In the United States, BMW cars outsell its crossover trucks by more than 3-to-1, AutoData said.
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Through November, Nissan Leaf sales in the United States were 8, 720, according to AutoData Corp.
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Nissan averaged 7.9 percent U.S. share in 2012, down from 8.2 percent in 2011, according to AutoData.
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Autodata only began tracking crossover sales in 1995, when the industry sold a grand total of 8, 017.
In 2012 through August, U.S. sales had nearly doubled to 6, 281, according to AutoData, Woodcliff Lake, N.
In September, only 426 Hummers were sold nationwide, according to Autodata Corp.
About 264, 000 midsize pickups were sold in the U.S. in 2012, compared with 1.6 million large trucks, according to researcher AutoData Corp.
Both companies' overall sales are down 5.2% through March, according to Autodata.
The seasonally adjusted annual rate of sales in November was 13.6 million units, up from 12.28 million in November 2010, according to Autodata.
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In the United States, sales for the BMW brand were around 150, 000 after seven months, up about 9 percent, according to AutoData Corp.
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Cadillac sold just under 47, 000 CTS models, according to Autodata Corp.
In the U.S., Ford has been losing market share, down 1.3 percentage points so far this year, to 15.5 percent, according to market researchers AutoData.
Year to date, sales of passenger cars and light trucks are up 10.4 percent from a year earlier, according to market research firm Autodata Corp.
They rose by nearly 10 percent over figures posted last September and are up by the same amount so far this year, according to numbers crunched by AutoData Corp.
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According to monthly sales figures compiled by Autodata, Audi is closing in on BMW and Mercedes in the race to sell the most luxury cars on the market this year.
It has resisted dialing up its cash and cheap financing plans even though its share of the American market dropped even further, to 16.4 percent in March, according to Autodata.
But BMW points out that the AutoData Corp. sales statistics for Mercedes-Benz included nearly 15, 000 Sprinter vans that are commonly used as commercial vehicles, like delivery vans, hotel or airport shuttles.
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The hottest-selling segments in the auto business should continue to be fuel-efficient small and midsize cars and crossover SUVs (including compact models), which combined account for around two-thirds of all new-vehicle sales according to Autodata.com.
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