Sporty Car Sales In Canada - December 2016 & 2016 Year End

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Canadian sales of American muscle cars – including Canadian-made examples – jumped 10% in 2016 thanks to gains from each member of the three-pronged category.

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Canada Vehicle Sales Rankings By Model - 2016 Year End
Canada Car Sales Rankings By Model - 2016 Year End

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Led by the Ford Mustang, which rose 10% and easily outsold the Dodge Challenger and Chevrolet Camaro – Detroit's big coupes form the bulk of Canada's sports car sector's sales. 2016 was the Mustang's highest-volume Canadian sales year since 2007.

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But it wasn't just low-end coupes that overachieved in 2016. As Canadian auto sales grew to the highest level ever in 2016, the Porsche 911 broke its Canadian sales record with 945 units driven home. 2016 was also the best year ever for the Porsche Cayman. 

GCBC's favourite sports car, the Mazda MX-5 Miata, climbed to an eight-year high of 903 units. Nissan 370Z sales were higher in 2016 than Z sales have been since 2004. Nissan also set a GT-R record with 156 sales; Audi set an R8 record with 158 sales.

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 • January 2017 • November 2016 • December 2015

American Muscle	Dec. 2016	Dec. 2015	% Change	2016	2015	% Change
Chevrolet Camaro	131	77	70.1%	2708	2668	1.5%
Dodge Challenger	135	83	62.7%	3160	2669	18.4%
Ford Mustang	292	352	-17.0%	7655	6933	10.4%
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Total	558	512	9.0%	13,523	12,270	10.2%

Euro Sports Cars	Dec. 2016	Dec. 2015	% Change	2016 YTD	2015 YTD	% Change
Alfa Romeo 4C	2	8	-75.0%	68	122	-44.3%
Audi TT	19	14	35.7%	599	251	139%
BMW Z4	---	19	-100%	100	121	-17.4%
Jaguar F-Type	17	29	-41.4%	522	462	13.0%
Mercedes-Benz SLK/SLC	9	10	-10.0%	280	270	3.7%
Porsche Boxster	19	20	-5.0%	345	360	-4.2%
Porsche Cayman	22	31	-29.0%	345	322	7.1%
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Total	88	131	-32.8%	2259	1908	18.4%

Misc. Sporty Cars	Dec. 2016	Dec. 2015	% Change	2016	2015	% Change
Audi A5 *	70	78	-10.3%	1516	1693	-10.5%
BMW 1-Series *	---	---	---	---	3	-100%
BMW 2-Series *	55	174	-68.4%	2091	1703	22.8%
Chevrolet Corvette	59	39	51.3%	1758	1715	2.5%
Fiat 124 Spider	20	---	---	258	---	---
Honda CR-Z	5	---	---	40	294	-98.3%
Hyundai Genesis Coupe	19	32	-40.6%	952	1029	-7.5%
Infiniti Q60 *	53	9	489%	422	408	3.4%
Lexus RC	26	27	-3.7%	526	792	-33.6%
Mazda MX-5 Miata	13	28	-53.6%	903	630	43.3%
Nissan 370Z	24	34	-29.4%	932	688	35.5%
Scion FR-S/Toyota 86	38	51	-25.5%	1097	1329	-17.5%
Subaru BRZ	21	26	-19.2%	740	800	-7.5%
Subaru Impreza WRX/STi *	310	203	52.7%	4217	3107	35.7%
Volkswagen Eos	1	11	-90.9%	53	438	-87.9%
Volkswagen GTI *	108	138	-21.7%	2453	2625	-6.6%
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Total	822	850	-3.3%	17,958	17,254	4.1%

Premium Sporty Cars	Dec. 2016	Dec. 2015	% Change	2016	2015	% Change
Acura NSX	4	---	---	50	---	---
Audi R8	4	1	300%	158	89	77.5%
Bentley Continental GT	5	25	-80.0%	69	115	-40.0%
Cadillac ELR	---	---	---	11	25	-56.0%
Dodge Viper	8	2	300%	56	110	-49.1%
Jaguar XK	---	---	---	---	25	-100%
Maserati GranTurismo	4	1	300%	65	65	0.0%
Mercedes-AMG GT	5	12	-58.3%	175	145	20.7%
Mercedes-Benz SL-Class	17	9	88.9%	221	281	-21.4%
Nissan GT-R	7	7	0.0%	156	130	20.0%
Porsche 911	64	48	33.3%	945	859	10.0%
Porsche 918 Spyder	---	3	-100%	1	21	-95.2%
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Total	118	108	9.3%	1907	1865	2.3%

Source: Automakers & Global Automakers Of Canada
* 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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