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The Subaru Forester surged forward from 686 sales in October 2010 to nearly overtake the Honda CR-V with 955 November sales. There were 25 selling days in November: Subaru sold 38 Foresters per day. In October, there were 25 selling days, as well. Subaru sold 27 Foresters per day. With somewhere around 90 Subaru dealers in Canada, each dealer was able to sell about 10 Foresters in November, on average, a pleasing two or three car jump from October levels. Toyota has nearly that many dealers in Ontario alone. Of course, Toyota dealers have the privilege of selling popular vehicles other than the RAV4 - the Highlander being a good example - while Subaru dealers must fend for themselves off the Outback, Legacy, Impreza, and... ahem... Tribeca. But it's interesting to see what Subaru Canada can do with a relative handful of dealers. Of course, Mitsubishi dealers were able to sell about 22 Outlanders each, on average, in November 2010. Charging headlong into a North American trend which says the Outlander shouldn't be successful, Mitsubishi Canada found 872 buyers in November. The attractive Outlander found just 888 buyers in the United States last month, that's in a market which is more than seven times the size of Canada's. The 2011 Mitsubishi Outlander starts at $25,498 in Canada and $21,995 in the USA. That Canadian base price is $903 more than the starting MSRP of the 2011 Toyota RAV4. Perhaps worthy of remembering is the tremendously successful Hyundai Santa Fe, another Asian vehicle which normally goes unmentioned in this group of Japanese best-selling utility vehicles. Hyundai sold 2231 Santa Fes in November. (Kia sold 1236 Sorentos.) The 2011 Hyundai Santa Fe has a base price of $22,999. | Rank | SUV/Crossover | Status | October 2010 | % Change |
| #1 | Toyota RAV4 | ↔ | 1535 | -27.1 |
| #2 | Honda CR-V | ↔ | 1041 | -27.3 |
| #3 | Subaru Forester | ↑ | 955 | +32.6 |
| #4 | Mitsubishi Outlander | ↔ | 872 | +71.3 |
| #5 | Nissan Rogue | ↓ | 783 | +25.3 |
| #6 | Lexus RX | ↔ | 526 | -30 |
| #7 | Toyota Highlander | ↑ | 458 | +18.7 |
| #8 | Honda Pilot | ↑ | 434 | +7.2 |
| #9 | Nissan Juke | ↑ | 411 | ----- |
| #10 | Nissan Murano | ↔ | 409 | +71.1 |
Source: Automakers & The Automotive News Data CenterRelated From GoodCarBadCar.netTop 10 Best-Selling Japanese SUVs In Canada - October 2010Top 10 Best-Selling European SUVs In Canada - November 2010Top 10 Best-Selling American SUVs In Canada - November 2010Top 10 Best-Selling SUVs In Canada - November 2010
As Toyota car sales fell by 3615 units from November 2009 to November 2010, it was clear without even checking that the Toyota Camry was not going to be on this list of Canada's best-selling Japanese cars. The Camry has been absorbing the brunt of the criticism for lost Toyota car sales of late, but every Toyota model except the Avalon (up from 21 to 33 sales in November) suffered a serious sales decline last month. Camry sales were down an astonishing 52% in November 2010 to 615 sales, five more than the Mercedes-Benz C-Class; 257 fewer than the Mitsubishi Outlander. Does The Good Car Guy get a kick out of hammering the Toyota Camry? Yes, of course. For one thing, GoodCarBadCar.net is a fan of underdogs - the Camry ain't one of those - and also, the Camry is boring. Very boring.How to explain the Mazda 3's steadily declining sales? The 3 isn't generally labelled as a boring car, but Canadians are quite a bit less in love with the 3 than they were in the recent past. Besides November's 26.6% drop, October was down 20% and September was down 12%. No longer even close to being in contention for Canada's best-selling car title, the Mazda 3 is up just 2.3% on the year, albeit in a car market that's down 3.6%. Year-to-date, the Mazda 3 remains 8507 sales ahead of the Toyota Corolla, a car which has posted a 25.7% drop through the end of November. Even Honda Civic sales are down in 2010 - the Civic was simply so lofty in the past that falling sales in the latter part of its lifecycle are nothing to worry about.Oh, but you wanted good news? Honda and Toyota and Mazda and Nissan's Asian competitors from Korea aren't struggling. Passenger car sales at Hyundai were up 6.4% in November. Year-to-date Kia passenger car sales are up 17.5%. | Rank | Car | Status | October 2010 | % Change |
