U.S. Auto Sales vs Canada Auto Sales - Differences In 2011

As an auto Sales Stats addict, you typically read GoodCarBadCar.net's posts on both U.S. Auto Sales and Canadian Auto Sales. The differences are astounding but seem easily explained by pointing to population differences. Is that all there is to it? Is the Canadian new vehicle market just a smaller version of the American new vehicle market? Aren't Canadians just Americans without guns? Don't they buy the same vehicles even as they watch the same TV shows?

Three pertinent points must be made before we bother looking at specific automobiles. First, there are specific models available in the U.S. which aren't available in Canada, and vice versa. Second, there's a huge set of financial factors at play, from fuel prices to currency exchange and unique tariffs. Finally, Canadians buy more vehicles on a per capita basis. Through the first four months of 2011, there was one vehicle sold for every 70 people in Canada. During the same period, Americans acquired one vehicle for every 73 people. In other words, despite a population that's nine times bigger than Canada's, America's new vehicle market so far this year is only 8.5 times bigger.

With all that explained, here's a quick look at a few vehicles Americans buy with exceedingly greater frequency than their friendly neighbours to the north, along with some others that Canadians are more likely to acquire. Keep two aforementioned figures in mind: nine and 8.5, the numbers by which you'd multiply Canada's population and new vehicle market size to arrive at the American totals.

Chevrolet HHR: U.S. sales are 58.6 times stronger.
Ford Explorer: U.S. sales are 16.2 times stronger.
Honda CR-Z: U.S. sales are 21.7 times stronger.
Hyundai Equus: U.S. sales are 35.2 times stronger.
Land Rover Range Rover: U.S. sales are 26.9 times stronger.
Mini Countryman: U.S. sales are 15.6 times stronger.
Toyota Avalon: U.S. sales are 66.4 times stronger.

Dodge Grand Caravan: only 1.9 times better in the U.S. 
Fiat 500: pretty much on par in North America; 67 units stronger in the States.
Ford F-Series: just 5.9 times better in the U.S.
Hyundai Accent: just 2.8 times better in the U.S.
Mazda Tribute: 1.2 times stronger in Canada.
Mitsubishi Outlander: only 1.6 times better in the U.S.
Toyota Venza: just 2.6 times better in the U.S.

*All figures relate to year-to-date figures through the end of April 2011

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U.S. Auto Sales News From April 2011

In all your scanning of GoodCarBadCar.net's auto sales rundown for the United States in April, you've read The Good Car Guy's conclusions and you've formed some more of your own. Here are some others.

40% of all BMWs sold in America in April were one configuration or another of the 3-Series.

Mini's most popular bodystyle was the regular hatchback. 3367 were sold. The Cooper and Cooper S Convertible formed the least popular bodystyle, down 15.8% to 565 April sales. The Clubman fared slightly better, down just 2.9% to 805. In second spot behind the regular Cooper hatch was the new Countryman, Driven by The Good Car Guy here.

69.2% of all Chrysler Group sales were officially "light trucks". In other words, for every ten Chryslers, Dodges, Jeeps, and Fiats sold, only three were passenger cars in the traditional sense.

Ferrari sold an estimated 131 cars. Maybach, the Automotive News Data Center estimates, sold five.

The Ford Transit Connect was Ford's 14th-best-selling model in April with 2668 sales, ahead of the E-Series/Club Wagon's 2559 sales but behind the Expedition's 3214 sales.

April was all about convertibles in the now-cancelled Mitsubishi Eclipse range. 1092 buyers opted for the Eclipse Spyder, only 261 chose the hardtop.

Infiniti G sales were down overall, but don't blame the G37 Coupe, up 0.4% to 1267. G25 and G37 sales fell a combined 13.8% to 2588.

Half the Porsches sold in America in April were Good 12-winning Cayennes.

Subaru is balanced. Excluding the oft-ignored Tribeca, no model was worth less than 16.1% of the brand's overall April sales output. That's the Legacy, by the way. Even Subaru's most popular model, the Outback, was only responsible for 38.2% of all April sales. For a company with what amounts to a four-car lineup, this is healthy.

The Acura RL posted a slight sales increase in April, up to 181 from 154 in April 2010. But the RL wasn't Acura's least popular model. With just 176 sales (down from 234 in the same period of last year) the Bad 8-losing ZDX was responsible for fewer than one in every 65 Acura sales. RL volume was lower than Hyundai Equus volume in April

More than a quarter of all Audi sales were Q5 or Q7 SUVs/crossovers. Not displayed in a conventional GoodCarBadCar.net Graph, the Mercedes-Benz R-Class found 195 U.S. buyers in April, down from 519. Mercedes-Benz USA also sold a B-Class mini-minivan in April, presumably a B-Class F-Cell.

