Sporty Car Sales In Canada – March 2016 YTD

Ford Canada ended the first-quarter of 2016 with 1172 Mustang sales, a 10% year-over-year increase which suggests Ford could see Canadian Mustang sales rise to a nine-year high in 2016. In March as in Q1, Ford’s Mustang tally was greater than the combined effort of the Chevrolet Camaro and Dodge Challenger combined.

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

With 136 sales through the first three months of 2016, Audi Canada is on track for its TT to rise to the highest output since 2008. In March, the TT’s 71-unit sales total was greater than the Alfa Romeo 4C, BMW Z4, and Mercedes-Benz SLK combined.

After sales of the Chevrolet Corvette shot up to 1715 units in 2015, GM Canada’s first-quarter performance in 2016 puts the Corvette on pace for more than 2500 sales in 2016. Matching the growth rate from the first-quarter in higher-volume portions of the year will be a challenge, however.

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It appears highly likely that Mazda Canada will sell more than 1000 MX-5 Miatas in 2016, a figure the MX-5 hasn’t broached since 2008. Nissan is on track for its best-ever year of GT-R sales, while 370Z volume could rise to the highest level since the Z’s return early last decade.

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.

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American Muscle	March 2016	March 2015	% Change	2016 YTD	2015 YTD	% Change
Chevrolet Camaro	223	212	5.2%	425	328	29.6%
Dodge Challenger	282	301	-6.3%	525	545	-3.7%
Ford Mustang	651	732	-11.1%	1172	1068	9.7%
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Total	1156	1245	-7.1%	2122	1941	9.3%

Euro Sports Cars	March 2016	March 2015	% Change	2016 YTD	2015 YTD	% Change
Alfa Romeo 4C	8	—	—	20	10	100%
Audi TT	71	6	1083%	136	9	1411%
BMW Z4	11	10	10.0%	17	17	0.0%
Jaguar F-Type	83	59	40.7%	148	99	49.5%
Mercedes-Benz SLK/SLC	48	37	29.7%	85	61	39.3%
Porsche Boxster	26	21	23.8%	45	47	-4.3%
Porsche Cayman	34	23	47.8%	60	44	36.4%
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Total	281	156	80.1%	511	287	78.0%

Misc. Sporty Cars	March 2016	March 2015	% Change	2016 YTD	2015 YTD	% Change
Audi A5 *	185	133	39.1%	315	270	16.7%
BMW 2-Series *	188	109	72.5%	415	181	129%
BMW 4-Series *	415	286	45.1%	1133	925	22.5%
Chevrolet Corvette	151	102	48.0%	206	137	50.4%
Honda CR-Z	3	13	-76.9%	8	19	-57.9%
Hyundai Genesis Coupe	89	227	-60.8%	162	336	-51.8%
Infiniti Q60 *	9	40	-77.5%	21	72	-70.8%
Lexus RC	40	59	-32.2%	82	119	-31.1%
Mazda MX-5 Miata	102	46	122%	196	67	193%
Nissan 370Z	142	42	238%	201	80	151%
Scion FR-S	149	121	23.1%	235	225	4.4%
Subaru BRZ	62	86	-27.9%	114	138	-17.4%
Subaru Impreza WRX/STi *	329	237	38.8%	786	548	43.4%
Volkswagen Eos	14	38	-63.2%	38	75	-49.3%
Volkswagen GTI *	258	309	-16.5%	536	680	-21.2%
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Total	2136	1541	38.6%	4448	3874	14.8%

Premium Sporty Cars	March 2016	March 2015	% Change	2016 YTD	2015 YTD	% Change
Audi R8	—	6	-100%	1	22	-95.5%
Cadillac ELR	1	9	-88.9%	5	15	-66.7%
Dodge Viper	4	3	33.3%	9	15	-40.0%
Jaguar XK	—	6	-100%	—	8	-100%
Mercedes-AMG GT	18	—	—	39	—	—
Mercedes-Benz SL-Class	21	24	-12.5%	37	53	-30.2%
Nissan GT-R	18	15	20.0%	39	24	62.5%
Porsche 911	46	95	-51.6%	113	180	-37.2%
Porsche 918 Spyder	1	1	0.0%	1	4	-75.0%
—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Total	109	159	-31.4%	244	321	-24.0%

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.