What Premium Car Maker Is The Sales Increase Leader Over The Last 5 years?

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.

Source: Automotive News