| #1 | Honda Civic | ↔ | 4203 | +6.8 |
| #2 | Toyota Corolla | ↔ | 2801 | -25.9 |
| #3 | Mazda 3 | ↔ | 2654 | -26.6 |
| #4 | Honda Fit | ↑ | 1557 | +249.1 |
| #5 | Toyota Matrix | ↓ | 1555 | -18.1 |
| #6 | Honda Accord | ↓ | 1162 | +22.8 |
| #7 | Nissan Altima | ↓ | 1095 | +9.8 |
| #8 | Toyota Venza | ↔ | 902 | -40.3 |
| #9 | Nissan Sentra | ↓ | 792 | -1.1 |
| #10 | Subaru Impreza | ↑ | 742 | -3.8 |
Source: Automakers & The Automotive News Data CenterRelated From GoodCarBadCar.netTop 10 Best-Selling Japanese Cars In Canada - October 2010Top 10 Best-Selling European Cars In Canada - November 2010Top 10 Best-Selling American Cars In Canada - November 2010Top 10 Best-Selling Cars In Canada - November 2010Top 10 Best-Selling Japanese SUVs In Canada - November 2010
It's right and proper that you would form two conclusions after looking through the list below of Canada's Top 10 Best-Selling American SUVs. First, the Detroit Three are selling a lot more of their most popular SUVs and crossovers this year than they did last. Average year-over-year gains in the month of November were 56.8% among the utility vehicles in the list below, a figure which you'll see is not all that exaggerated by the 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee's huge jump - others are doing rather well, too.Second, an awful lot of the vehicles in the group below aren't just best-selling as American vehicles but as overall vehicles, regardless of their national orientation. 60% of Canada's best-selling American utility vehicles were on November's overall best-selling SUVs list.While you're considering interesting facts, consider the Canadian content of this list. The 2011 Ford Edge, 2011 Lincoln MKX, 2011 Chevrolet Equinox, and 2011 GMC Terrain are all built in southern Ontario. Many other big sellers are built in Canada, as well, a theme The Good Car Guy took up in this Sympatico Autos gallery. | Rank | SUV/Crossover | Status | October 2010 | % Change |
| #1 | Ford Escape | ↔ | 2996 | +26.1 |
| #2 | Dodge Journey | ↔ | 2146 | +30.2 |
| #3 | Chevrolet Equinox | ↔ | 1885 | +86.1 |
| #4 | Ford Edge | ↔ | 1389 | +42.3 |
| #5 | Jeep Grand Cherokee | ↔ | 984 | +120.6 |
| #6 | Jeep Patriot | ↑ | 975 | +68.4 |
| #7 | GMC Terrain | ↓ | 921 | +29.5 |
| #8 | Jeep Wrangler | ↔ | 646 | +41 |
| #9 | Chevrolet Traverse | ↑ | 504 | -2.9 |
| #10 | Lincoln MKX | ↓ | 473 | +126.3 |
Source: Automakers & The Automotive News Data CenterRelated From GoodCarBadCar.netTop 10 Best-Selling American SUVs In Canada - October 2010Top 10 Best-Selling European SUVs In Canada - November 2010Top 10 Best-Selling Japanese SUVs In Canada - November 2010Top 10 Best-Selling SUVs In Canada - November 2010Top 10 Best-Selling American Cars In Canada - November 2010
Overall Ford sales were up 15.7% in November but Ford car sales in Canada were up just 1.3%.... until you include the Fiesta. There's nothing like an additional nameplate to fire sales forward, and with the Fiesta's 977 extra sales, Ford car sales in Canada were up 30%. 40% of Canada's best-selling American cars are Blue Oval vehicles, but it's worth noting that only 25% of all Ford sales in Canada last month were cars. (Just 17.4% of Lincoln sales were cars.) It's hard to ignore the Fiesta's impact on the marketplace, particularly considering the prices at which Ford has been selling the Fiesta, but it's hard to call it an outright hit in a month when Honda dealers scurried about to sell 1557 Fits, a 249% improvement over November 2009.Moreover, a slightly newer, somewhat larger American small car competitor has arisen as a darling of the Canadian car market. Sales of the 2011 Chevrolet Cruze went from 235 in October to 1308 in November. Yep, that means the Cobalt is still out-selling the Cruze, but that's only because Canadians love cheap cars.Just the one Chrysler product? Well, you're obviously not expecting any Jeeps. And the 2011 Fiat 500 isn't here yet. So that leaves the puketastic Chrysler Sebring and Dodge Avenger, the not-so-great Dodge Caliber, the defunct Chrysler PT Cruiser, Dodge's Viper and Challenger, and the Chrysler 300/Dodge Charger fraternal twins. But as you should've read already, the words "Chrysler" and "cars" are nigh on mutually exclusive terms these days. Thus, Chrysler's 249 sales of the big 300 sedan sneak the Fiat-run company onto the list of Canada's Top 10 Best-Selling American Cars. Changes are afoot: model year 2011 features new engines and new interiors in many Chrysler products. | Rank | Car | Status | October 2010 | % Change |
