July 2012 Sporty Car Sales And Premium Sporty Car Sales In America

Ford only needs the Mustang to outsell the Chevrolet Camaro by 628 units in August in order for the company's pony car to take over the U.S. year-to-date lead through eight months. In July, Camaro sales slid 10%, Mustang sales jumped 8%, and the Ford outsold the Chevy by 445 units.

Sporty Car Sales Chart
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For coupe buyers who aren't so power-hungry, the Scion FR-S satisfied the requirements of 1649 U.S. buyers in July 2012. This means the FR-S outsold the Volkswagen GTI by 81 units. Throw the Golf R in with the GTI and the FR-S's lead disappears. Meanwhile, Subaru sold 925 Impreza WRXs and 498 BRZs, equaling 5.7% of the brand's total U.S. volume.

Among small German coupes and roadsters, the new Porsche Boxster cruised to victory over the Audi TT, BMW Z4, Mercedes-Benz SLK, and Porsche's own Cayman, all four of which recorded year-over-year declines. The Z4 and SLK both made it onto GoodCarBadCar's list of the 10 worst-selling cars in America in July.

Premium Sporty Car Sales Chart

At the high end, Porsche wasn't able to secure a victory over the BMW 6-Series, sales of which shot up 51% last month. The 6er ended July 31st 159 sales ahead of the Porsche 911, although the 911's lead through seven months remains more than 1000-units strong.

Historical monthly and yearly sales figures for all the vehicles you'll see after the jump (and in the two accompanying charts) can be accessed free of charge through the first dropdown menu at GCBC's Sales Stats home or near the top right of this page. Pertinent links to other editions of this story can be clicked at the bottom of this post.

Sporty Car	July 2012	% Change	Year To Date	YTD % Change
Audi A5	1732	+ 31.9%	9734	+ 6.6%
Audi TT	169	- 5.1%	1311	+ 7.4%
BMW 1-Series	379	- 42.9%	4543	- 13.6%
BMW Z4	173	- 61.9%	1585	- 36.3%
Chevrolet Camaro	6926	- 9.7%	56,623	+ 0.3%
Chevrolet Corvette	987	- 23.5%	8009	- 2.2%
Dodge Challenger	3631	+ 3.5%	27,082	+ 14.4%
Ford Mustang	7371	+ 8.3%	55,995	+ 22.1%
Honda CR-Z	330	- 62.4%	2734	- 69.2%
Hyundai Veloster	2781	-----	21,610	-----
Infiniti G37 Coupe/Convertible	1287	+ 1.3%	8278	- 10.6%
Mazda MX-5 Miata	590	+ 3.7%	4016	+ 9.9%
Mazda RX-8	-----	- 100%	80	- 85.3%
Mercedes-Benz SLK	235	- 78.9%	2499	+ 13.2%
Mini Convertible	383	- 23.2%	3075	- 1.3%
Mini Coupe	229	-----	1794	-----
Mini Roadster	179	-----	1169	-----
Mitsubishi Eclipse	93	- 88.1%	977	- 84.0%
Nissan 370Z	654	+ 18.9%	5127	+ 0.6%
Porche Boxster	359	+ 76.8%	983	- 25.2%
Porsche Cayman	14	- 88.7%	415	- 51.3%
Scion FR-S	1649	-----	4419	-----
Scion tC	2013	+ 26.6%	13,572	- 6.2%
Subaru BRZ	498	-----	1587	-----
Subaru Impreza WRX	925	- 15.8%	7769	+ 6.9%
Volkswagen Eos	533	- 53.8%	4221	- 13.3%
Volkswagen GTI	1568	+ 0.8%	10,554	+ 1.0%
Volkswagen Golf R	382	-----	2339	-----
Volvo C70	306	- 27.0%	3170	- 6.3%

Premium Sporty Car	July 2012	% Change	Year To Date	YTD % Change
Audi R8	55	- 32.9%	558	- 18.2%
BMW 6-Series	843	+ 50.5%	4420	+ 164%
Jaguar XK	105	- 16.7%	970	- 10.7%
Lexus LFA	3	- 57.1%	27	- 25.0%
Mercedes-Benz CL-Class	39	+ 62.5%	426	- 19.9%
Mercedes-Benz SL-Class	449	+ 383%	2024	+ 94.1%
Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG	59	+ 20.4%	618	+ 55.7%
Nissan GT-R	128	+ 129%	711	- 19.5%
Porsche 911	684	+ 42.5%	5517	+ 45.8%

Source: Manufacturers & ANDC
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.

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