Sporty Car Sales In Canada - December 2015 And 2015 Year End

Ford Canada sold more Mustangs in calendar year 2015 than at any time since 2007, when the Mustang was not tested by the availability of a Chevrolet Camaro or a Dodge Challenger.

The arrival of the sixth-gen Mustang late in 2014 boosted sales by 24% in 2015 to 6933 units. Together, the sliding Chevrolet Camaro (which is being replaced in showrooms as we speak) and the Dodge Challenger (which jumped 64% to a five-year high) generated 5337 sales. Which is quite a bit less than the Mustang mustered.

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Canada Vehicle Sales Rankings By Model - 2015 Year End
Canada Car Sales Rankings By Model - 2015 Year End

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Outside of these vehicles, Canadian sports car totals are fairly low. The driving season is not particularly lengthy in most parts of the country when it comes to typically garaged vehicles like the Porsche Boxster and Audi R8. There were nevertheless highlights from diverse vehicles. 

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Porsche sold more Boxsters and Caymans in 2014 than in 2014; Jaguar F-Type growth continued, as well. BMW 2-Series sales nearly doubled. The Chevrolet Corvette jumped 45%. The new Mazda MX-5 Miata and the price-adjusted Nissan 370Z both posted meaningful increases. Subaru's all-weather WRX/STI line jumped 18% to 3107 units. Volkswagen Golf GTI volume increased 6% to 2625. And the Porsche 911's Canadian volume rose to an all-time high of 859 units.

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, coupes, GTs, roadsters, and convertibles 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 • January 2016 • November 2015 • December 2014

American Muscle	December 2015	December 2014	% Change	2015	2014	% Change
Chevrolet Camaro	77	61	26.2%	2668	2880	-7.4%
Dodge Challenger	83	92	-9.8%	2669	1623	64.4%
Ford Mustang	352	807	-56.4%	6933	5605	23.7%
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Total	512	960	-46.7%	12,270	10,108	21.4%

Euro Sports Cars	December 2015	December 2014	% Change	2015	2014	% Change
Alfa Romeo 4C	8	2	300%	122	2	6000%
Audi TT	14	1	1300%	251	289	-13.1%
BMW Z4	19	1	1800%	121	173	-30.1%
Jaguar F-Type	29	27	7.4%	462	457	1.1%
Mercedes-Benz SLK	10	14	-28.6%	270	369	-26.8%
Porsche Boxster	20	12	66.7%	360	360	0.0%
Porsche Cayman	31	8	288%	322	259	24.3%
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Total	131	65	101%	1908	1909	-0.1%

Misc. Sporty Cars	December 2015	December 2014	% Change	2015	2014	% Change
Audi A5 *	78	118	-33.9%	1693	2165	-21.8%
BMW 1-Series *	---	---	---	3	2	50.0%
BMW 2-Series *	174	40	335%	1703	883	92.9%
BMW 4-Series *	311	335	-7.2%	4942	3469	42.5%
Chevrolet Corvette	39	39	0.0%	1715	1181	45.2%
Chrysler 200 Convertible *	---	---	---	---	14	-100%
Honda CR-Z	---	6	-100%	55	100	-45.0%
Hyundai Genesis Coupe	32	48	-33.3%	1029	1514	-32.0%
Infiniti Q60 *	9	21	-57.1%	408	424	-3.8%
Lexus RC	27	22	22.7%	792	78	915%
Mazda MX-5 Miata	28	7	300%	630	511	23.3%
Nissan 370Z	34	21	61.9%	688	411	67.4%
Scion FR-S	51	41	24.4%	1329	1559	-14.8%
Subaru BRZ	26	33	-21.2%	800	922	-13.2%
Subaru Impreza WRX/STi *	203	161	26.1%	3107	2642	17.6%
Volkswagen Eos	11	37	-70.3%	438	459	-4.6%
Volkswagen GTI *	138	202	-31.7%	2625	2469	6.3%
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Total	1161	1131	2.6%	21,957	18,803	16.8%

Premium Sporty Cars	December 2015	December 2014	% Change	2015	2014	% Change
Audi R8	1	2	-50.0%	89	116	-23.3%
Cadillac ELR	---	3	-100%	25	44	-43.2%
Dodge Viper	2	6	-66.7%	110	107	2.8%
Jaguar XK	---	7	-100%	25	85	-70.6%
Lexus LFA	---	---	---	---	1	-100%
Mercedes-AMG GT	12	---	---	145	---	---
Mercedes-Benz SL-Class	9	11	-18.2%	281	344	-18.3%
Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG	---	1	-100%	---	38	-100%
Nissan GT-R	7	5	40.0%	130	125	4.0%
Porsche 911	48	42	14.3%	859	805	6.7%
Porsche 918 Spyder	3	1	200%	21	7	200%
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Total	82	78	5.1%	1685	1672	0.8%

Source: Automakers & Global Automakers Of Canada
^ 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. 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 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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