{"id":20305,"date":"2019-01-10T09:30:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T09:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=20305"},"modified":"2019-12-13T15:41:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T15:41:28","slug":"americas-best-selling-luxury-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/business\/innovation-business\/americas-best-selling-luxury-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s best-selling luxury cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crossovers dominate the list, but\u00a0America&#8217;s best-selling luxury vehicle during 2018 is somewhat of a surprise.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s Tesla company has achieved an important landmark for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/business\/innovation-business\/paving-the-way-for-a-profitable-mass-market-for-evs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">electric vehicles (EVs)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite\u00a0EVs\u00a0accounting for a mere 1.12% of total vehicle sales and many doubting whether Tesla&#8217;s success can be sustained, the company has pulled through, producing 145,846 Model 3s in 2018, and selling an estimated 138,000 of them in the United States, making it\u00a0the best-selling luxury vehicle in the United States during 2018.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ca.news.yahoo.com\/best-selling-luxury-cars-suvs-171000198\/photo-p-2018-wasnt-best-luxury-photo-171214221.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Data from automotive magazine Car and Driver published by Yahoo! News<\/a> put the Lexus RX as the runner up with 111,641 models sold, while the BMW 3 and 4 series came in third with sales totaling 75,957 vehicles.<\/p>\n<h2><a style=\"font-size: 16px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/16948\/total-number-of-premium-cars-sold-in-the-us\/\">[ihc-hide-content ihc_mb_type=&#8221;show&#8221; ihc_mb_who=&#8221;3,4,5,6&#8243; ihc_mb_template=&#8221;3&#8243; ]<\/a><\/h2>\n<h1>Not a cheap car<\/h1>\n<p>The cheapest version of the Model 3 car now starts at $42,900 before incentives, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/executive-interviews\/elon-musk-now-has-even-more-time-for-re-invention\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CEO Elon Musk<\/a> has claimed it could cost up to $35,000 when $8,000 credits and fuel savings are added in.<\/p>\n<p>Many observers have disagreed with pricing and the varying cost of electricity. Still, the pricing is moving in the right direction towards the unsubsidized $35,000 Tesla wants for the Model 3.<\/p>\n<p>Competitors Porsche and Audi are still expected to launch new lines of electric vehicles this year, so the competition will be fierce.<\/p>\n<p>Will the coming mobility revolution make urban traffic congestion better or worse? McKinsey investigates. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/business\/innovation-business\/the-future-of-urban-mobility\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/16948\/total-number-of-premium-cars-sold-in-the-us\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20306 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Captura-de-pantalla-2019-02-11-a-las-17.41.34.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Captura-de-pantalla-2019-02-11-a-las-17.41.34-200x141.png 200w, http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Captura-de-pantalla-2019-02-11-a-las-17.41.34-300x212.png 300w, http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Captura-de-pantalla-2019-02-11-a-las-17.41.34-400x282.png 400w, http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Captura-de-pantalla-2019-02-11-a-las-17.41.34-500x353.png 500w, http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Captura-de-pantalla-2019-02-11-a-las-17.41.34-600x423.png 600w, http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Captura-de-pantalla-2019-02-11-a-las-17.41.34.png 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><a style=\"font-size: 16px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/16948\/total-number-of-premium-cars-sold-in-the-us\/\">[\/ihc-hide-content]<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crossovers dominate the list, but\u00a0America&#8217;s best-selling luxury vehicle during 2018  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":20307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1069,46],"tags":[1826,2524,1827,99,1385,177,2523],"class_list":["post-20305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-innovation-business","tag-best-selling-luxury-cars","tag-best-selling-luxury-vehicles","tag-cars","tag-ceo","tag-ceo-northam","tag-tesla","tag-tesla-model-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20305"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22863,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20305\/revisions\/22863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}