What Premium Car Maker Is The Sales Increase Leader Over The Last 5 years?
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With the Lexus rapid acceleration in the U
With the
Lexus rapid acceleration in the U.S.
marketplace, most of us probably would assume they would be the number one
choice to be leading the industry in 5 year sales gains. Actually you would be
wrong if you did.
While
Lexus has maintained a stellar growth chart for the last 5 years, both Porsche
and Infiniti outpaced the giant over a 5 year span starting in 2002.
Infiniti’s remarkable performance is in spite of a drop of over 11% in sales
from 2005 due to a stagnated model line up. With new models finally in
the pipeline Infiniti sales should pick up and continue forward at a blistering
rate for 2007.
A
startling revelation actually for the Spies was
the astonishing fall from grace of Jaguar with a 66.21% drop in sales over the
last 5 years. In 2002 Jaguar’s sales were almost triple that of Porsche
only to fall to 60% of the volume a mere 5 years later.
Overall
the sector in general grew an admirable 17.82% over the 5 year span in spite of
the overall automotive market actually dropping almost 2% for the same time
frame.
|
U.S. Market Premium Sales From 2002
to 2006
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2006
|
2002
|
Change
|
%
|
|
Porsche
|
34227
|
21318
|
12909
|
60.55%
|
|
Infiniti
|
121146
|
87911
|
33235
|
37.81%
|
|
Lexus
|
322434
|
234109
|
88325
|
37.73%
|
|
Acura
|
201223
|
165552
|
35671
|
21.55%
|
|
BMW
|
274432
|
232032
|
42400
|
18.27%
|
|
Mercedes
Benz
|
247934
|
213225
|
34709
|
16.28%
|
|
Audi
|
90116
|
85726
|
4390
|
5.12%
|
|
Volvo
|
115807
|
110670
|
5137
|
4.64%
|
|
Jaguar
|
20683
|
61204
|
-40521
|
-66.21%
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sector
|
1430008
|
1213749
|
216259
|
17.82%
|
Source:
Automotive News