| #1 | Chevrolet Cobalt/Cruze | ↔ | 3168 | +251.2 |
| #2 | Ford Focus | ↔ | 1629 | -0.1 |
| #3 | Ford Fusion | ↔ | 1168 | -11 |
| #4 | Ford Fiesta | ↑ | 977 | ----- |
| #5 | Chevrolet Malibu | ↓ | 866 | -19.1 |
| #6 | Chevrolet Aveo | ↑ | 597 | +84.3 |
| #7 | Chevrolet Impala | ↑ | 548 | -54.7 |
| #8 | Buick LaCrosse | ↑ | 368 | +125.8 |
| #9 | Chrysler 300 | ↑ | 249 | +9.2 |
| #10 | Ford Mustang | ↑ | 248 | +55 |
Source: Automakers & The Automotive News Data CenterRelated From GoodCarBadCar.netTop 10 Best-Selling American Cars In Canada - October 2010Top 10 Best-Selling European Cars In Canada - November 2010Top 10 Best-Selling Japanese Cars In Canada - November 2010Top 10 Best-Selling Cars In Canada - November 2010Top 10 Best-Selling American SUVs In Canada - November 2010
Red indicates a downward trend. Sales of the Volkswagen Tiguan and Touareg, BMW X5 and X3, and Audi Q5 were all lower in November 2010 than they were in November 2009. But don't take more information from the red front than y'ought to. Sales of the two BMWs are up through the first eleven months of 2010. Audi Q5 sales are up about 63% in 2010. And Volkswagen's SUV duo has posted an combined increase of 51.4% in 2010, although the Touareg by itself is off 20.6%. What's more important for the Audi Q5 and Volkswagen Touareg is the northward arrow in the status column of the chart below. This means they're in a higher spot this month than they were in October 2010.Yet the most obvious story from Canada's list of the Top 10 best-selling European SUVs in November 2010 must be Mercedes-Benz. With nearly 1100 Canadian SUV sales in November, Mercedes-Benz Canada's SUV trio more than doubled Volvo's overall total of 497 car and SUV sales, nearly quadrupled Jaguar/Land Rover's overall sales tally, and easily out-sold all of Audi and all of Infiniti. This discounts the effect Mercedes-Benz had on the Canadian market with its cars, some of which are really quite popular.Daimler AG's Mercedes-Benz division sold 26,577 vehicles in Canada through the first eleven months of 2010. BMW was 1627 sales behind while Toyota's Lexus total was only about half what Mercedes-Benz had by November 30th. (Acura was ahead of Lexus by 2154 sales at the end of last month.) Take away Mercedes-Benz cars and its SUV quartet - don't forget the Mercedes-Benz G-Class - trails all of Lexus by just 3358 sales this year. The GLK was a success last year when its 11-month sales total topped 4600. This year, sales of the GLK are up 16%. The 2011 Mercedes-Benz GLK350 starts at $41,300, $100 more than the Audi Q5 and $600 less than the all-new 2011 BMW X3. | Rank | SUV/Crossover | Status | October 2010 | % Change |
| #1 | Mercedes-Benz GLK | ↔ | 492 | +41 |
| #2 | Mercedes-Benz M-Class | ↑ | 419 | +28.9 |
| #3 | Volkswagen Tiguan | ↓ | 361 | -7.9 |
| #4 | BMW X5 | ↔ | 330 | -6.5 |
| #5 | Audi Q5 | ↑ | 201 | -27.4 |
| #6 | BMW X3 | ↓ | 182 | -35 |
| #7 | Mercedes-Benz G & GL | ↑ | 163 | +18.1 |
| #8 | Volvo XC60 | ↑ | 156 | +6.1 |
| #9 | Audi Q7 | ↓ | 117 | +13.6 |
| #10 | Volkswagen Touareg | ↑ | 108 | -24 |
Source: Automakers & The Automotive News Data CenterRelated From GoodCarBadCar.netTop 10 Best-Selling European SUVs In Canada - October 2010Top 10 Best-Selling Japanese SUVs In Canada - November 2010Top 10 Best-Selling SUVs In Canada - November 2010Top 10 Best-Selling American SUVs In Canada - November 2010Top 10 Best-Selling European Cars In Canada - November 2010
For the second month in a row, the 2011 Volkswagen Jetta was the best-selling European car in Canada. Talk about a quick turnaround: in September, Volkswagen Canada sold 867 Jettas. In November 2010, Volkswagen Canada sold 2086. What happened? Apart from introducing a completely new model, VW.ca shows a $6300 price drop from MY2010 to MY2011. Buyers would have to be willing to make major sacrifices in power and equipment to enjoy the 2011 Jetta's $15,875 base price, but judging by the new car's success, Volkswagen got something right.Is the new Jetta nibbling away at sales of the Volkswagen Golf? Sales of the Golf fell 18% in October but had been up 41.7% in September and 35.2% in August before the new Jetta took hold. In fact, the Golf had been out-selling the Jetta by some measure. Year-to-date, the Golf/GTI has out-sold the Jetta by 4663 units. But there's one important calculation left. Although Volkswagen Canada should be content to sell the more expensive Golf (base price of $20,475, $4600 more than the Jetta's base price) more often, combined Jetta/Golf sales were 3155 in November but just 2282 in August and 2329 in September. Selling more cars is generally assumed to be a good plan for manufacturers which build cars. Volkswagen is doing just that.Image ©GoodCarBadCar.net
