Large Luxury Car Sales In America - August 2014 YTD

No surprises here, the Mercedes-Benz S-Class continues to be America's favourite flagship luxury sedan. The S-Class outsold the Lexus LS by nearly 1100 units in August; the BMW 7-Series by a 3.5-to-1 count.

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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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Not only did the S-Class conquer the leaderboard in August, it did so so at the expense of all its rivals. Audi A8 sales tumbled 20%, 7-Series volume plunged 43%, Jaguar XJ volume slid 23%, the Lexus LS was off August 2013's pace by 16%, and the Porsche Panamera was down 6%.

Less direct rivals from Audi and BMW (the A7 and 6-Series) were down 5% and 38%, respectively. Mercedes-Benz's own CLS-Class, a high-priced and swoopier-styled E-Class, added 372 sales to its August 2013 total.

Yet what a brand like Lexus may have lost in LS sales (and perhaps even in LS profit) was made up for by surging IS sales (up by 880 units). BMW's 3-Series and 4-Series rose by 2120 units. Audi sold 2430 A3s, up from just 23 a year ago. 

Come to think of it, Mercedes-Benz sold an extra 1405 S-Classes and the aforementioned 372 extra CLS sedans while also adding 2722 CLAs, and while losing out on a large chunk of C-Class sales during a model transition.

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 now 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	August 2014	August 2013	% Change	2014 YTD	2013 YTD	%  Change
Audi A7 *	682	719	-5.1%	5798	5404	7.3%
Audi A8	436	539	-19.1%	3573	4090	-12.6%
BMW 6-Series *	468	760	-38.4%	6185	6391	-3.2%
BMW 7-Series	529	924	-42.7%	5784	6850	-15.6%
Jaguar XJ	385	499	-22.8%	3012	3624	-16.9%
Lexus LS	758	900	-15.8%	5336	6808	-21.6%
Mercedes-Benz CLS-Class *	1150	778	47.8%	5049	5015	0.7%
Mercedes-Benz S-Class	1855	450	312%	15,006	7238	107%
Porsche Panamera	429	454	-5.5%	3945	3473	13.6%
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Total	6692	6023	11.1%	53,688	48,893	9.8%

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 August 2014 were 102, 175, 59, 14 and 75, respectively. Tesla, unfortunately, doesn't release model-specific monthly U.S. sales data, but HybridCars.com estimates 1200 August Tesla sales, 10,600 YTD.

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