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Through four months of 2013, the Fiat 500 has outsold the Mini Cooper by 637 units; the Chevrolet Camaro is 2076 sales ahead of the Ford Mustang and 7803 sales ahead of the Dodge Challenger; and the Porsche Boxster is 21 units out in front of the Mercedes-Benz SLK, and it's also outselling the Audi TT and BMW Z4 combined.
Three very different groups go a long ways in telling the story of where American new car buyers spend their money when they're looking for something that isn't a Ford F-150 or Toyota Camry or Honda CR-V.
All the cars you see here combined to sell 52,358 copies last month. That equals 4.07% of the new vehicle market's April 2013 volume. Compare that with the Ford F-Series' 4.59% to get a true picture of the grilles you see coming toward you on the highway.
You can click any model name in the tables below to find historical monthly and yearly U.S. sales data. You can also select a make and model at GCBC's Sales Stats page. These tables are now sortable, so you can rank available U.S. sporty car sales figures any which way you like. Suggestions on how GCBC should break down segments can be passed on through the Contact page.
Click Column Headers To Sort - April 2014 - May 2013 - March 2013 - April 2012
Source: Manufacturers & ANDC
* indicates a vehicle which is also shown in another GCBC segment breakdown
** breakdown by variant
Clearly GoodCarBadCar is not suggesting that the cars in the two tables above are all direct competitors. Establishing categories among cars as unique as even the Audi TT and Porsche Boxster has never pleased a single reader, so cars have been lumped together so you can simply see how buyers looking for sports cars, roadsters, hot hatches, convertibles, GTs, and wanna-be sports cars spend their money. Greater categorization of cars would only lead to problems that automakers create by not isolating model-specific sales figures: we don't know how many M3s BMW has sold or how many Civics are Si models, for example. The numbers we do have are listed above. GoodCarBadCar is always open to hearing about the ways you would break down segments, so feel free to get in touch.
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U.S. Auto Sales Brand Rankings - April 2013
Top 20 Best-Selling Cars In America - April 2013
- Sporty Car Sales Figures In America - September 2013 Ytd
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- Sporty Car Sales Figures In America - July 2013 Ytd
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- Sporty Car Sales Figures In America - June 2013 Ytd
Click Chart For Larger ViewIn its second month of U.S. availability, sales of the Jaguar F-Type shot up 162% to 417 sales. BMW sold less than half that many Z4s, Audi TT sales were lower than the Z4's total, and the F-Type outsold the Mercedes-Benz...
- Sporty Car Sales Figures In America - May 2013 Ytd
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- Sporty Car Sales In America - March 2013
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Sporty Car Sales Figures In America - April 2013 And Year-To-Date
Three very different groups go a long ways in telling the story of where American new car buyers spend their money when they're looking for something that isn't a Ford F-150 or Toyota Camry or Honda CR-V.
All 149 Cars Ranked By April 2013 & YTD U.S. Sales
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You can click any model name in the tables below to find historical monthly and yearly U.S. sales data. You can also select a make and model at GCBC's Sales Stats page. These tables are now sortable, so you can rank available U.S. sporty car sales figures any which way you like. Suggestions on how GCBC should break down segments can be passed on through the Contact page.
Click Column Headers To Sort - April 2014 - May 2013 - March 2013 - April 2012
Sporty Car | April 2013 | % Change | Year To Date | YTD % Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Audi A5 * | 1809 | + 27.4% | 5810 | + 13.2% |
Audi TT | 170 | - 17.9% | 633 | - 16.0% |
BMW 1-Series * | 626 | - 15.5% | 1917 | - 32.4% |
BMW Z4 | 230 | - 17.3% | 854 | - 3.8% |
Chevrolet Camaro | 7949 | - 17.4% | 27,147 | - 14.0% |
Chevrolet Corvette | 974 | - 30.2% | 3915 | - 9.5% |
Dodge Challenger | 4804 | + 17.1% | 19,344 | + 32.3% |
Fiat 500 * | 3899 | + 1.3% | 13,511 | + 6.4% |
Ford Mustang | 7751 | - 0.6% | 25,071 | - 10.2% |
Honda CR-Z | 405 | + 21.3% | 1595 | - 6.1% |
Hyundai Veloster * | 3120 | - 2.3% | 9477 | - 20.8% |