Pay close attention to November 2010 Mini Cooper sales, up about 29%. The $27,850 2011 Mini Countryman has arrived and will likely kick into full sales swing in January. Will the regular Mini Cooper, Mini Cooper Clubman, and Mini Cooper Convertible be affected? Watch this space. These are Canada's Top 10 Best-Selling European Cars from November 2010. | Rank | Car | Status | October 2010 | % Change |
| #1 | Volkswagen Jetta | ↔ | 2086 | +166.4 |
| #2 | BMW 3-Series | ↑ | 1362 | +32.7 |
| #3 | Volkswagen Golf | ↓ | 1069 | -27.2 |
| #4 | Mercedes-Benz C-Class | ↑ | 610 | +6.1 |
| #5 | Mini Cooper | ↑ | 446 | +28.9 |
| #6 | BMW 5-Series | ↑ | 359 | +170 |
| T7 | Audi A4 | ↓ | 312 | -4.6 |
| T7 | Mercedes-Benz E & CLS | ↔ | 312 | -4.6 |
| #9 | Mercedes-Benz B-Class | ↑ | 228 | +15.7 |
| #10 | Volkswagen Passat | ↓ | 212 | -15.5 |
Source: Automakers & The Automotive News Data CenterRelated From GoodCarBadCar.netTop 10 Best-Selling European Cars In Canada - October 2010Top 10 Best-Selling American Cars In Canada - November 2010Top 10 Best-Selling Japanese Cars In Canada - November 2010Top 10 Best-Selling Cars In Canada - November 2010Canada Auto Sales By Brand - November 2010Top 10 Best-Selling European SUVs In Canada - November 2010
With the Chrysler Town & Country's assistance, the Dodge Grand Caravan is Canada's second-best-selling vehicle. Without it, Dodge's minivan slots right in behind the Honda Civic; 1616 sales behind through the first eleven months of 2010. The Ford Escape is more than 20,000 sales in arrears.Even so, the minivan segment is half-dead. Although the Town & Country, Grand Caravan, Toyota Sienna, and Honda Odyssey have all improved on 2009 sales levels, the segment has been beaten with a stick by smaller SUVs and crossovers in recent years. Not everybody has umpteen dozen kids and needs room for all those kids and all their stuff in one vehicle. Besides, some smallerish CUVs can seat seven as comfortably as the Mazda 5 anyway.The small utility vehicle category was worth more than 20,000 sales in November in Canada. Minivan sales barely topped 7000. A moderately successful small utility vehicle like the Mitsubishi Outlander can grab close to 900 sales in a month at the beginning of winter. That's more than Toyota's heavily-marketed Sienna or the new 2011 Honda Odyssey. Are minivans amazing transportation tools for modern families? Yes. Are minivans desirable transportation tools for modern families? Quite clearly not. Counted on to be hugely desirable in the latter part of 2010, the all-new 2011 Kia Sportage is a stylish and pleasant-to-drive small SUV with a decent history. Nevertheless, the new Sportage isn't gaining traction in the marketplace. Sportage sales fell 8.7% in November and are down 31.6% this year. Shouldn't the new model be revitalizing Sportage sales, rather than failing miserably like an antiquated run-out model? The Hyundai Tucson is engineered identically but looks completely different, in a not-as-good-looking kind of way. Yet Tucson sales were up 39% in November, out-selling the Sportage 3.6-to-1. Is this the 2011 Kia Sorento's fault? The Sorento doesn't cost much more than the Sportage ($23,995 vs. $21,995 for the Sportage) but is roomier and features more conventional, tougher SUV styling. The Sorento is a mad hit as Canada's seventh-best-selling SUV in November.Related From GoodCarBadCar.netMinivan Sales In Canada - November 2011Canadian Sales Of Small SUVs In December & 2010 Year EndCanadian Minivan Sales In December & 2010 Year EndSmall SUV Sales In Canada - October 2010Minivan Sales In Canada - October 2010Midsize & Large SUV Sales In Canada - November 2010Small Luxury SUV Sales In Canada - November 2010Top 10 Best-Selling SUVs In Canada - November 2010