The Nissan LEAF beat the Chevrolet Volt in April. The Toyota Prius beat the Honda Insight; we'd be shocked if it hadn't. Toyota's Venza also beat the Honda Accord Crosstour. The Chevrolet Camaro's year-to-date lead on the Ford Mustang expanded in April, also.

Auto Sales By Segment In The USA And Canada - April 2011

Who buys more trucks? Canadians, or Americans? You'd be forgiven for assuming it was the Texas-encapsulating United States, particularly if you hadn't read last month's version of this post, but you'd be wrong.

This is all relative, of course. In April 2011, U.S. residents, governments, and fleets of all kinds picked up 139,411 pickup trucks. In a market that's seven times smaller, Canada is now home to 26,255 more trucks than it was at the end of March. Yes, the U.S. has ten times the population, an auto market that's generally around seven times the size, but bought barely more than five trucks for every truck purchased north of the border. It's interesting, especially given the average price of fuel in Canada: near $1.40 per litre. That works out to $5.59 per gallon in the U.S. at current exchange rates, some way above the $4.00/gallon average. 

So, Americans buy trucks in greater volume, but in the context of their market dimensions, Canadians buy more trucks.

Sport-utility vehicles and crossovers pretty much made up the exact same percentage of overall vehicle sales. Minivans are certainly more of an acceptable purchase in Canada than in the United States. "Other vehicles" - commercial vans and defunct models like the Suzuki XL7 - are bit players in both nations. 

This leaves traditional passenger cars. 53% of all U.S. new vehicle sales in April were cars. Fewer than half of all new vehicle sales in Canada were cars. And there the story diverges down different paths again. In Canada, car sales are dominated by small models like the 2012 Honda Civic and Toyota Corolla. Meanwhile, 60% of America's 10 best-selling cars in April were larger than small. 

According to the Automotive News Data Center, Canadian auto sales totalled 160,091 in April; U.S. sales reached 1,157,928. The Graph breaks everything down in simple slices.

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Collective sales of the biggest SUVs on sale in America totalled 17,640 last month. In the same period of 2010, sales of jumbo sport-utes totalled 21,137. That 16.5% drop, however, is mainly a result of falling jumbo SUV sales at General Motors. The Chevrolet Suburban, Chevrolet Tahoe, GMC Yukon, and GMC Yukon XL together lost 2799 sales, five from the Yukon, 469 from the Yukon XL, 851 from the Tahoe, and 1474 from the Suburban. The Nissan Armada and Kia Borrego were down in April, as well.

Although it isn't easy pinning down the corners of the mainstream midsize SUV segment, based on the definitions GCBC uses in this post's second Graph, there were 102,747 midsize utility vehicles sold in April 2011. That's up from 78,934 in April 2010, a huge 30.2% year-over-year increase. How'd that happen? 23,813 new midsize SUV customers came to the segment by way of the all-new 2011 Ford Explorer (+7298 sales), 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee (+6409 sales), 2011 Dodge Durango (+5062 sales), GMC Acadia (+2035 sales), Toyota Highlander (+1867 sales), Mitsubishi Endeavor (+1621 sales), and smaller gains from a various other models. These improvements more than covered up declines posted by the Nissan Murano and Suzuki XL7, as well as the disappearing act performed by the Jeep Commander and Mercury Mountaineer.

Finally, there's the small utility vehicle category. With new-to-the-world vehicles like the Mini Countryman, Nissan Juke, and Mitsubishi Outlander Sport, you'd expect to see growth in the third chart. 161,802 smallerish SUVs and crossovers were sold in the United States in April, up from 127,879 in April of last year. An improvement of 33,923 sales has something to do with 6391 sales from the Countryman, Juke, and Outlander Sport. But it also has plenty to do with the greater volumes put up by the Ford Escape, Honda CR-V, Kia Sportage, Mazda CX-7, Nissan Rogue, Toyota RAV4, Volkswagen Tiguan, GM's twins, three Jeeps, and a handful of others.

Meanwhile, pickup truck sales are at a three-decade low.

