Best-Selling Cars

Welcome to Driving By Numbers, where Canadian automotive sales analyst Tim Cain explores the world af Canadian car sales data. Cain provides the most up to date and thorough examinations of the best-selling and worst-selling vehicles on the Canadian car market and breaks it down into interesting segments, trends, and historical perspective. If you are passionate about cars or just need reliable data to aid in making knowledgeable buying decisions, we have a wealth of insightful articles that help you understand what sells, and why.

Canada's 10 best-selling luxury auto brands in 2026's first-half

Through the first half of 2026, the best-selling premium auto brand is not a German marque

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2026 Lexus RZ 550e

Canada's 10 worst-selling vehicles in 2026's first-half

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2026 Honda Prelude

Canada's best-selling cars, trucks, SUVs, auto brands in 2026's first-half

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2026 Honda Civic

8 Models quickly axed by automakers when Canada's market shifted

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The 2022 Mazda MX-30 BEV

Best and worst starts for Canadian auto brands in 2026's first-quarter

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2026 Subaru Outback XT Premier

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Canada's Best-Selling Cars, Trucks, SUVs, and Brands in 2026's First-Quarter

The start of 2026 was the best first-quarter ever for Hyundai, Volkswagen, and Volvo

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Timothy Cain April 23, 2026 Best-Selling Cars
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Was there a minivan sales boom in Canada in 2025?

Minivans’ collective share of the market – 2.2% in 2025 – represented a five-year high

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Timothy Cain March 27, 2026 Best-Selling Cars
How many vehicles—and which—were made in Canada in 2025?

Canadian factories built 1.2 million new vehicles in 2025, a 10% drop from 2024 levels

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Timothy Cain March 5, 2026 Best-Selling Cars
Canada's 10 best-selling luxury auto brands in 2025

The 10 brands on this list produced 10.9% of Canada’s auto sales

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Timothy Cain February 25, 2026 Best-Selling Cars
10 Worst-selling vehicles in Canada in 2025

We take a look at the lowest-volume vehicles and the steepest declines in 2025

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Timothy Cain January 27, 2026 Best-Selling Cars

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Canada's best-selling cars, trucks, SUVs, auto brands in 2025

In 2025, 1.9 million new vehicles sold in Canada; check out the most popular nameplates

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Timothy Cain January 13, 2026 Best-Selling Cars
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Best-Selling Cars: Canadian-built Toyota RAV4, Honda Civic to end 2025 as Canada's best sellers

While the rankings tell us who won, their assembly locations announce that they’ll almost certainly keep winning

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Timothy Cain December 3, 2025 Best-Selling Cars
Rust In Peace: 23 Vehicles Discontinued in 2025

A few BMWs go bye-bye while some Nissans are no more—from luxury SUVs to affordable compacts, these cars won't see 2026

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Timothy Cain November 21, 2025 Best-Selling Cars
10 Vehicles that haven't been redesigned in 9+ years

Redesigns – who needs 'em? If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it

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Timothy Cain October 22, 2025 Best-Selling Cars
Canada's 5 best-selling trucks, SUVs, cars, brands in 2025's first three-quarters

The automotive world is ever-changing, but Canadians continue to buy new vehicles; check out their favourites

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Timothy Cain October 16, 2025 Best-Selling Cars

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Best Selling Cars: Canada's 20 best-selling SUVs in 2025's first half

The new-car market in Canada is absolutely dominated by sport-utilities in a range of sizes—these 20 sit on top of the pile

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Timothy Cain October 2, 2025 Best-Selling Cars
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10 EVs getting hit hardest in Canada's changing EV landscape

How much did Canada’s federal government incentives inflate electric vehicle demand?

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Timothy Cain September 3, 2025 Best-Selling Cars
Canada's 5 best-selling luxury vehicles, auto brands in 2025's first half

Canada’s 20 best-selling premium brand vehicles during the first-half of 2025 were SUVs

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Timothy Cain August 20, 2025 Best-Selling Cars
Best-Selling Cars: 10 American-made vehicles that took off in 2025

Many U.S.-built vehicles enjoyed serious sales improvements north of the border

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Timothy Cain August 7, 2025 Best-Selling Cars
Canada's worst-selling vehicles in 2025's first-half

We've rounded up the 10 lowest-volume vehicles during 2025’s first six months and 10 that experienced the worst year-over-year declines

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Timothy Cain July 22, 2025 Best-Selling Cars

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Canada's best-selling cars, trucks, SUVs, auto brands in the first half of 2025

Auto sales grew by more than 4% in the first-half of 2025 relative to the equivalent period one year earlier

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Timothy Cain July 15, 2025 Best-Selling Cars
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Province-by-Province Auto Sales in Canada in Early 2025

Which parts of the country are back to normal, and which aren’t?

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Timothy Cain June 12, 2025 Best-Selling Cars
Best Selling Cars: 5 Vehicles, 5 auto brands kicking off 2025 with a bang

These five vehicles and five auto brands produced the hottest starts of the year

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Timothy Cain May 14, 2025 Best-Selling Cars
10 best-selling made-in-Canada vehicles

Canada's Canadian-made best sellers in the first quarter of 2025

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Timothy Cain May 8, 2025 Best-Selling Cars
Best-Selling Cars: Canada's 11 most popular made-in-America vehicles

Canada imported $35.6 billion in vehicles from the U.S. in 2024—these cars and trucks led the pack in almost a dozen segments

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Timothy Cain April 23, 2025 Best-Selling Cars

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Canada's best-selling cars, trucks, SUVs, auto brands in 2025's first quarter

Unfortunately, first-quarter auto sales results won't tell us much about what to expect in the second-quarter

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Timothy Cain April 17, 2025 Best-Selling Cars
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5 Winning automotive segments—and 5 losers—in Canada in 2024

Five Canadian automotive segments that are trending up, and five that are trending in the wrong direction

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Timothy Cain March 25, 2025 Best-Selling Cars
Best-Selling Cars: World's 5 best-selling vehicles and brands in 2024

Not only are the planet's five most popular new cars and trucks big hits in Canada, too, two of them are even built here

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Timothy Cain March 19, 2025 Best-Selling Cars
Best-Selling Cars: Canada's 10 best-selling luxury auto brands in 2024

A decade ago, Mercedes-Benz topped Canada’s premium brand sales chart, but drops to fourth place for 2024

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Timothy Cain February 26, 2025 Best-Selling Cars
Best-Selling Cars: Canadian automotive production in 2024

What, and how many vehicles is each Canadian plant producing?

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Timothy Cain February 20, 2025 Best-Selling Cars

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Canada's 10 Worst-Selling Vehicles in 2024

Not all vehicles can be best-sellers, check out the worst-sellers by volume, as well as year-over-year sales declines

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Timothy Cain January 25, 2025 Best-Selling Cars
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5 Collapsing automobile segments in Canada

Canadians want new vehicles, just not the kind of vehicles that originate in one of these five segments

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Timothy Cain December 18, 2024 Best-Selling Cars
Honda Civic returns as Canada's best-selling car in 2024

After two years of trailing behind the Toyota Corolla, the Honda Civic is back on top

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Timothy Cain December 14, 2024 Best-Selling Cars
Best-Selling Cars: Quebec's 10 best-selling electric vehicles in 2024

Quebec doesn’t just incentivize buyers; La Belle Province requires auto manufacturers to meet EV goals

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Timothy Cain December 11, 2024 Best-Selling Cars
Rust In Peace: All the Vehicles Discontinued in 2024

The list features a mix of both long-running models that no longer have what it takes and relative newbies that never stood a chance

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Timothy Cain November 26, 2024 Experts

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