Top 20 Best Selling Cars In America August 2014

With a massive 51,075-unit August, the Honda Accord became Americas best-selling car last month, outselling the Toyota Camry by 7032 units.

The Camry leads the Accord by 35,045 units heading into the final one-third of 2014.

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• U.S. Vehicle Sales Rankings By Model - August 2014 YTD
• U.S. Car Sales Rankings By Model - August 2014 YTD

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Hondas small car, the Civic, also outsold its Toyota counterpart, the Corolla, in August 2014. The Corolla leads the Civic on year-to-date terms, however. 

The Accords 51,075 sales marks an all-time best month for the venerable nameplate. Jointly, the Accord, Civic, and CR-V - Americas second-best-selling utility vehicle last month - accounted for 79% of the brands sales.

Americas top-selling Detroit brand car last month was the Ford Fusion, sales of which jumped 19.5% compared with August 2013. In total, Detroit nameplates accounted for five of Americas 20 best-selling cars, with no participation from the Chrysler Group.

Historical monthly and yearly sales figures for any of these best-selling cars can always be accessed through the dropdown menu at GCBCs Sales Stats page, and for those not viewing the mobile version of this site, near the top right of this page, as well. GoodCarBadCar has already published the list of Americas best-selling trucks and the list of Americas best-selling SUVs in August 2014.

September 2014 • July 2014 • August 2013

Rank	Best-Selling Car	August 2014	August 2013	% Change	2014 YTD	2013 YTD	% Change
#1	Honda Accord	51,075	38,559	32.5%	271,426	256,926	5.6%
#2	Toyota Camry	44,043	44,713	-1.5%	306,471	287,119	6.7%
#3	Honda Civic	34,032	39,458	-13.8%	231,167	230,578	0.3%
#4	Toyota Corolla/Matrix	33,088	26,861	23.2%	238,275	210,296	13.3%
#5	Nissan Altima	32,153	30,976	3.8%	235,260	228,297	3.0%
#6	Ford Fusion	29,452	24,653	19.5%	218,892	206,321	6.1%
#7	Chevrolet Cruze	23,435	23,909	-2.0%	189,699	183,045	3.6%
#8	Hyundai Elantra	22,845	24,700	-7.5%	157,555	174,902	-9.9%
#9	Ford Focus	22,079	20,372	8.4%	160,759	171,921	-6.5%
#10	Hyundai Sonata	21,092	16,917	24.7%	150,016	138,830	8.1%
#11	Nissan Sentra	17,182	12,605	36.3%	128,659	90,483	42.2%
#12	Chevrolet Malibu	16,346	16,890	-3.2%	133,388	140,463	-5.0%
#13	Toyota Prius	15,542	17,948	-13.4%	102,116	115,040	-11.2%
	Toyota Prius Sedan ^	14,724	16,157	-8.9%	90,627	108,218	-16.3%
	Toyota Prius Plug-In ^	818	1791	-54.3%	11,489	6822	68.4%
#14	Volkswagen Jetta	15,361	16,280	-5.6%	104,810	110,964	-5.5%
#15	Kia Optima	15,337	15,199	0.9%	111,738	112,409	-0.6%
#16	Kia Soul	15,069	10,017	50.4%	104,777	83,208	25.9%
#17	Nissan Versa	14,630	9991	46.4%	98,200	82,759	18.7%
#18	Chevrolet Sonic	12,799	11,354	12.7%	69,619	62,314	11.7%
#19	BMW 3-Series & 4-Series *	12,477	10,357	20.5%	81,631	69,409	17.6%
#20	Subaru Outback ‡	11,428	10,163	12.5%	85,951	81,930	4.9%

Source: Automakers 
* BMW USA, not GoodCarBadCar, chooses to combined sales of the 3-Series and 4-Series.
^ Prius breakdown by variant 
‡ Prefer to think of the Subaru Outback as an SUV/crossover than a tall wagon? Thats sensible. The Outback would have ranked 13th among SUVs and crossovers in August, and the Mazda 3 would move up to the 20th spot among cars.

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Small And Midsize Luxury SUV Sales In Canada August 2014 YTD

Canadians registered their first 282 Audi Q3s in August 2014. 

BMWs X1 has been here for more than three years. 12,556 have been sold.

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• Canada Auto Sales Brand Rankings - August 2014 YTD
• Canada SUV/Crossover Sales Rankings By Model - August 2014 YTD
• Canada Vehicle Sales Rankings By Model - August 2014 YTD

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Mercedes-Benzs GLA is set to arrive shortly. Buick has been selling Encores for nearly two years, but to what extent does a Q3 customer wants an underpowered ugly duckling from a Detroit automaker? The Encore isnt unpopular: 629 were sold in August along with 990 copies of the Chevrolet Trax.

