GM’s market share in Canada’s declining full-size SUV segment grew from 40.8% in 2004 to 43.4% in 2005. Canada’s overall new vehicle market grew by a little more than 3%, but especially towards the end of the year, high fuel prices drove sales of these big SUVs downward.
In December 2005, for example, Expedition sales plunged 30%, Tahoe sales were nearly cut in half, and Yukon volume was down 46%. At calendar year’s end, these nine big sport-utilities accounted for just 0.9% of all new vehicle sales, down from 1.2% a year earlier.
The 484 Excursions sold in 2005 were the final copies of Ford’s heavy-duty truck-based SUVs to leave the showrooms.
You can click any model name in the tables below to find historical monthly and yearly Canadian4 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 sport-utility vehicles any which way you like.
Click Column Headers To Sort • 2006 Year End
SUV
|
2005
|
2004
|
%
Change |
---|---|---|---|
1448
|
1650 | -12.2% | |
1468
|
1855 | -20.9% | |
4310
|
6394 | -32.6% | |
484
|
426 | 13.6% | |
2413
|
2992 | -19.4% | |
1871
|
2353 | -20.5% | |
1437
|
1722 | -16.6% | |
438
|
613 | -28.5% | |
477
|
562 | -15.1% | |
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|
—
|
— | — |
Total
|
14,346
|
18,567 | -22.7% |
Source: Automakers & ANDC
* The second-generation Durango straddled segments but was certainly at least as much of a Tahoe rival as it was a TrailBlazer alternative from the 2004 model year until the more car-like third-generation Durango was introduced.
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Large SUV Sales In Canada – 2006 Year End