Say what you will about Forbes’ coverage of the auto industry (spotty at times) or love of lists (oh, does Forbes love its lists)...but when a brand makes the cut – people listen.

This time around, at least it isn’t a made up list of the ‘sexiest cars’ or some such. This latest list is the best selling luxury cars. Hard facts dominate – but Forbes still manages to mangle the results by making subjective decisions on what brands qualify as luxury.

Cadillac made the cut and managed to put 3 nameplates in the top 10.

The list and its 2006 sales total are listed below:

1. BMW 3-Series (107016)


2. Lexus RX (95569)


3. Lexus ES (67251)


4. Acura TL (65503)


5. Cadillac Escalade (54163)


6. Cadillac DTS (54053)


7. Infiniti G (53008)


8. Cadillac CTS (50024)


9. BMW 5-Series (49296)


10. Lexus IS (48729)

Check out the article and the ‘logic’ behind how they determined a luxury brand (its obvious they had a length the article needed to be since the author decides to tell you how they excluded Maybach, Ferrari, and Aston Martin – even though their entire brand wouldn’t have cracked the top 10 rankings) at:

Forbes.com: Best-Selling Luxury Cars 2006

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