Infiniti G37 Coupe/Convertible * | 794 | - 8.9% | 3326 | - 20.8% |
Mazda MX-5 Miata | 612 | - 11.6% | 1847 | - 13.9% |
Mercedes-Benz SLK | 451 | - 3.4% | 1585 | + 1.7% |
Mini Cooper * | 3827 | - 8.8% | 12,874 | - 9.6% |
Mini Cooper Hardtop ** | 2469 | - 5.8% | 8859 | - 6.2% |
Mini Cooper Clubman ** | 400 | - 21.3% | 1238 | - 29.5% |
Mini Cooper Convertible ** | 507 | - 2.7% | 1226 | - 18.4% |
Mini Cooper Coupe ** | 168 | - 42.1% | 613 | - 40.3% |
Mini Cooper Roadster ** | 283 | + 9.7% | 938 | + 83.2% |
Mitsubishi Eclipse | 12 | - 91.5% | 54 | - 91.1% |
Nissan 370Z | 568 | - 27.6% | 1946 | - 31.7% |
Porsche Boxster | 496 | + 1278% | 1795 | + 1210% |
Porsche Cayman | 394 | + 488% | 457 | + 30.9% |
Scion FR-S | 1629 | ----- | 6269 | ----- |
Scion tC * | 1401 | - 30.2% | 5540 | - 23.5% |
Subaru BRZ | 812 | ----- | 2600 | ----- |
Subaru Impreza WRX * | 1508 | + 11.5% | 6027 | + 44.2% |
Volkswagen Beetle * | 3679 | + 78.2% | 13,689 | + 103% |
Volkswagen Beetle Hardtop ** | 1980 | - 4.1% | 9300 | + 38.0% |
Volkswagen Beetle Convertible ** | 1699 | ----- | 4389 | ----- |
Volkswagen Eos | 487 | - 33.7% | 1464 | - 32.9% |
Volkswagen GTI * | 1023 | - 40.4% | 4098 | - 30.7% |
Volkswagen Golf R * | 149 | - 57.7% | 840 | - 22.7% |
Volvo C70 | 224 | - 44.8% | 824 | - 46.5% |
Premium Sporty Car | April 2013 | % Change | Year To Date | YTD % Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Audi R8 | 71 | - 22.8% | 238 | - 29.0% |
BMW 6-Series | 760 | + 48.1% | 2831 | + 28.1% |
Jaguar XK | 109 | - 3.5% | 550 | - 17.5% |
Lexus LFA | 6 | + 20.0% | 15 | - 21.1% |
Mercedes-Benz CL-Class | 37 | - 41.3% | 192 | - 29.7% |
Mercedes-Benz SL-Class | 938 | + 275% | 2422 | + 366% |
Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG | 46 | - 55.8% | 165 | - 57.7% |
Nissan GT-R | 103 | - 12.7% | 371 | + 7.8% |
Porsche 911 | 891 | - 18.3% | 3613 | + 16.8% |
SRT (Dodge) Viper | 60 | ----- | 64 | + 220% |
* indicates a vehicle which is also shown in another GCBC segment breakdown
** breakdown by variant
Clearly GoodCarBadCar is not suggesting that the cars in the two tables above are all direct competitors. Establishing categories among cars as unique as even the Audi TT and Porsche Boxster has never pleased a single reader, so cars have been lumped together so you can simply see how buyers looking for sports cars, roadsters, hot hatches, convertibles, GTs, and wanna-be sports cars spend their money. Greater categorization of cars would only lead to problems that automakers create by not isolating model-specific sales figures: we don't know how many M3s BMW has sold or how many Civics are Si models, for example. The numbers we do have are listed above. GoodCarBadCar is always open to hearing about the ways you would break down segments, so feel free to get in touch.
RECOMMENDED READING
Sporty Car Sales In America - April 2014 YTD
Sporty Car Sales In America - May 2013 YTD
Sporty Car Sales In America - March 2013
Sporty Car Sales In America - April 2012
U.S. Auto Sales Brand Rankings - April 2013
Top 20 Best-Selling Cars In America - April 2013
- Sporty Car Sales Figures In America - September 2013 Ytd
As Sales Of The MK6 Golf's R Version Wind Down, Volkswagen Has Already Shown The Next Golf R39.5% of Porsche USA's September 2013 volume was generated by the brand's three sports cars. That's up from 27.8% a year ago, when the first-generation...
- Sporty Car Sales Figures In America - July 2013 Ytd
By beating the Ford Mustang by 2201 units in July 2013, the Chevrolet Camaro took back its place as the best-selling muscle car in America on year-to-date terms. At the end of June, the Mustang was ahead by 799 units. One year ago, the Camaro...
- Sporty Car Sales Figures In America - June 2013 Ytd
Click Chart For Larger ViewIn its second month of U.S. availability, sales of the Jaguar F-Type shot up 162% to 417 sales. BMW sold less than half that many Z4s, Audi TT sales were lower than the Z4's total, and the F-Type outsold the Mercedes-Benz...
- Sporty Car Sales Figures In America - May 2013 Ytd
Jaguar USA sold its first 159 F-Type roadsters in May 2013. The F-Type is tweener-priced: too expensive to be a direct Porsche Boxster rival; perhaps not prestigious enough to be a direct Porsche 911 alternative. We've left the XK with the premium-priced...
- Sporty Car Sales In America - March 2013
U.S. passenger car sales fell 1.2% in March 2013. Not surprisingly, some of the cars which contributed to this decline were low-volume coupes, convertibles, roadsters, and sports cars. Two, the Chevrolet Camaro and Ford Mustang, were high-volume American...