Sporty Car Sales In Canada - September 2016 YTD

One year ago, Canadian sales of American muscle coupes – Camaro, Challenger, Mustang – were 75% lower in September 2015, at the end of the sports car buying season, than in May 2015, when sports car buying peaks.

But this year, September 2016 Detroit muscle coupe sales jumped 56% compared with September 2015, and the sports car buying season continued. Still down 60% compared with May 2015 totals, the figures achieved by Chevrolet, Dodge, and Ford were far more impressive than we would expect given the time of year.

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Canada Vehicle Sales Rankings By Model - September 2016 YTD
Canada Car Sales Rankings By Model - September 2016 YTD

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Year-over-year, Chevrolet Camaro sales doubled as General Motors attempts to clear the way for incoming 2017s. Dodge Challenger sales more than doubled to 200 units – the Challenger leads the Camaro by 494 units so far this year. And sales of the Ford Mustang, Canada's top-selling sports coupe, jumped 24% to a class-leading 523 units, 65 more than the Camaro and Challenger combined.

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The Audi TT's fiery sales pace continued with a segment-leading 39 sales via a 39% year-over-year jump in September 2016. 

September was also a high-volume month for the Subaru WRX/STI, new Infiniti Q60, the Chevrolet Corvette, and the Volkswagen Golf GTI.

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. Mobile users can now thumb across the tables for full-width access. Suggestions on how GCBC should break down segments can be passed on through the Contact page.

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American Muscle	September 2016	September 2015	% Change	2016 YTD	2015 YTD	% Change
Chevrolet Camaro	258	126	105%	2272	2347	-3.2%
Dodge Challenger	200	82	144%	2766	2379	16.3%
Ford Mustang	523	422	23.9%	6820	5916	15.3%
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Total	981	630	55.7%	11,858	10,642	11.4%

Euro Sports Cars	September 2016	September 2015	% Change	2016 YTD	2015 YTD	% Change
Alfa Romeo 4C	1	19	-94.7%	54	93	-41.9%
Audi TT	39	28	39.3%	520	160	225%
BMW Z4	13	2	550%	92	92	0.0%
Jaguar F-Type	27	29	-6.9%	451	382	18.1%
Mercedes-Benz SLK/SLC	24	18	33.3%	244	237	3.0%
Porsche Boxster	15	13	15.4%	302	299	1.0%
Porsche Cayman	16	33	-51.5%	301	226	33.2%
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Total	135	142	-4.9%	1964	1489	31.9%

Misc. Sporty Cars	September 2016	September 2015	% Change	2016 YTD	2015 YTD	% Change
Audi A5 *	122	152	-19.7%	1228	1347	-8.8%
BMW 1-Series *	---	---	---	---	3	-100%
BMW 2-Series *	149	143	4.2%	1645	1186	38.7%
Chevrolet Corvette	248	96	158%	1491	1555	-4.1%
Fiat 124 Spider	63	---	---	169	---	---
Honda CR-Z	5	2	150%	32	48	-33.3%
Hyundai Genesis Coupe	59	65	-9.2%	800	882	-9.3%
Infiniti Q60 *	106	54	96.3%	136	364	-62.6%
Lexus RC	59	72	-18.1%	421	694	-39.3%
Mazda MX-5 Miata	40	108	-63.0%	848	531	59.7%
Nissan 370Z	78	75	4.0%	828	556	48.9%
Scion FR-S/Toyota 86	96	118	-18.6%	919	1121	-18.0%
Subaru BRZ	70	40	75.0%	612	704	-13.1%
Subaru Impreza WRX/STi *	365	305	19.7%	3232	2401	34.6%
Volkswagen Eos	---	30	-100%	50	398	-87.4%
Volkswagen GTI *	213	172	23.8%	2051	2044	0.3%
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Total	1673	1432	16.8%	14,462	13,834	4.5%

Premium Sporty Cars	September 2016	September 2015	% Change	2016 YTD	2015 YTD	% Change
Acura NSX	8	---	---	13	---	---
Audi R8	17	1	1600%	128	86	48.8%
Bentley Continental GT	5	4	25.0%	46	75	-38.7%
Cadillac ELR	---	1	-100%	8	25	-68.0%
Dodge Viper	---	1	-100%	40	106	-62.3%
Jaguar XK	---	---	---	---	24	-100%
Maserati GranTurismo	3	3	0.0%	59	60	-1.7%
Mercedes-AMG GT	21	10	110%	152	101	50.5%
Mercedes-Benz SL-Class	26	12	117%	167	244	-31.6%
Nissan GT-R	19	15	26.7%	128	109	17.4%
Porsche 911	45	65	-30.8%	829	705	17.6%
Porsche 918 Spyder	---	---	---	1	18	-94.4%
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Total	144	112	28.6%	1571	1553	1.2%

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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