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| May 2012 Sporty Car Sales Chart Click Either Chart For A Larger View |
The Scion FR-S and Subaru BRZ are part of GoodCarBadCar's U.S. sporty car sales chart for the first time. In addition to displaying the BMW 1-Series with the small luxury cars, we're now going to include the little coupe and convertible in this chart. 1-Series sales are down 13% this year, but May 2012 was much better than last May. And given that this list includes any coupe or convertible for which sales figures are available, the Mini Convertible is now here with the Mini Coupe and Roadster. It should have been included before.
Volkswagen USA has now sold 1510 copies of the Golf R. In May 2012, Volkswagen sold 3.7 GTIs for every Golf R. The GTI outsold the Subaru Impreza WRX by 43 units. The Mercedes-Benz SLK outsold the BMW Z4 by 121 units.
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| U.S. Premium Sporty Car Sales Chart |
U.S. sales of the Porsche 911 rose 44% to 878 in May 2012. The 911 is now 1037 sales ahead of the 6-Series. Automotive News estimates that Ferrari sold 145 cars in May, Lamborghini another 29, and Lotus 20. We know Maserati sold 226 cars in May; Bentley 201.
Historical monthly and yearly sales figures for all the models listed below and in the two accompanying charts can be accessed through the dropdown at the top right of this page or at GCBC's Sales Stats home. After the jump you'll find detailed May 2012 sales info on a variety of coupes, convertibles, and sporty variants of sedans and hatchbacks.
Sporty Car | May 2012 | % Change | Year To Date | YTD % Change |
Audi A5 | 1264 | - 12.1% | 6395 | - 1.0% |
Audi TT | 198 | - 10.0% | 952 | + 11.1% |
BMW 1-Series | 628 | + 51.7% | 3463 | - 13.3% |
BMW Z4 | 284 | - 56.3% | 1172 | - 23.5% |
Chevrolet Camaro | 9023 | - 4.5% | 40,574 | + 0.7% |
Chevrolet Corvette | 1219 | - 6.5% | 5547 | - 0.9% |
Dodge Challenger | 4816 | + 40.9% | 19,442 | + 15.9% |
Ford Mustang | 10,427 | + 57.8% | 38,361 | + 27.0% |
Honda CR-Z | 296 | - 81.0% | 1995 | - 71.7% |
Hyundai Veloster | 3624 | ----- | 15,597 | ----- |
Infiniti G37 Coupe/Convertible | 1437 | + 23.1% | 5638 | - 17.7% |
Mazda MX-5 Miata | 621 | + 3.0% | 2767 | + 7.3% |
Mazda RX-8 | ----- | - 100% | 79 | - 80.9% |
Mercedes-Benz SLK | 405 | + 543% | 1963 | + 161% |
Mini Convertible | 650 | + 23.3% | 2153 | + 2.0% |
Mini Coupe | 287 | ----- | 1313 | ----- |
Mini Roadster | 254 | ----- | 766 | ----- |
Mitsubishi Eclipse | 154 | - 89.5% | 758 | - 78.9% |
Nissan 370Z | 903 | + 6.6% | 3753 | - 3.8% |
Porche Boxster | 23 | - 88.5% | 160 | - 82.2% |
Porsche Cayman | 26 | - 80.2% | 375 | - 38.5% |
Scion FR-S | 86 | ----- | 86 | ----- |
Scion tC | 2190 | - 17.8% | 9431 | - 12.9% |
Subaru BRZ | 271 | ----- | 271 | ----- |
Subaru Impreza WRX | 1525 | + 159% | 5706 | + 3.6% |
Volkswagen Eos | 792 | - 7.3% | 2975 | + 5.2% |
Volkswagen GTI | 1568 | - 9.4% | 7478 | + 1.6% |
Volkswagen Golf R | 423 | ----- | 1510 | ----- |
Volvo C70 | 488 | - 21.7% | 2028 | - 16.1% |
Premium Sporty Car | May 2012 | % Change | Year To Date | YTD % Change |
Audi R8 | 90 | - 9.1% | 425 | - 13.6% |
BMW 6-Series | 725 | + 160% | 2935 | + 267% |
Jaguar XK | 106 | - 44.5% | 773 | + 10.6% |
Lexus LFA | 3 | ----- | 22 | 0.0% |
Mercedes-Benz CL-Class | 56 | - 17.6% | 329 | - 27.7% |
Mercedes-Benz SL-Class | 709 | + 458% | 1229 | + 46.1% |
Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG | 83 | + 295% | 473 | + 43.3% |
Nissan GT-R | 135 | + 2.3% | 479 | - 34.2% |
Porsche 911 | 878 | + 43.5% | 3972 | + 46.7% |
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.
Related From GoodCarBadCar.net
Sporty Car & Premium Sporty Car Sales In America - June 2012
Sporty Car & Premium Sporty Car Sales In America - April 2012
Sporty Car & Premium Sporty Car Sales In America - May 2011
Top 20 Best-Selling Cars In America - May 2012
Mini USA Sales Chart - January-May 2012
U.S. Auto Sales By Brand - May 2012
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