Large Luxury Car Sales In America - April 2014 YTD

Mercedes-Benz USA reported its seventh consecutive month of year-over-year S-Class sales improvement in April 2014. 

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The S-Class is the freshest face in a segment that favours fresh faces. The S-Class outsold the Lexus LS by a 2.7-to-1 count in April 2014. The LS, like the Audi A7 and Mercedes-Benz's own CLS, compete in a much lower price bracket. 

The A7 and CLS are very much style-conscious, high-priced versions of midsize luxury cars. BMW's 6-Series, meanwhile, is available in three different bodystyles, and sales, while slow in April, are booming this year. The 6er is priced a lot like the 7-Series, a traditional S-Class rival. But the 7-Series has sold just once in 2014 for every 2.8 S-Classes. 

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

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Segment-wide sales were up in April, whether you include the A7, 6-Series, and CLS or exclude the trio. 1% of the passenger cars sold in the United States in April 2014 are displayed in this post, and 29% of the sales displayed in this post were generated by the S-Class.

You can click any model name in the tables below to find historical monthly and yearly U.S. auto sales data. You can also select a make and model at GCBC's Sales Stats page. This table is sortable, so you can rank large luxury cars any which way you like. Suggestions on how GCBC should break down segments can be passed on through the Contact page.

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Large Luxury Car	April 2014	April 2013	% Change	2014 YTD	2013 YTD	%  Change
Audi A7 *	816	645	26.5%	2922	2728	7.1%
Audi A8	443	467	-5.1%	1617	1929	-16.2%
BMW 6-Series	483	760	-36.4%	4610	2831	62.8%
BMW 7-Series	674	871	-22.6%	2556	3209	-20.3%
Jaguar XJ	369	323	14.2%	1578	1568	0.6%
Lexus LS	712	700	1.7%	2679	3560	-24.7%
Mercedes-Benz CLS-Class *	562	640	-12.2%	2045	2335	-12.4%
Mercedes-Benz  S-Class	1909	1103	73.1%	7278	4180	74.1%
Porsche Panamera	517	501	3.2%	1983	1885	5.2%
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Total	6485	6010	7.9%	27,268	24,225	12.6%

Source: Automakers & ANDC 
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, right? This explains why you'll see the the A7 and CLS here but also with midsize luxury 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. Sales data for brands such as Aston Martin, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Lotus, Rolls-Royce etc. are unfortunately not broken down by model. ANDC estimates say sales for those brands in April 2014 were 102, 175, 59, 14, and 75, respectively. ANDC also estimates that Tesla sold 2050 cars in April.

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