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U.S. Car sales chart
The Cadillac article makes the claim "Cadillac automobiles are at the top of the luxury field within the United States" even though since around 2000 first Mercedes then BMW outsold it according to CarSalesBase U.S. car sales numbers.

I tried to use Commons' c:Template:SVG Chart to chart these numbers, see my attempt at c:User talk:Skierpage/Cadillac vs BMW USA car sales.svg, but that seems to require a similar scale in each direction. Meanwhile Graphs and charts here recommends Module:Chart, so try it here:

In a bar chart with 26 trios of values, the bars are too thin. If I stack, it's not clear when Mercedes then BMW overtake Cadillac, and these three are not the entire market. I really want to use a line chart, but "Graphs were disabled on 18 April 2023 due to a software issue."

Talk page scratch
I almost wrote this at Talk:Cadillac:

As of 2023-07-31, the intro says "Cadillac automobiles are at the top of the luxury field within the United States", with a citation of

that says no such thing!

Back in 2015, @Wikiuser100 changed to this claim from the far more reasonable "Historically, Cadillac automobiles have always been the luxury icon within the United States of America ." and then "Historically" went.

The fact is Cadillac only sold 134,703 cars in the USA in 2022; Statista says top luxury car brand in the U.S. in 2022 based on unit sales were Tesla, 484,000, BMW 328,000, Mercedes 269,000. GM Authority says the most Cadillacs sold in the last 13 years were 182,543 in 2013; CarSalesBase shows BMW has sold more cars than that in the USA since 2000. I found an NYT article from 2000 describing the shift. I think the best way to communicate this is with a graph but I struggle.

It would be nice to find a citation for "Historically, Cadillac automobiles have been the pinnacle of luxury cars in the United States.