Top luxury brands have luxury of growing lineups

摘要

When it comes to winning share in the ultracompetitive luxury car market, it helps to have more models on sale than your competitors. The 2014 sales champion, BMW, offered more models - 27 - than any of its competitors. Audi was second with 25, followed by Mercedes-Benz with 19, Lexus with 16 and Cadillac with 12. All other luxury brands were in single digits, according to numbers supplied by Edmunds.com. Spurred by aggressive product offensives, the leaders' showrooms are getting even fuller in 2015. BMW's model count jumps to 35 for 2015. Those include variants that hit niches other brands can't match. The 3 series, for example, comes as a sedan, wagon and Gran Turismo four-door hatchback, not to mention the M performance version.