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Small Luxury SUV Sales And Midsize Luxury SUV Sales In America - April 2011

In every single month of 2011 thus far, the Lexus RX has been the best-selling luxury vehicle in the United States. That's a good thing for Lexus. And RX sales were up 4.7% in April, another piece of good news. Also, RX sales are up 7.3% through the first four months of 2011. But then there's the GX460. GX sales soared 36.6% in April, yet even with that increase, GX sales have plummeted 19.7% year-to-date, a significant 1090-unit drop. That's more than one-third of the overall Lexus brand's decline in 2011. Still, that's nothing compared to the Lexus HS250h's 78.4% drop.

The RX certainly has the not-completely-dissimilar Cadillac SRX beat. Easily the RX's closest rival in terms of volume, the SRX trailed the Lexus by 3422 sales in April 2011 alone. Yet the SRX remains a runaway hit for Cadillac. No other two utility vehicles in the Graph you'll see at the bottom of this post can combine to triumphantly challenge the SRX. Lately, there's been important SRX-related news from Cadillac: a 300-hp 3.6L V6 will anchor the lineup by summer's end, a major plus for Cadillac dealers.

What the Land Rover LR2 does not have is a new engine. Sales of the smallest Land Rover SUV fell 15.7% in April and are down 23.2% through the first four months of 2011. That's without the soon-coming Evoque to challenge the LR2 in Land Rover showrooms. The Infiniti EX35, a consistently lackluster Infiniti promoter in this popular small luxury SUV segment, was nearly twice as successful as the LR2 in April.

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Cadillac Doesn't Sell Enough Of These 
Beasts To Qualify For GCBC Charts

4294 luxury limos were sold in America in April. Nearly 14%% of them were Porsches. Confused reader say whaaa?

Ok, so the Porsche Panamera isn't exactly a traditional limo. But it is a direct rival for upper echelon sedans. Panamera sales actually dropped 81 units to 597 in April 2011. Is that because, like Clarkson, Hammond, and May, more and more consumers are realizing they must avert their eyes? Or is this just one of those months which proves there is little selling consistency when a company is marketing gigantic hatchbacks with prices ranging from $74,400 to $173,200? Yeah, it's probably that.

Speaking of a lack of consistency, last month's best-selling large luxury car, the BMW 7-Series, suffered a 51.1% year-over-year decline and landed a spot on America's 10 Worst-Selling Cars list. It was the Mercedes-Benz S-Class's month to shine as sales of the big Benz brute rose 7.9% and its market share in the segment climbed to more than a quarter.

While we await a production version of the stunning Cadillac XTS Platinum Concept, Cadillac is content to sell 1906 DTS sedans per month and form 27.7% of the Large Luxury SUV category, as seen below. You can also see part of the Escalade's 1733 sales in the truck chart here. The Escalade's year-to-date lead over the Mercedes-Benz GL-Class currently stands at 1610 sales.

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There's no arguing about the magnitude of Volvo S60 sales in the United States in April. Standing in stark contrast to BMW's 7452 3-Series sales or seven other cars which sold at least 574 more copies last month, the new S60 appears feeble. On the other hand, the Volvo S60 was far and away Volvo USA's best-selling vehicle in April 2011, out-performing Volvo's #2 product, the XC60, by 752 sales. S60 sales in April 2010 amounted to nothing. Seriously. They didn't sell any as the wait for the 2011 S60 was.... underway. The S60 was worth 31% of all April Volvo sales.

In the first third of 2011, S60 sales are up 25,788% to 6213. Yep, BMW sold more 3-Series sedans, coupes, convertibles, and wagons in April than Volvo has sold S60s so far this year. But for Volvo, the S60 has been a bit of a saviour. Last year at this time Volvo had just reported total U.S. sales of 3138. This April, Volvo sold 6404 vehicles. Other than the aging S60 and aging XC90, every Volvo model has posted year-over-year declines in the first four months of this year. Without the S60's resurgence, Volvo would be down 15.6% in 2011. With the new S60, Volvo is up 17.7%. 

While it's worth pointing out that Infiniti sold twice as many G25s and G37s as Volvo did S60s, Infiniti G sales plummeted from 7009 in March to 3885 in April. Like the Infiniti and the overall market, sales of the 3-Series, Cadillac CTS, Lexus CT, Lexus IS, Lincoln MKZ, Mercedes-Benz C-Class, Saab 9-3, and Volvo S40/V50 also declined over that period. During the same time, sales of the 2011 Volvo S60 increased by 20 units.

