Exotic Car Segment Sales
The exotic car segment in Europe takes a small correction after a 16% increase in 2014, as sales are down 4% in 2015 to 5,267 units. The Bentley Continental GT leads as comfortable as ever because its closest competitor Ferrari 458 Italia is being slowly phased out to make room for its successor Ferrari 488 GTB. The 458 is down 27%, but even with sales of the new 488 added to its year-end total, the two Ferrari’s are still down 11%. Lamborghini has benefited from that and has more than doubled its sales of the Huracan compared to its first partial year on the market, also helped by the Spider version. That moves from 9th to 3rd ahead of two Aston Martins.
Aston Martin has had a good year with sales of the Vanquish and DB9 both up around 13% in fourth and fifth place of the segment, passing the Ferrari F12, which loses 31% and is under threat from the Lamborghini Aventador. The Rolls Royce Wraith is already down 23% as the British brand has started production of the convertible version named Dawn. In the fourth quarter the 488 GTB was already the #2 of the segment and it should be able to give the Continental GT a run for its money in 2016.
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