Sporty Car Sales In Canada - March 2014 YTD
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Sporty Car Sales In Canada - March 2014 YTD


2014 Alfa Romeo 4C
Ford Canada sold fewer Mustangs in March 2014 than in March 2013, a not unexpected event given the car's forthcoming replacement, but the Mustang still easily outsold its two most direct rivals.

Canada sports car sales chart March 2014
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Camaro sales doubled, year-over-year, but only from a dreadfully low-volume March in 2013. Last month, Camaro sales were down 15% compared with March 2012. The Dodge Challenger is slightly less popular this year than last year, and together with the Camaro's rise, is not the number two seller in the category as it was at this time last year.

Mercedes-Benz Canada sold 51 SLK roadsters in March, which represents a three-unit year-over-year decline. The SLK managed, nevertheless, to outsell the Audi TT, BMW Z4, Jaguar F-Type, and Porsche's combined Boxster/Cayman efforts. And the Mazda MX-5 Miata.

• All 242 Vehicles Ranked By March 2014 YTD Canadian Sales
• All 148 Cars Ranked By March 2014 YTD Canadian Sales

Mazda is planning on replacing the MX-5 soon, but the New York Auto Show isn't the venue for its debut. Mazda instead showed the new MX-5's underpinnings and a 25th anniversary edition of the current third-gen Miata. We're long past the point at which the world's most popular roadster needed to be replaced: Canadian MX-5 sales in 2013 were down 69% compared with the 1814 sold in 2007, a year in which Mazda also sold 659 copies of the RX-8.

2014 Mazda MX-5 Miata 25th anniversary
Some of the cars you see below will have some very low-volume Italian competition in 2015. Alfa Romeo will sell the 4C in Canada - Chrysler Canada said so in a press release, and we've included an image above. But we've not yet been told out of which stores the Alfa will be marketed. Fiat locations? The odd Maserati showroom? Alongside the... er, Ram 1500 Ecodiesel?

In the United Kingdom, a basic 4C has a base price that's 16% higher than the base price of a Porsche Boxster, 12% less than the base price of a Jaguar F-Type Coupe. If that were to hold true in Canada - and we're not saying it will - the 4C will start somewhere between $64,000 and $65,000 here. (Using the same foundation, U.S. pricing for the Alfa Romeo 4C would begin between $57,000 and $60,000.)

You can click any model name in the tables below to find historical monthly and yearly Canadian auto 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 sports cars, roadsters, convertibles, and wannabe hot hatches 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 • March 2015 • April 2014 • February 2014 • March 2013
Sporty Car
March
2014
March
2013
%
Change
2014
YTD
2013
YTD
%
Change
Chevrolet Camaro
260
130100%394 29334.5%
Dodge Challenger
292
23922.2%387 392-1.3%
Ford Mustang
448
505-11.3%7457351.4%
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Total
1000
87414.4%1526 1420 7.5%

Sporty Car
March
2014
March
2013
%
Change
2014
YTD
2013
YTD
%
Change
Audi TT
34
40-15.0%5968-13.2%
BMW Z4
22
2010.0%372548.0%
Jaguar F-Type
47
------95 ------
Mercedes-Benz SLK
51
54-5.6%81 775.2%
Porsche Boxster
26
48-45.8%48 81-40.7%
Porsche Cayman
22
------37 5640%
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Total
202
16224.7%357 256 39.5%

Other Sporty Cars
March
2014
March
2013
%
Change
2014
YTD
2013
YTD
%
Change
Audi A5 *
235
258-8.9%456471-3.2%
BMW 1-Series *
1
13-92.3%2357-99.4%
BMW 2-Series *
47
------47------
BMW 4-Series *
164
------388------
Chevrolet Corvette
107
14664%29338 671%
Chrysler 200 Convertible *
---
94 -100%12 127 -90.6%
Honda CR-Z
6
8-25.0%14 15 -6.7%
Hyundai Genesis Coupe
142
170-16.5%259289-10.4%
Infiniti G37 Coupe/Convertible & Q60
37
68-45.6%89128-30.5%
Lexus ISC *
14
25 -44.0%32 38 -15.8%
Lexus ISF *
4
5 -20.0%5 9 -44.4%
Mazda MX-5 Miata
38
49-22.4%128 8550.6%
Mitsubishi Eclipse
---
2-100%--- 3 -100%
Nissan 370Z
37
3215.6%62 4926.5%
Scion FR-S
105
161-34.8%212 365 -41.9%
Subaru BRZ
90
106-15.1%193 194-0.5%
Volkswagen Eos
42
62-32.3%67122-45.1%
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Total
1069
10670.2%2259 2290 -1.4%

Sporty Hatchbacks
March
2014
March
2013
%
Change
2014
YTD
2013
YTD
%
Change
Fiat 500 *
577
855-32.5%13791594 -13.5%
Hyundai Veloster *
292
403-27.5%619941 -34.2%
Mini Cooper *
223
374-40.4%358669 -46.5%
Scion tC *
87
102-14.7%182 211 -13.7%
Volkswagen Beetle *
144
234-38.5%356449 -20.7%
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Total
1323
1968-32.8%2894 3864 -25.1%

Premium Sporty Car
March
2014
March
2013
%
Change
2014
YTD
2013
YTD
%
Change
Audi R8
20
4400%289211%
Cadillac ELR
2
------3------
Dodge (SRT) Viper
10
------1911800%
Jaguar XK
6
15-60.0%13 20-35.0%
Lexus LFA
---
--------- 1-100%
Mercedes-Benz SL-Class
57
5014.0%74106-30.2%
Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG
1
8-87.5%7 15-53.3%
Nissan GT-R
28
1675.0%312240.9%
Porsche 911
73
704.3%120 162-25.9%
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Total
197
16320.9%295 336 -12.2%
Source: Automakers & ANDC
^ Mini sales include everything except the Countryman.
* also included in another GCBC segment breakdown
GCBC isn't here to break down segments, an impossible task for any group, but to display sales data for the sake of comparison. The more ways sales data can be displayed, the better, right? This explains why you'll see the Audi A5 here and with luxury cars, because readers have wanted it both ways. You can always find the sales results for EVERY vehicle and form your own competitive sets by using the All Vehicle Rankings posts. 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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