Sporty Car Sales In Canada - October 2014 YTD

In BMW Canada's best ever Mini brand sales month, the Countryman was not responsible for massive volume generation. All the other Minis, the core Hardtop model most of all, combined for 627 sales in October 2014.


Canada Vehicle Sales Rankings By Model - October 2014 YTD
• Canada Car Sales Rankings By Model - October 2014 YTD


Canada sports car sales chart October 2014
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So, is the Mini fast enough to be part of a post which also showcases the Porsche 918 Spyder, Chevrolet Corvette, and Lexus ISF? Well, it's not slow. And even in new three-cylinder turbo form, it's fun. And on this continent, it's not the conventional small car purchase. Typically, it competes in  a niche category where "fun" and "style" are key, where practicality is set aside and paying slightly more isn't the worst thing in the world. 

Yet in October the numbers weren't tiny, the Mini Cooper range wasn't just a bit player in a niche market. The Mini was Canada's 33rd-best-selling car lineup in October 2014, up from 46th in October 2013. 

The Mini outsold conventional subcompacts like the Nissan Versa and conventional sporting cars like the Chevrolet Camaro, Dodge Challenger, and Ford Mustang combined

Will Mini sales remain at this level? No. But is the new, roomier, more efficient car more enticing to value-minded Canadian consumers despite the fact that it's lost its element of surprise? Yes.

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 • September 2014October 2013
American Muscle
October
2014
October
2013
%
Change
2014
YTD
2013
YTD
%
Change
112
7843.6%2742 204234.3%
90
36150%1421 1431-0.7%
172
228-24.6%45634799-4.9%
---
---
--------- --- ---
Total
374
3429.4%8726 8272 5.5%

Euro Sports Cars
October
2014
October
2013
%
Change
2014
YTD
2013
YTD
%
Change
9
29-69.0%275336-18.2%
27
10170%168227-26.0%
18
1428.6%384 20092.0%
46
22109%350 3344.8%
15
16-6.3%326 357-8.7%
24
234.3%240 21412.1%
---
---
--------- --- ---
Total
139
11421.9%1743 1668 4.5%

Other Sporty Cars
October
2014
October
2013
%
Change
2014
YTD
2013
YTD
%
Change
127
211-39.8%19322042-5.4%
---
23-100%2595-99.7%
223
------790------
328
19171.7%28271911380%
50
76-34.2%1079224 382%
---
4-100%14606 -97.7%
6
1500%89 57 56.1%
141
12116.5%14321691-15.3%
25
250.0%381461-17.4%
12
850.0%127193-34.2%
1
5-8.0%18 34-47.1%
18
20-10.0%498 523-4.8%
---
--------- 3 ---
28
29-3.4%371 427-13.1%
121
130-6.9%1455 1687 -13.8%
43
88-51.1%852 999-14.7%
21
22-4.5%405472-14.2%
---
2-100%---119-100%
---
---
--------- --- ---
Total
1144
95619.7%12,272 10,324 18.9%

Warm Hatches
October
2014
October
2013
%
Change
2014
YTD
2013
YTD
%
Change
337
381-11.5%51166184 -17.3%
336
3253.4%31394219 -25.6%
627
286119%25383298 -23.0%
85
122-30.3%1057 1298 -18.6%
116
130-10.8%17322083 -16.9%
---
---
--------- --- ---
Total
1501
124420.7%13,582 17,082 -20.5%

Premium Sporty Cars
October
2014
October
2013
%
Change
2014
YTD
2013
YTD
%
Change
6
60.0%1061023.9%
5
------36------
10
1900%9736169%
3
9-66.7%76 88-13.6%
---
------1 10.0%
16
1145.5%314371-15.4%
1
11-90.9%37 61-39.3%
6
60.0%115116-0.9%
70
30133%718 56726.6%
---
------5 ------
---
---
--------- --- ---
Total
117
7458.1%1505 1342 12.1%
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. 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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