Oh, but all is not well with Volvo in the other chart posted a little ways down this page. XC70 sales were down 18.2% and are down 32.5% this year. (There was just the one V70 sold in April.) Meanwhile, Volvo S80 sales fell 27.6% and have nearly been cut in half in 2011. The most popular midsize luxury cars remain German strongholds from BMW and Mercedes-Benz. 5-Series sales improved at a 77.5% clip; E-Class sales were up 17.9% in April.

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Minivan Sales And Truck Sales In America - April 2011

Through the first four months of 2011, Toyota sold 37,060 Sienna minivans. That's up 60.6% from the first four months of 2010, a pretty impressive showing based (at least partially) on the Swagger Wagon commercials. And good product. And 4-cylinder engines, something the competition doesn't offer?

Just 754 sales shy of the Sienna's 37,060 total, the new 2011 Honda Odyssey is up 8% this year. The Kia Sedona isn't much competition, but Kia's minivan was up 39.8% in April. Not a bad van by any means, the Sedona still can't make gains like that without a handsome load of incentives. The Kia dealer a few kilometres from GCBC Towers (in Canada, admittedly) advertises Sedonas with $13,000 off the MSRP.

With 32,769 sales, the new 2011 Chrysler Town & Country trails both the Sienna and Odyssey. In tandem, however, the Town & Country/2011 Dodge Grand Caravan crush the minivan competition, with 69,490 sales year-to-date. The Grand Caravan was down 15.7% in April but still leads the Odyssey in 2011. The Town & Country dropped 33.9% last month.

Dodge put up better April numbers with its Ram pickup. From 13,665 Ram sales in April 2010, Dodge improved by more than 4000 sales. In the first four months of 2011, Ram sales are up 36.2%. For every Ram sold in America so far this year, Ford sold 2.44 F-Series trucks. The F-Series posted an 11% jump in April and is up 19.5% in 2011. Sales of GM's Avalanche, Sierra, and Silverado are up to 172,070 from 140,510 in the first four months of 2010.

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Lexus IS C

Despite being down 6.5% through the first third of the year, Volvo C70 sales shot up 71.6% in April 2011. After staring at the terribly unattractive roof arrangement of a Lexus IS C outside the grocery store yesterday, the first representative I could think of for positive hardtop convertible roofing was the Volvo C70. 695 fortunate new owners now get to enjoy the C70's beautifully integrated top for the foreseeable future.

While not a big volume car like the Chevrolet Camaro or Ford Mustang, the C70 was far less of a niche player than the Audi TT, BMW Z4, or Mercedes-Benz SLK last month. Sales of those three German vehicles totalled 648, 47 fewer than the single Swede's output. There are a handful of convertibles not featured in GoodCarBadCar.net's sporty car charts because their sales are rolled into one figure: BMW's 3-Series coupe and hardtop convertible, Trollhättan's $45,080 2011 Saab 9-3 Convertible, and the Lexus IS C are three examples. The C70 was Volvo's fourth-best-selling nameplate in the U.S. in April, trailing the S60, XC60, and XC90.

Lexus, BMW, Audi, and Mercedes-Benz all offer higher-end options for heavily-walleted customers; Volvo does not and has no plans to. An overly simplified profit calculator would say that Audi sold 201 TTs in April and, assuming every TT sold was a base model, Audi took in $7,698,300 in TT-based revenue. Audi also sold 114 R8s. Now assume every R8 sold was a "basic" $115,200 V8 coupe. From the R8, Audi would have taken in $13,018,800. Sounds tasty. Then again, Audi sold 1437 A5s. Even if all the 5s sold were standard A5s and not well-optioned S5s, Audi's revenue from that product line totals $53,025,300. 

A5/S5 sales fell 22.2% in April. Sales of the R8 shot up 178%. TT sales declined by six units. The R8 remains no match for the Porsche 911, up 65.8% in April, nor was it much competition for the suddenly reinvigorated $89,950 2012 Nissan GT-R, which posted a 143.4% year-over-year increase. As a whole, the Audi brand was up 7.5% as America's sixth-ranked luxury brand.

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Small Car Sales, Midsize Car Sales, Large Car Sales In America - April 2011

Sales of the Toyota Avalon, Nissan Maxima, Lincoln Town Car, Hyundai Azera, Dodge Charger, and Chrysler 300 declined in year-over-year Sales Stats last month. Perhaps this isn't the best time to be selling a 19-mpg full-size V8 sedan like the $38,170 2011 Chrysler 300C. Perhaps efficiency has nothing to do with its 21% sales drop. Perhaps... 864 missing Chrysler 300 buyers acquired a 2012 Fiat 500 instead - there were 882 of those sold in the U.S. 