These vehicles will be displayed in their own separate table once theres a large enough number of vehicles to support their own list. Far more popular than the X1 is Audis Q5, the best-selling luxury brand utility vehicle in Canada. BMW is selling 1.9 X3s per X1 even in this year of greater X3 decline. 

No matter which way you look at it, Canadian interest in these vehicles is surging. No premium brand SUV or crossover puts up the kinds of numbers achieved by category leaders like the Ford Escape, Honda CR-V, and Toyota RAV4. But its not difficult to spot a marketplace shift when many of the automakers selling these vehicles didnt offer a single utility vehicle nameplate less than two decades ago. No Acuras, Audis, BMWs, Mercedes-Benzes, Porsches, or Volvos. 

You can click any model name in the tables below to find historical monthly and yearly Canadian auto sales data. You can also select a make and model at GCBCs Sales Stats page. These tables are now sortable, so you can rank luxury SUVs and crossovers any which way you like. Suggestions on how GCBC should break down segments can be passed on through the Contact page.

Click Column Headers To Sort • September 2014 • July 2014 • August 2013

Small Luxury SUV	August 2014	August 2013	% Change	2014 YTD	2013 YTD	% Change
Acura RDX	443	534	-17.0%	4379	4053	8.0%
Audi Q3	282	---	---	282	---	---
Audi Q5	692	681	1.6%	5180	4827	7.3%
BMW X1	149	94	58.5%	1890	2027	-6.8%
BMW X3	407	352	15.6%	3522	4280	-17.7%
BMW X4	69	---	---	110	---	---
Infiniti QX50 / EX	163	98	66.3%	1246	1008	23.6%
Land Rover LR2	55	39	41.0%	397	342	16.1%
Land Rover Range Rover Evoque	160	174	-8.0%	1126	1128	-0.2%
Lincoln MKC	358	---	---	660	---	---
Mercedes-Benz GLK-Class	321	383	-16.2%	3404	4067	-16.3%
Porsche Macan	199	---	---	662	---	---
Volvo XC60	122	164	-25.6%	1000	1196	-16.4%
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Total	3420	2519	35.8%	23,858	22,928	4.1%

Midsize Luxury SUV	August 2014	August 2013	% Change	2014 YTD	2013 YTD	% Change
Acura MDX	542	527	2.8%	3973	4053	-2.0%
Acura ZDX	---	3	-100%	5	34	-85.3%
Audi Q7	152	143	6.3%	1316	1182	11.3%
BMW X5	282	284	-0.7%	3888	2087	86.3%
BMW X6	54	71	-23.9%	381	515	-26.0%
Cadillac SRX	344	386	-10.9%	2937	2310	27.1%
Infiniti QX60/JX	280	196	42.9%	2255	2164	4.2%
Infiniti QX70/FX	52	43	20.9%	303	450	-32.7%
Land Rover LR4	36	43	-16.3%	270	287	-5.9%
Land Rover Range Rover Sport	194	106	83.0%	1771	993	78.3%
Lexus GX460	25	18	38.9%	365	196	86.2%
Lexus RX	684	705	-3.0%	5113	5070	0.8%
Lincoln MKT	15	33	-54.5%	198	256	-22.7%
Lincoln MKX	261	225	16.0%	1910	2110	-9.5%
Mercedes-Benz M-Class	509	424	20.0%	3770	2880	30.9%
Porsche Cayenne	148	199	-25.6%	1428	1294	10.4%
Volkswagen Touareg *	229	203	12.8%	1434	1396	2.7%
Volvo XC70 *	35	63	-44.4%	352	421	-16.4%
Volvo XC90	55	32	71.9%	268	402	-33.3%
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Total	3897	3704	5.2%	31,937	28,100	13.6%

Source: Automakers & ANDC
* indicates a vehicle which is also shown in another GCBC segment breakdown
GCBC isnt here to break down segments, an impossible task for any group, but to display sales data for the sake of comparison. The more ways sales data can be displayed, the better. This explains youll see the XC70 listed with luxury cars as well as with SUVs and crossovers and the Touareg with luxury SUVs and mainstream SUVs... because readers have wanted it both ways. You can always find the sales results for EVERY vehicle and form your own competitive sets by using the All Vehicle Rankings posts.

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Small & Midsize Luxury SUV Sales In Canada - September 2014 YTD
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