Best Selling Sporty Cars in America for December 2017
Here you will find the Sporty car sales leaders in the United States for December 2017. Each month we compile the Sporty car model sales data and reports for North American markets and analyze it to create the best selling list below.
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If you want more data, check out our last few months of data Sporty Cars Sales in America – November 2017 or Sporty Cars Sales in America – November 2016. Also check out our other Segment reports or dive deeper into Sporty Car Sales.
Our Take On The Sporty Cars Sales Numbers
The Ford Mustang is still America’s top-selling sports car, despite a 22.7% drop in sales compared with 2016.
Its drop accounts for much of the fall in demand in the muscle car segment, where the only nameplate to grow its fortunes on 2016 was the Dodge Challenger – and then by just 2%.
The muscle car segment is down 11.8% year-to-date for 2017; Euro sports cars fell 17.2% on 2016’s totals. Misc sports cars and premium sports cars both grew their totals on the previous year for the totals shown below.
The Audi A5 should be applauded as the saviour of the misc sports cars segment. Its sales grew 155% year-to-date for 2017 against 2016, following nine months of explosive growth for Audi’s coupe.
Its contribution of over 12,000 extra sales to the segment in 2017 outweighs considerable losses from other namebadges.
The Porsche 911 tops the premium sports cars sales chart. While 2017 was a record year for Porsche, the 911 posted a more modest 0.8% uptick in sales for the year, and weathered the storm of a difficult December by selling two units above its performance in the twelfth month of 2016.
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Top Sporty Cars Sales Figures – This Month
This sales table of shows the top Sporty car sales performers in the United States, including their year on year growth rates both for the most recent month and year to date figures. Note that this table is sortable and that it fees the chart below. You can easily change the chart by filtering and sorting the below table.
For reference US = United States Sales for the month, US LY = Last Year’s United States Sales for the month, US vs LY = The Year on Year Growth Rate, YTD = United States Sales Year to Date, YTD LY = Last Year’s United States Year to Date Sales, YTD vs LY = The Year on Year Growth Rate.
American Muscle Car Sales
| Model | US | US LY | US vs LY | YTD | YTD LY | YTD vs LY |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ford Mustang | 7,714 | 7,064 | 9.20 | 81,866 | 105,932 | -22.70 |
| Chevrolet Camaro | 3,802 | 7,000 | -45.70 | 67,940 | 72,705 | -6.60 |
| Dodge Challenger | 4,508 | 5,257 | -14.20 | 64,537 | 64,433 | 0.20 |
| Model | US | US LY | US vs LY | YTD | YTD LY | YTD vs LY |
| ∑ = 16,024 | ∑ = 19,321 | ∑ = 214,343 | ∑ = 243,070 |
Euro Sports Car Sales
| Model | US | US LY | US vs LY | YTD | YTD LY | YTD vs LY |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jaguar F-Type | 391 | 388 | 0.80 | 4,108 | 4,069 | 1.00 |
| Mercedes-Benz SLC-Class | 260 | 330 | -21.20 | 2,860 | 3,397 | -15.80 |
| Porsche Cayman | 185 | 224 | -17.40 | 2,800 | 3,590 | -22.00 |
| Audi TT | 237 | 252 | -6.00 | 2,294 | 3,044 | -24.60 |
| Porsche Boxster | 116 | 149 | -22.10 | 2,287 | 2,670 | -14.30 |
| BMW Z4 | 0 | 75 | -100.00 | 502 | 1,187 | -57.70 |
| Alfa Romeo 4C | 26 | 23 | 13.00 | 407 | 480 | -15.20 |
| Model | US | US LY | US vs LY | YTD | YTD LY | YTD vs LY |
| ∑ = 1,215 | ∑ = 1,441 | ∑ = 15,258 | ∑ = 18,437 |
Misc Sports Car Sales
| Model | US | US LY | US vs LY | YTD | YTD LY | YTD vs LY |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Audi A5 | 2,958 | 591 | 400.50 | 21,301 | 8,354 | 155.00 |
| BMW 2-Series | 1,188 | 1,085 | 9.50 | 11,737 | 15,519 | -24.40 |
| Buick Cascada | 408 | 629 | -35.10 | 5,595 | 7,153 | -21.80 |
| Chevrolet Corvette | 2,278 | 2,709 | -15.90 | 25,079 | 29,995 | -16.40 |
| Fiat 124 Spider | 287 | 250 | 14.80 | 4,478 | 2,475 | 80.90 |
| Honda CR-Z | 19 | 160 | -88.10 | 705 | 2,338 | -69.80 |
| Infiniti Q60 | 869 | 1,018 | -14.60 | 10,751 | 3,970 | 170.80 |
| Lexus RC | 686 | 1,042 | -34.20 | 7,363 | 11,165 | -34.10 |
| Mazda MX-5 Miata | 493 | 733 | -32.70 | 11,294 | 9,465 | 19.30 |
| Nissan 370Z | 304 | 368 | -17.40 | 4,614 | 5,913 | -22.00 |
| Subaru BRZ | 297 | 214 | 38.80 | 4,131 | 4,141 | -0.20 |
| Subaru Impreza WRX/STI * | 2,424 | 2,938 | -17.50 | 31,358 | 33,279 | -5.80 |
| Toyota 86/Scion FR-S | 425 | 557 | -23.70 | 6,846 | 7,457 | -8.20 |
| Volkswagen Eos | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 387 | -99.70 |
| Volkswagen Golf GTI * | 1,912 | 2,777 | -31.10 | 22,486 | 23,934 | -6.00 |
| Volkswagen Golf R * | 6 | 546 | -98.90 | 2,706 | 4,493 | -39.80 |
| Model | US | US LY | US vs LY | YTD | YTD LY | YTD vs LY |
| ∑ = 14,554 | ∑ = 15,617 | ∑ = 170,445 | ∑ = 170,038 |
Premium Sports Car Sales
| Model | US | US LY | US vs LY | YTD | YTD LY | YTD vs LY |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Porsche 911 | 773 | 771 | 0.30 | 8,970 | 8,901 | 0.80 |
| Mercedes-Benz SL-Class | 277 | 304 | -8.90 | 2,940 | 3,722 | -21.00 |
| Lexus LC | 290 | 0 | 0.00 | 2,487 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Mercedes-AMG GT | 183 | 99 | 84.80 | 1,608 | 1,227 | 31.10 |
| Maserati GranTurismo | 119 | 148 | -19.60 | 1,018 | 1,249 | -18.50 |
| Bentley Continental GT | 101 | 123 | -17.90 | 898 | 1,144 | -21.50 |
| Audi R8 | 56 | 82 | -31.70 | 772 | 736 | 4.90 |
| Dodge Viper | 9 | 59 | -84.70 | 585 | 630 | -7.10 |
| Acura NSX | 56 | 68 | -17.60 | 581 | 269 | 116.00 |
| Nissan GT-R | 36 | 46 | -21.70 | 578 | 698 | -17.20 |
| BMW i8 | 80 | 133 | -39.80 | 488 | 1,594 | -69.40 |
| Ford GT | 9 | 0 | 0.00 | 89 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Cadillac ELR | 0 | 3 | -100.00 | 17 | 534 | -96.80 |
| Lexus LFA | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 3 | 6 | -50.00 |
| Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 1 | 0.00 |
| Model | US | US LY | US vs LY | YTD | YTD LY | YTD vs LY |
| ∑ = 1,989 | ∑ = 1,836 | ∑ = 21,034 | ∑ = 20,711 |