GM truck fleet; not just the Sierra; not just the Sierra and Silverado. Everything. All them there GM pickup trucks. The F-Series is down 1.1% compared with the first seven months of 2010.

The 25 best-selling cars, 20 best-selling SUVs, and 16 best-selling trucks (that's all the trucks there are) in Canada are in the tables below. Don't forget about minivans, though. The Dodge Grand Caravan is Canada's third-ranked vehicle overall.

                 TOP 25 BEST-SELLING CARS IN CANADA                  

Rank	Car	January-July 2011	% Change
#1	Honda Civic	29,974	-5.2
#2	Hyundai Elantra	29,051	+65.7
#3	Mazda 3	22,069	-28.9
#4	Chevrolet Cruze/Cobalt	22,055	+50.3
#5	Toyota Corolla	21,574	-9.2
#6	Volkswagen Jetta	16,391	+145.7
#7	Ford Focus	15,409	+6.1
#8	Hyundai Accent	13,638	-18.6
#9	Ford Fusion	12,619	-2.2
#10	Hyundai Sonata	10,429	+24.3
#11	Nissan Versa	9704	-10.3
#12	Kia Forte	9311	+17.5
#13	Nissan Sentra	9193	-4.0
#14	Nissan Altima	8959	+14.1
#15	Ford Fiesta	8435	+1998.3
#16	Volkswagen Golf	8306	-30.8
#17	Toyota Matrix	8168	-32.4
#18	BMW 3-Series	6915	-5.1
#19	Toyota Venza	6852	-7.3
#20	Kia Soul	6851	+11.4
#21	Chevrolet Malibu	6776	-16.7
#22	Chevrolet Impala	6118	-23.4
#23	Toyota Camry	5968	-35.4
#24	Mazda 2	5888	+3557.1
#25	Honda Accord	5431	-33.6

                 TOP 20 BEST-SELLING SUVs IN CANADA

Rank	SUV	January-July 2011	% Change
#1	Ford Escape	27,506	+3.1
#2	Dodge Journey	19,192	+50.0
#3	Hyundai Santa Fe	15,591	-1.1
#4	Chevrolet Equinox	13,936	+25.5
#5	Honda CR-V	13,666	-10.4
#6	Toyota RAV4	12,840	-6.9
#7	Jeep Wrangler	10,183	+33.0
#8	Hyundai Tucson	9638	+13.3
#9	Ford Edge	9445	+1.3
#10	Kia Sorento	8610	+69.7
#11	GMC Terrain	7379	+26.7
#12	Nissan Rogue	6909	-11.1
#13	Jeep Grand Cherokee	5959	+135.3
#14	Ford Explorer	5502	+96.0
#15	Jeep Patriot	5043	-20.2
#16	Subaru Forester	4673	-7.9
#17	Kia Sportage	4422	+129.1
#18	Mitsubishi RVR	4396	-----
#19	Jeep Compass	4139	+37.5
#20	Lexus RX	3761	-14.2

                 TOP 16 BEST-SELLING TRUCKS IN CANADA

Rank	Truck	January-July 2011	% Change
#1	Ford F-Series	55,390	-1.1
#2	Dodge Ram	36,944	+14.8
#3	GMC Sierra	26,043	-2.2
#4	Chevrolet Silverado	22,729	-5.7
#5	Ford Ranger	9546	-27.7
#6	Toyota Tacoma	4289	-18.8
#7	Toyota Tundra	3964	-16.1
#8	Chevrolet Avalanche	2056	-3.0
#9	Chevrolet Colorado	1613	-33.8
#10	Nissan Frontier	1416	+37.7
#11	GMC Canyon	1415	-31.8
#12	Nissan Titan	1376	+45.3
#13	Dodge Dakota	1263	+10.8
#14	Honda Ridgeline	831	-54.3
#15	Mazda B-Series	661	-45.0
#16	Cadillac Escalade EXT	117	-7.1

Source: Automakers & ANDC

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