Sporty Car Sales In Canada – June 2016 YTD

Midst all the turmoil at Volkswagen around the world, second-quarter Canadian sales of Volkswagen’s best product, the Golf GTI, rose 3%.

Canada Vehicle Sales Rankings By Model – June 2016 YTD
Canada Car Sales Rankings By Model – June 2016 YTD

Phew.

Thank goodness.

There’s the reprieve the brand needed. Now that they’re checking VW HQ for WWII bombs and the automaker is preparing to shell out billions to American consumers, Canadian sales of the GTI increased by 25 units, year-over-year, between April and June. Deep breaths can be inhaled.

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Surely we jest.

A slight bump in a small market for one of the automkaer’s lower-volume products is hardly noteworthy. But our typical focus in this post, month after month, on the American muscle cars masks the performances of the two most practical sporting cars for which we have official sales figures.

Not only did Canadian sales of the Volkswagen Golf GTI rise 12% to 287 units in June 2016 – outselling the Subaru BRZ and Scion FR-S combined – but Subaru WRX/STI sales shot up 54% to 366 units, more than triple the total of its sports car sibling.

WRX/STI sales have now increased in 12 of the last 13 months.

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 • July 2016 • May 2016 • June 2015

American Muscle	June 2016	June 2015	% Change	2016 YTD	2015 YTD	% Change
Chevrolet Camaro	296	312	-5.1%	1473	1764	-16.5%
Dodge Challenger	374	326	14.7%	2033	1925	5.6%
Ford Mustang	921	972	-5.2%	4832	4266	13.3%
—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Total	1591	1610	-1.2%	8338	7955	4.8%

Euro Sports Cars	June 2016	June 2015	% Change	2016 YTD	2015 YTD	% Change
Alfa Romeo 4C	1	8	-87.5%	37	25	48.0%
Audi TT	54	4	1250%	371	24	1446%
BMW Z4	17	16	6.3%	60	69	-13.0%
Jaguar F-Type	48	73	-34.2%	318	262	21.4%
Mercedes-Benz SLK	21	26	-19.2%	168	164	2.4%
Porsche Boxster	28	46	-39.1%	146	190	-23.2%
Porsche Cayman	42	33	27.3%	192	127	51.2%
—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Total	211	206	2.4%	1292	861	50.1%

Misc. Sporty Cars	June 2016	June 2015	% Change	2016 YTD	2015 YTD	% Change
Audi A5 *	127	206	-38.3%	840	947	-11.3%
BMW 1-Series *	—	—	—	—	3	-100%
BMW 2-Series *	196	193	1.6%	1193	793	50.4%
Chevrolet Corvette	237	251	-5.6%	937	1145	-18.2%
Honda CR-Z	3	8	-62.5%	20	41	-51.2%
Hyundai Genesis Coupe	102	78	30.8%	532	635	-16.2%
Infiniti Q60 *	—	45	-100%	22	229	-90.4%
Lexus RC	47	56	-16.1%	246	380	-35.3%
Mazda MX-5 Miata	104	60	73.3%	629	269	134%
Nissan 370Z	145	71	104%	557	309	80.3%
Scion FR-S	138	162	-14.8%	643	696	-7.6%
Subaru BRZ	107	120	-10.8%	420	510	-17.6%
Subaru Impreza WRX/STi *	366	237	54.4%	1986	1526	30.1%
Volkswagen Eos	—	76	-100%	50	272	-81.6%
Volkswagen GTI *	287	256	12.1%	1371	1490	-8.0%
—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Total	1859	1819	2.2%	9446	9245	2.2%

Premium Sporty Cars	June 2016	June 2015	% Change	2016 YTD	2015 YTD	% Change
Audi R8	18	19	-5.3%	59	79	-25.3%
Cadillac ELR	2	3	-33.3%	8	21	-61.9%
Dodge Viper	5	13	-61.5%	36	91	-60.4%
Jaguar XK	—	5	-100%	—-	24	-100%
Maserati GranTurismo	13	na	0.0%	na	na	0.0%
Mercedes-AMG GT	9	24	-62.5%	93	58	60.3%
Mercedes-Benz SL-Class	12	47	-74.5%	83	175	-52.6%
Nissan GT-R	8	11	-27.3%	53	67	-20.9%
Porsche 911	99	92	7.6%	523	476	9.9%
Porsche 918 Spyder	—	3	-100%	1	14	-92.9%
—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Total	166	217	-23.5%	856	1005	-14.8%

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.