Sporty Car Sales In Canada – November 2014 YTD

The Dodge Challenger outsold Chevrolet’s Camaro during an improved month for Detroit muscle cars in Canada in November 2014. But it was November, and even the Challenger’s 110% year-over-year increase and the Ford Mustang’s 57% jump produced relatively low numbers.

• Canada Vehicle Sales Rankings By Model – November 2014 YTD
• Canada Car Sales Rankings By Model – November 2014 YTD

50% of the Mustangs sold by Ford Canada this year were delivered in the second-quarter. Only 5% of the Mustangs sold left dealers in November.

All three cars were outsold by different variations on the sporting theme. Mini’s hot little Cooper family was up 71% to 467 units. Although tame, in straight-line terms, in base form, the Mini doesn’t hide its athletic intentions. As a Cooper S, it’ll deliver you to your destination awfully quickly, as well. BMW sold 307 copies of the 4-Series in November, as well, enough to outperform the Mustang and its cohorts.

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The biggest sports car story in 2014, new Mustang and new supercars aside, may be the continued success of the Jaguar F-Type. 46 more were sold in Canada in November, more than double the number achieved by the Porsche Boxster; more than the Boxster and Cayman and Mercedes-Benz SLK and BMW Z4 combined.

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 • November 2015 • December 2014 • October 2014 • November 2013

American Muscle	November 2014	November 2013	% Change	2014 YTD	2013 YTD	% Change
Chevrolet Camaro	77	65	18.5%	2819	2107	33.8%
Dodge Challenger	110	51	116%	1531	1482	3.3%
Ford Mustang	235	150	56.7%	4798	4949	-3.1%
—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Total	422	266	58.6%	9148	8538	7.1%

Euro Sports Cars	November 2014	November 2013	% Change	2014 YTD	2013 YTD	% Change
Audi TT	13	25	-48.0%	288	361	-20.2%
BMW Z4	4	7	-42.9%	172	234	-26.5%
Jaguar F-Type	46	18	156%	430	218	97.2%
Mercedes-Benz SLK	5	26	-80.8%	355	360	-1.4%
Porsche Boxster	22	20	10.0%	348	377	-7.7%
Porsche Cayman	11	15	-26.7%	251	229	9.6%
—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Total	101	111	-9.0%	1844	1779	3.6%

Other Sporty Cars	November 2014	November 2013	% Change	2014 YTD	2013 YTD	% Change
Audi A5 *	115	175	-34.3%	2047	2217	-7.7%
BMW 1-Series *	—	24	-100%	2	619	99.7%
BMW 2-Series *	53	—	—	843	—	—
BMW 4-Series *	307	243	26.3%	3134	434	622%
Chevrolet Corvette	63	54	16.7%	1142	278	311%
Chrysler 200 Convertible *	—	6	-100%	14	612	-97.7%
Honda CR-Z	5	10	-50.0%	94	67	40.3%
Hyundai Genesis Coupe	34	78	-56.4%	1466	1769	-17.1%
Infiniti Q60 & G37 Coupe/Convertible *	22	27	-18.5%	403	488	-17.4%
Lexus ISC *	5	11	-54.5%	132	204	-35.3%
Lexus ISF *	—	2	-100%	18	36	-50.0%
Lexus RC	56	—	—	56	—	—
Mazda MX-5 Miata	6	8	-25.0%	504	531	-5.1%
Mitsubishi Eclipse	—	—	—	—	3	-100%
Nissan 370Z	19	13	46.2%	390	440	-11.4%
Scion FR-S	63	86	-26.7%	1518	1773	-14.4%
Subaru BRZ	37	62	-40.3%	889	1061	-16.2%
Volkswagen Eos	17	17	0.0%	422	489	-13.7%
Volvo C70	—	2	-100%	—	125	-100%
—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Total	802	818	-1.9%	13,074	11,146	17.3%

Warm Hatches	November 2014	November 2013	% Change	2014 YTD	2013 YTD	% Change
Fiat 500 *	222	370	-40.0%	5338	6554	-18.6%
Hyundai Veloster *	196	200	-2.0%	335	4419	-24.5%
Mini Cooper *	467	273	71.1%	3005	3571	-15.8%
Scion tC *	74	108	-31.5%	1131	1406	-19.6%
Volkswagen Beetle *	159	116	37.1%	1891	2199	-14.0%
—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Total	1118	1067	4.8%	11,700	18,149	-35.5%

Premium Sporty Cars	November 2014	November 2013	% Change	2014 YTD	2013 YTD	% Change
Audi R8	8	5	60.0%	114	107	6.5%
Cadillac ELR	5	—	—	41	—	—
Dodge Viper	4	9	-55.6%	101	45	124%
Jaguar XK	2	1	100%	78	89	-12.4%
Lexus LFA	—	—	—	1	1	0.0%
Mercedes-Benz SL-Class	19	20	-5.0%	333	391	-14.8%
Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG	—	1	-100%	37	62	-40.3%
Nissan GT-R	5	4	25.0%	120	120	0.0%
Porsche 911	46	30	53.3%	764	597	28.0%
Porsche 918 Spyder	—	—	—	5	—	—
—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Total	89	70	27.1%	1594	1412	12.9%

Source: Automakers & ANDC
^ 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 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. GoodCarBadCar is always open to hearing about the ways you would break down segments, so feel free to get in touch.