Since its introduction, the fifth-generation Chevrolet Camaro has taken the sports car segment by storm. With its design and capabilities, the Camaro dethroned the Ford Mustang from the sales charts, and continues to hold the top position month in and month out. In 2011 alone, the Camaro accounted for 88,249 sales, well above the second-place Mustang which sold 70,438 units. With the arrival of the 580-horsepower ZL1 this spring, things don’t look to be slowing down for America’s favorite pony car.
But the Camaro isn’t the only Chevy performance car standing out. Of course, we’re talking about the Corvette, which despite selling only 13,164 units last year, was twice as successful as the Porsche 911, its nearest sales competitor. And while we disagree with the Chevy PR folk in saying that the Corvette is by any stretch a “luxury sports car,” the vehicle’s track credentials are indisputable.
We’re also left wondering why Chevy left out the Hyundai Genesis Coupe when comparing sales figures in the Camaro segment. Regardless, Chevy claims that one out of every three performance cars sold last year happened to wear a bow tie.
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Now those are some graphs even Grawdaddy can trust 🙂
BAH! The Graw still doesn’t trust or like blue percentage sticks…..or yellow percentage sticks!
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Seriously now, I’m not sure if the whole sports car segment can be lumped into one massive heap; I’m not sure who would cross-shop a Veloster with a Camaro. It’s one of the reasons I catergorize cars into segments based on physical size, of which price can get you different things.
A Kia Forte and a 3 series are both compacts. Both can be had with similar features. Price and image will say different things about each and which is more desireable.
Same deal with sports cars. In my opinion, if the mid-size sports Camaro wasn’t compaired with the compact sports Veloster, then I wouldn’t have be bothered by these blue and yellow sticks becasue they likely wouldn’t have anything in common apart from being ‘sports cars’.
The only reason the camaro is so much better than the mustang is that its almost a generation newer and the mustang was designed before Mullaly came along, keeping that in mind, its almost amazing that the mustang is able to compete with the camaro in sales and comparos. I am betting that the next gen mustang will really give the alpha a run for its money.
Oh, I have heard from someone pretty reliable that Lincoln will be getting a car based on the next gen mustang in 15-16 to compete with the ats.
LOL They put the Corvette under Luxury ?