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In a segment filled with drastic fluctuations and tastes which change faster than the tides, it's not a shock to see significant year-over-year gains and losses. For example, sales of the Audi TT jumped 88% in January 2012. Meanwhile, sales of the Porsche Boxster slid 74% from January 2011's 186 to January 2012's 48.
The Chevrolet Camaro was the most popular muscle car in America in January, just as it was in 2011 as a whole. Ford must start working at overcoming a 1973-unit deficit in order to end 2012 on a higher note than it began.
U.S. sporty car sales numbers now include figures for Subaru's WRX family and for Mini's ugly little Coupe. WRX numbers slid to 710 in January. The Coupe out-sold the Mini Convertible by 20 units to avoid being Mini's least popular sub-model. The Hyundai Veloster remains popular, out-selling the Scion tC by nearly 400 units in January. Volkswagen's GTI found four more buyers than did the model on which it's based, Volkswagen's Golf.
After the jump you can check out numbers for high-end sports cars, GTs, and coupes with an accompanying chart, as well as the first table which shows detailed January 2012 sales data for the cars in the above chart. Sales figures for all these models - monthly and yearly, Canadian and U.S. - can be accessed through the dropdown at the top right of this page or on the Sales Stats page.
Source: Manufacturers & ANDC
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.
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Sporty Car Sales And Premium Sporty Car Sales In America - January 2012
The Chevrolet Camaro was the most popular muscle car in America in January, just as it was in 2011 as a whole. Ford must start working at overcoming a 1973-unit deficit in order to end 2012 on a higher note than it began.
U.S. sporty car sales numbers now include figures for Subaru's WRX family and for Mini's ugly little Coupe. WRX numbers slid to 710 in January. The Coupe out-sold the Mini Convertible by 20 units to avoid being Mini's least popular sub-model. The Hyundai Veloster remains popular, out-selling the Scion tC by nearly 400 units in January. Volkswagen's GTI found four more buyers than did the model on which it's based, Volkswagen's Golf.
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| U.S. Sporty Car Sales Chart For January 2012 - Click For A Larger View |
Sporty Car | January 2012 | % Change |
Audi A5 | 878 | - 16.7% |
Audi TT | 182 | + 87.6% |
BMW Z4 | 104 | - 7.1% |
Chevrolet Camaro | 5709 | + 19.9% |
Chevrolet Corvette | 629 | - 12.8% |
Dodge Challenger | 2551 | + 1.0% |
Ford Mustang | 3736 | + 18.0% |
Honda CR-Z | 363 | - 59.4% |
Hyundai Veloster | 1693 | ----- |
Mazda MX-5 Miata | 306 | + 5.9% |
Mazda RX-8 | 18 | - 72.7% |
Mercedes-Benz SLK | 238 | + 18.4% |
Mini Coupe | 146 | ----- |
Mitsubishi Eclipse | 83 | - 39.9% |
Nissan 370Z | 417 | - 26.5% |
Porche Boxster | 48 | - 74.2% |
Porsche Cayman | 125 | - 1.6% |
Scion tC | 1309 | - 3.1% |
Subaru Impreza WRX | 710 | - 37.4% |
Volkswagen Eos | 365 | + 46.6% |
Volkswagen GTI | 1231 | + 27.0% |
Volkswagen Golf R | 192 | ----- |
Volvo C70 | 299 | + 36.5% |
Premium Sporty Car | January 2012 | % Change |
Audi R8 | 79 | 0% |
BMW 6-Series | 409 | + 393% |
Dodge Viper | 20 | - 67.7% |
Jaguar XK | 153 | - 8.9% |
Lexus LFA | 4 | 0% |
Mercedes-Benz CL-Class | 67 | - 37.4% |
Mercedes-Benz SL-Class | 100 | - 42.9% |
Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG | 92 | + 31.4% |
Nissan GT-R | 20 | - 9.1% |
Porsche 911 | 681 | + 56.2% |
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.
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