Sporty Car Sales In America - August 2014 YTD

Although 2014 is the year in which the new Mustang debuted, it appears as though we'll have to wait until 2015 to see if Ford's pony car can outsell the Chevrolet Camaro, something the Mustang hasn't done since 2009, before the Camaro was available for a full calendar year.

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• U.S. Vehicle Sales Rankings By Model - August 2014 YTD
• U.S. Car Sales Rankings By Model - August 2014 YTD

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The Mustang, now in production in sixth-generation form, posted a slight increase in U.S. August sales but trailed the declining Camaro by 2256 units. Chevrolet thus expanded its year-to-date lead over the Mustang to 8094 units. For the fifth and sixth-gen Mustangs to overcome that deficit by year's end, the Mustang would need to outsell the Camaro by an average of 2024 units in each of the remaining four months.

For Dodge to turn 2014 into the sixth consecutive year of Challenger sales growth, Dodge will need to sell 16,706 more Challengers this year during a period in which only 12,817 Challengers were sold a year ago, a 30% rate of growth.

The Jaguar F-Type once again outsold a handful of its less costly European rivals in August 2014, besting the next-best-selling Porsche Boxster by 31 units last month. Porsche also sold 1015 911s, the first time Porsche crested the 1000-unit mark since April 2012. 

BMW USA reported their first nine i8 sales in August 2014. Among the early deliveries, i8s found owners in Roger Penske, Rick Hendrick, and Tony Fadell, the founder of Nest.

Besides the release of U.S. sales figures for August and the first eight months of 2014, last week also saw the introduction of Mazda's fourth-generation MX-5 Miata, the ND. It's an attention-grabber.

You can click any model name in the tables below to find historical monthly and yearly U.S. 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, and GTs 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 2014 • July 2014 • August 2013

Sporty Car	August 2014	August 2013	% Change	2014 YTD	2013 YTD	% Change
Chevrolet Camaro	8134	8875	-8.3%	64,767	59,156	9.5%
Dodge Challenger	4182	4392	-4.8%	34,757	38,645	-10.1%
Ford Mustang	5878	5866	0.2%	56,673	54,745	3.5%
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Total	18,194	19,133	-4.9%	156,197	152,546	2.4%

Sporty Car	August 2014	August 2013	% Change	2014 YTD	2013 YTD	% Change
Audi TT	86	198	-56.6%	1056	1352	-21.9%
BMW Z4	114	177	-35.6%	1447	1790	-19.2%
Jaguar F-Type	378	401	-5.7%	2616	1318	98.5%
Mercedes-Benz SLK	341	385	-11.4%	3106	3165	-1.9%
Porsche Boxster	347	348	-0.3%	2749	3457	-20.5%
Porsche Cayman	280	321	-12.8%	2323	2120	9.6%
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Total	1546	1830	-15.5%	13,297	13,202	0.7%

Other Sporty Cars	August 2014	August 2013	% Change	2014 YTD	2013 YTD	% Change
Audi A5	1813	1757	3.2%	11,961	12,977	-7.8%
BMW 1-Series & 2-Series *^	657	628	4.6%	4563	4426	3.1%
Chevrolet Corvette	2679	655	309.0%	23,483	6999	235.5%
Honda CR-Z	342	483	-29.2%	2697	3282	-17.8%
Infiniti Q60 & G37 Coupe/Convertible *	602	1054	-42.9%	5304	7315	-27.5%
Mazda MX-5 Miata	379	578	-34.4%	3441	4390	-21.6%
Mazda RX-8	---	---	---	1	1	---
Mitsubishi Eclipse	---	---	---	---	109	-100.0%
Nissan 370Z	691	853	-19.0%	5441	4560	19.3%
Scion FR-S	1429	1902	-24.9%	10,262	13,537	-24.2%
Subaru BRZ	720	868	-17.1%	5739	5642	1.7%
Subaru Impreza WRX *	1474	1235	19.4%	16,714	12,259	36.3%
Volkswagen Eos	302	382	-20.9%	2603	3160	-17.6%
Volkswagen GTI *	2026	1381	46.7%	10,524	9171	14.8%
Volkswagen Golf R *	---	117	-100.0%	15	1422	-98.9%
Volvo C70	13	541	-97.6%	769	2310	-66.7%
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Total	13,127	12,434	5.6%	103,517	91,560	13.1%

Sporty Hatchbacks	August 2014	August 2013	% Change	2014 YTD	2013 YTD	% Change
Fiat 500 *	3329	2976	11.9%	23,879	26,868	-11.1%
Hyundai Veloster *	2981	3093	-3.6%	20,188	21,005	-3.9%
Mini Cooper *	2366	4146	-42.9%	18,449	28,738	-35.8%
Scion tC *	2128	2546	-16.4%	13,056	13,347	-2.2%
Volkswagen Beetle *	2905	4921	-41.0%	21,485	31,364	-31.5%
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Total	13,709	17,682	-22.5%	97,057	121,322	-20.0%

Premium Sporty Car	August 2014	August 2013	% Change	2014 YTD	2013 YTD	% Change
Audi R8	50	76	-34.2%	525	547	-4.0%
BMW i8	9	---	---	9	---	---
Cadillac ELR	196	---	---	774	---	---
Dodge Viper	38	61	-37.7%	438	381	15.0%
Jaguar XK	136	66	106.1%	1093	974	12.2%
Lexus LFA	3	---	---	15	17	-11.8%
Mercedes-Benz CL-Class	17	27	-37.0%	171	319	-46.4%
Mercedes-Benz SL-Class	314	716	-56.1%	3174	5035	-37.0%
Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG	26	32	-18.8%	204	301	-32.2%
Nissan GT-R	208	123	69.1%	859	876	-1.9%
Porsche 911	1015	769	32.0%	7032	6889	2.1%
Porsche 918 Spyder	15	---	---	19	---	---
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Total	2027	1870	8.4%	14,313	15,339	-6.7%

Source: Automakers & ANDC
* indicates a vehicle which is also shown in another GCBC segment breakdown
^ BMW USA, not GoodCarBadCar, has chosen to combine sales figures of the 1-Series and 2-Series.
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. The BMW 6-Series has been removed from the premium list because we don't use this space as a showcase for sedans (unless automakers release data for high-end sporting models like the Lexus ISF, as Toyota Canada does) and the 6-Series lineup now relies heavily on a sedan variant. GoodCarBadCar is always open to hearing about the ways you would break down segments, so feel free to get in touch. You can always find the sales results for EVERY vehicle and form your own competitive sets by using the All Vehicle Rankings posts. Sales data for brands such as Aston Martin, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Lotus, Rolls-Royce etc. are unfortunately not broken down by model. ANDC estimates say sales for those brands in August 2014 were 102, 175, 59, 14, and 75, respectively. Tesla, unfortunately, doesn't release model-specific monthly U.S. sales data, but HybridCars.com estimates 1200 August Tesla sales, 10,600 YTD.

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