Midsize SUV Sales In Canada - March 2014 YTD

This won't be news to faithful followers of GoodCarBadCar: Canadians are buying fewer cars. But we're buying more new vehicles overall. 

So, if a customer doesn't end up in a Mazda 6, what did he buy? Well, probably a CX-5. But maybe a CX-9. He or she may have skipped over the Ford Fusion in favour of a Ford Explorer, avoided a Chrysler 300 and drove away in a Jeep Grand Cherokee, slipped into a Nissan Pathfinder rather than a Nissan Maxima. 

• All 242 Vehicles Ranked By March 2014 YTD Canadian Sales

• All 84 SUVs & Crossovers Ranked By March 2014 YTD Canadian Sales

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Consider the Nissan example. They've produced the Canadian auto industry's greatest volume increases in the first quarter of 2014. Brand-wide sales are up by 4575 units through the first three months of the year, although the Altima, Cube, GT-R, Leaf, Maxima, Sentra, Versa, and Z are up by just 521 units and the company's two pickup trucks and three vans have added only 671 sales. 

The Rogue has played a big role in the brand's improvement, admittedly, but Pathfinder sales are up 58%, equal to 809 extra sales. 

Nissan has also shown a new Murano for MY2015 at the auto show in New York this week, a vehicle which should bear fruit next year.

Nissan is by no means the only company to sell a massively greater number of SUVs and crossovers in 2014. Thanks in large part to the new Highlander, sales of Toyota's five utility vehicles - 4Runner, FJ Cruiser, Highlander, RAV4, Sequoia - are up 13%. Jeep has sold an extra 2838 SUVs, including 258 more Grand Cherokees. 

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 GCBC's Sales Stats page. These tables are now sortable, so you can rank midsize 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 • April 2014 • February 2014 • March 2013

SUV	March 2014	March 2013	% Change	2014 YTD	2013 YTD	% Change
Buick Enclave	277	223	24.2%	595	571	4.2%
Chevrolet Traverse	290	222	30.6%	686	571	20.1%
Dodge Durango	307	123	150%	815	402	103%
Ford Edge	1488	1385	7.4%	3262	2957	10.3%
Ford Explorer	1085	898	20.8%	2263	2055	10.1%
Ford Flex	177	241	-26.6%	310	454	-31.7%
GMC Acadia	558	330	69.1%	1066	835	27.7%
Honda Pilot	531	395	34.4%	1252	989	26.6%
Hyundai Santa Fe Sport *	3369	2253	49.5%	6194	5711	8.5%
Hyundai Santa Fe XL	432	88	391%	1025	88	1065%
Hyundai Veracruz	---	43	-100%	---	257	-100%
Jeep Grand Cherokee	816	659	23.8%	2310	2052	12.6%
Kia Sorento *	1043	1212	-13.9%	2683	2889	-7.1%
Mazda CX-9	251	163	54.0%	375	517	-27.5%
Nissan Murano	278	387	-28.2%	705	898	-21.5%
Nissan Pathfinder	1044	562	85.8%	2204	1395	58.0%
Subaru Tribeca	24	16	50.0%	58	42	38.1%
Toyota 4Runner	348	231	50.6%	935	588	59.0%
Toyota Highlander	1048	626	67.4%	2084	1432	45.5%
Volkswagen Touareg *	168	188	-10.6%	429	443	-3.2%
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Total	13,534	10,245	32.1%	29,251	25,146	16.3%

Offroaders	March 2014	March 2013	% Change	2014 YTD	2013 YTD	% Change
Jeep Wrangler *	1911	1719	11.2%	4037	3913	3.2%
Nissan Xterra *	162	109	48.6%	318	234	35.9%
Toyota FJ Cruiser *	95	53	79.2%	203	145	40.0%
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Total	2168	1881	15.3%	4558	4292	6.2%

Tall Wagons  & Crossovers	March 2014	March 2013	% Change	2014 YTD	2013 YTD	% Change
Honda Crosstour *	77	120	-35.8%	167	317	-47.3%
Subaru Outback *	631	534	18.2%	1456	1419	2.6%
Toyota Venza *	680	842	-19.2%	1639	1898	-13.6%
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Total	1388	1496	-7.2%	3262	3634	-10.2%

Source: Automakers & ANDC
* indicates a vehicle that is also shown in another GCBC segment breakdown.
^ Total Santa Fe volume: up 62% to 3801 in March, up 24% to 7219 YTD.
GCBC isn't 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 why you'll see the Wrangler and Xterra listed with small SUVs, too, and the Subaru Outback shown with mainstream cars... 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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