Sporty Car Sales In Canada - October 2016 YTD

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Canadian sales of Detroit muscle cars – two of which are now built in Michigan – jumped 27% to 594 units in October 2016. 

The trio, a bundle of sport coupes from Chevrolet, Dodge, and Ford, are up 12% this year despite essentially nonexistent growth from the all-new Chevrolet Camaro.

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

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The Subaru WRX/STI, however, was the high-volume sporting car in October. 

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A thoroughly unconventional variation of a thoroughly conventional four-door sedan, the WRX and its hi-po STI sibling produced 379 October sales, a 26% year-over-year improvement.

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.

Click Column Headers To Sort • November 2016 • September 2016 • October 2015

American Muscle	October 2016	October 2015	% Change	2016 YTD	2015 YTD	% Change
Chevrolet Camaro	178	98	81.6%	2450	2445	0.2%
Dodge Challenger	120	119	0.8%	2886	2498	15.5%
Ford Mustang	296	250	18.4%	7116	6166	15.4%
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Total	594	467	27.2%	12,452	11,109	12.1%

Euro Sports Cars	October 2016	October 2015	% Change	2016 YTD	2015 YTD	% Change
Alfa Romeo 4C	11	12	-8.3%	65	105	-38.1%
Audi TT	32	53	-39.6%	552	213	159%
BMW Z4	4	6	-33.3%	96	98	-2.0%
Jaguar F-Type	19	20	-5.0%	470	402	16.9%
Mercedes-Benz SLK/SLC	18	11	63.6%	262	248	5.6%
Porsche Boxster	15	13	15.4%	317	312	1.6%
Porsche Cayman	10	31	-67.7%	311	257	21.0%
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Total	109	146	-25.3%	2073	1635	26.8%

Misc. Sporty Cars	October 2016	October 2015	% Change	2016 YTD	2015 YTD	% Change
Audi A5 *	80	147	-45.6%	1308	1494	-12.4%
BMW 1-Series *	---	---	---	---	3	-100%
BMW 2-Series *	151	167	-9.6%	1796	1353	32.7%
Chevrolet Corvette	101	73	38.4%	1592	1628	-2.2%
Fiat 124 Spider	39	---	---	208	---	---
Honda CR-Z	2	3	-33.3%	34	51	-33.3%
Hyundai Genesis Coupe	72	59	22.0%	872	941	-7.3%
Infiniti Q60 *	147	22	568%	283	386	-26.7%
Lexus RC	48	45	6.7%	469	739	-36.5%
Mazda MX-5 Miata	32	39	-17.9%	880	570	54.4%
Nissan 370Z	44	66	-33.3%	872	622	40.2%
Scion FR-S/Toyota 86	69	88	-21.6%	988	1209	-18.3%
Subaru BRZ	52	40	30.0%	664	744	-10.8%
Subaru Impreza WRX/STi *	379	301	25.9%	3611	2702	33.6%
Volkswagen Eos	---	19	-100%	50	417	-88.0%
Volkswagen GTI *	158	252	-37.3%	2209	2296	-3.8%
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Total	1374	1321	4.0%	15,836	15,155	4.5%

Premium Sporty Cars	October 2016	October 2015	% Change	2016 YTD	2015 YTD	% Change
Acura NSX	14	---	---	27	---	---
Audi R8	15	2	650%	143	88	62.5%
Bentley Continental GT	5	7	-28.6%	51	82	-37.8%
Cadillac ELR	3	---	---	11	25	-56.0%
Dodge Viper	---	1	-100%	40	107	-62.6%
Jaguar XK	---	1	-100%	---	25	-100%
Lexus LFA
Maserati GranTurismo	1	4	-75.0%	60	64	-6.3%
Mercedes-AMG GT	11	17	-35.3%	163	118	38.1%
Mercedes-Benz SL-Class	19	11	72.7%	186	255	-27.1%
Nissan GT-R	12	9	33.3%	140	118	18.6%
Porsche 911	26	48	-45.8%	855	753	13.5%
Porsche 918 Spyder	---	---	---	1	18	-94.4%
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Total	106	100	6.0%	1677	1653	1.5%

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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