Canada Full Year 2012: Now with Top 35 brands ranking available!

Kia is up from #11 brand in Canada in 2011 to #7 in 2012.

* See the Top 35 best-selling brands by clicking on the title! *

After the USA, I can now share with you a detailed brands ranking for Canada over the Full Year 2012. Ford is in the lead here too with a slightly higher market share at 16.1% thanks to 269,813 sales, albeit down from 16.9% in 2011. Toyota climbs into second place with sales up 19% to 171,174 and 10.2% share, passing Chevrolet down 8% to #3 and 138,990 units and now threatened by both Hyundai at 136,283 sales (+5%) and Honda at 131,558 units (+22%).

Acura is the #20 brand in Canada in 2012

Dodge is down 4% at #6 while Kia is up an outstanding 4 spots and 19% to #7 with 77,800 sales and 4.6%. Notice also Ram up 8% at #10, Volkswagen up 12% at #12, Subaru up 15% at #16, Chrysler up 59% to #17, Audi up 19% to #18, Acura up 12% to #20 and leader of the US-Japanese luxury divisions ahead of Lexus (#21) and Infiniti (#24), Fiat up 57% to #23, Scion up 23% to #28, Land Rover up 32% to #31 and Porsche up 36% to #32.

Full Year 2012 models: Canada Full Year 2012: Ford F-Series first vehicle at 100,000+ sales

Full Year 2012 Top 35 brands Ranking Table below.