UK Top 5 Executive Car Sales : 2004 -2016

This is an unusual category, with the C-Class and E-Class lumped together. Still, it does avoid yet another segment. Maybe with the gap between premium and mainstream now quite close they could be joined together but for continuity sake, it is what it is.

This is a popular area for the three pointed star as the two above mentioned models are for the most part 1 - 2. The 5 Series and A6 occasionally try muscle in on the leadership but have been largely unsuccessful. The Jaguar XF has been making an appearance lately but it does need a shooting brake variant although that still wouldn't take anywhere near the top.

The 100,000 sales mark is passed repeatedly and of late quite easily. There must be plenty of well heeled in the UK, especially the home counties. The category accounts for just under 5% of all sales.

	2004				2005
	Mercedes	C-Class	29,567		Mercedes	C-Class	29,071
	Mercedes	E-Class	17,676		BMW	5 Series	18,140
	BMW	5 Series	16,678		Mercedes	E-Class	14,620
	Volvo	V70/XC70	10,255		Audi	A6	11,016
	Mercedes	CLK	9,512		Volvo	70 Series	9,902
	Other	23.7%	25,979		Other	25.5%	28,363
	Total		109,667		Total		111,112
	2006				2007
	Mercedes	C-Class	24,189		Mercedes	C-Class	25,163
	BMW	5 Series	19,606		BMW	5 Series	19,974
	Audi	A6	12,029		Audi	A6	15,881
	Mercedes	E-Class	10,660		Mercedes	E-Class	13,147
	Volvo	70 Series	6,883		Mercedes	CLK	5,867
	Other	26.9%	26,972		Other	23.4%	24,436
	Total		100,339		Total		104,468
	2008				2009
	Mercedes	C-Class	26,057		Mercedes	C-Class	22,737
	BMW	5 Series	18,578		BMW	5 Series	14,257
	Audi	A6	13,178		Mercedes	E-Class	13,372
	Mercedes	E-Class	8,895		Jaguar	XF	10,108
	Jaguar	XF	8,893		Audi	A6	8,563
	Other	23.3%	22,971		Other	23.4%	21,077
	Total		98,572		Total		90,114
	2010				2011
	Mercedes	E-Class	23,133		Mercedes	C-Class	30,518
	Mercedes	C-Class	22,823		Mercedes	E-Class	24,621
	BMW	5 Series	16,121		BMW	5 Series	21,703
	Jaguar	XF	12,688		Audi	A6	10,770
	Audi	A6	10,531		Jaguar	XF	10,373
	Other	13.9%	13,783		Other	11.1%	12,261
	Total		99,079		Total		110,246
	2012				2013
	Mercedes	C-Class	37,261		Mercedes	C-Class	30,991
	Mercedes	E-Class	23,594		Mercedes	E-Class	28,833
	BMW	5 Series	21,566		BMW	5 Series	20,552
	Audi	A6	13,097		Audi	A6	15,017
	Jaguar	XF	11,726		Jaguar	XF	12,606
	Other	8.6%	10,048		Other	9.8%	11,746
	Total		117,292		Total		119,745
	2014				2015
	Mercedes	C-Class	31,525		Mercedes	C-Class	41,821
	Mercedes	E-Class	28,707		Mercedes	E-Class	26,634
	BMW	5 Series	21,511		BMW	5 Series	21,428
	Audi	A6	15,055		Audi	A6	15,787
	Jaguar	XF	13,646		Jaguar	XF	10,977
	Other	8.1%	9,703		Other	8.6%	11,019
	Total		120,147		Total		127,666
	2016
	Mercedes	C-Class	44,184
	Mercedes	E-Class	25,537
	BMW	5 Series	19,621
	Audi	A6	18,698
	Jaguar	XF	9,619
	Other	7.9%	10,145
	Total		127,804

Data source: SMMT.

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