The Chrysler brand sold one other car in April, the 200. There were no PT Cruiser sales, no leftover Sebrings, no New Yorkers, not a single LeBaron. Compared with the Sebring's April 2010 volume, Chrysler 200 sales shot up 104%. Its platform-mate, the Dodge Avenger, posted a 26% improvement. As a duo, the Avenger/200 would rank seventh in midsize car sales in April. The Good Car Guy wrote extensively on the subject of the Chrysler 200 sales for Cars.com's Kicking Tires blog back in early April.

If the Avenger/200 duo would've ranked seventh, that means there were many cars selling in vastly superior numbers. With 30,443 sales, the Toyota Camry beat the Honda Accord for top spot in the segment and best-selling car overall by just 133 units. After a strong March, the Nissan Altima fought for a 17% year-over-year bump but fell 47% month-to-month.

Among the smallest cars on sale in the United States, it's apparent that the Honda Civic and Toyota Corolla no longer have a market monopoly. Cruze sales shot through the roof in April, up 84% on the Cobalt's April 2010 tally, as Chevrolet topped the Corolla/Matrix tandem and beat the Ford Focus by nearly 8000 units. 37 of those Cruze sales come from leftover Cobalts. Expect the 2012 Focus to come on stronger over the course of the summer. 

All the data you need can be found in the three charts below.

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Top 10 Worst-Selling Cars In America - April 2011

Vehicles which either sold not at all, weren't on sale at this time last year, have been killed off by their maker, or are badged with a defunct logo aren't included here. Also, we're not discussing total volume here, just percentage decreases. 

Is the Ford Flex losing sales because of the all-new 2012 Ford Explorer? That's a distinct possibility. In April 2010, Flex sales reached 3876; Explorer sales stood at 5295. Flex sales were chopped in half last month; Explorer sales jumped 137.8%. Flex sales had risen 21.5% in April 2010. All that said, of the Top 10 Worst-Selling Vehicles In America, the Flex posted larger volumes than all but the Yaris. 

One other model that may be losing out to an in-showroom rival is the dreadful Lexus HS250h. With the $29,120 2011 Lexus CT200h hatchback rightfully stealing the HS's limelight, sales of the HS sedan dropped 74.1% to 279. On another note, CT200h sales dropped off notably from March's 2199 to 875 in April.

Keep in mind, there are excuses automakers could present on behalf of the vehicles that have landed in this Worst Sellers table. Take the the CLS-Class Benz for example - it's presently undergoing a generational changeover. 

Rank	Vehicle	% Drop	March 2011
#1	Mercedes-Benz CLS-Class	-78.2	104
#2	Lexus HS250h	-74.1	279
#3	Mercedes-Benz R-Class	-62.4	195
#4	BMW 7-Series	-51.1	760
#5	Ford Flex	-50.3	1927
#6	Toyota Yaris	-48.5	1987
#7	Honda Ridgeline	-45.0	952
#8	Jaguar XK	-38.2	149
#9	Volkswagen Routan	-36.6	935
#10	Lincoln Navigator	-35.6	604

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Popular Car Market Share In America - April 2011

Every single vehicle in this market share chart of America's 20 best-sellers was manufactured in North America. Some are Canadians, some are Mexicans, ten are badged as Detroit vehicles: Fords, Chevrolets, and Dodges. 

Together, they were responsible for 40% of all new vehicle sales in the United States in April 2011. To come up with the other 60% of new vehicle sales, you need to see the figures for more than ten times the number of models. You follow? More than 230 nameplates grabbed 60% of the market. 20 nameplates grabbed 40% of the market. The vehicles you see in the pie chart below are uber-popular. 

None more so than the Ford F-Series. With 3.92% of the overall market, the F-Series lost a few tenths of a percentage point compared with March, but still out-sold the Toyota Camry by about 15,000 units. Together, the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra owned 3.44% of the market. Speaking of unity, the Chrysler Town & Country and Dodge Grand Caravan - if calculated as one minivan -  held 1.52% market share in April and would slot in  behind the Dodge Ram with 17,635 sales, just 45 units behind their pickup brother. General Motors sold one out of every five vehicles in April. The Chrysler Group sold one in ten.

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