As we know, this year marks the final swan song of the fifth-generation Chevrolet Camaro. Coincidentally, this year also marks the first-full year of sales for the 2015 Mustang, the sixth-generation of the pony car. As the numbers show, current Camaro sales momentum seems dwarfed by the new ‘Stang.
Let’s take a closer look.
Camaro sales totalled 6,373 last month, up 2.6 percent over the same time in 2014, and a previous 4,991 units in January ’15, up 5.5 per cent over the 4,733 units it moved in ’14. Over at the Blue Oval, sales orders for the new Mustang keep stacking up.
Ford Mustang sales totaled 8,454 in February, up 31.9 percent over the 6,410 units moved last February. Last month also marked the the vehicles’ best February sales performance since 2007. In January the marque managed to move 8,694 Mustangs, an incredible 124 percent leap over the same period in ’14. As a result, Ford says the new Mustang has been “the best-selling sports car in America since the launch of the all new model last fall.” Though there are 2014 models still selling alongside the all-new 2015 Mustang which helps give a slight sales cushion.
Just like Mustang sales slowed heavily last January, it could be that Camaro buyers are also holding out for the new model. And until the sixth-generation 2016 Chevrolet Camaro charges into showrooms– possibly looking like this– Ford seems poised to out-muscle the veteran Camaro in the sales skirmish with its rookie Mustang.
To date, Camaro sales total 11, 364 (up 3.8 per cent, from 10,944), while Mustang sales year to date total 17, 148 (up 66.6 per cent, from 10,291).
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Yep, the new Camaro will solve this temporary problem.
When you say “temporary”, are you taking into consideration that the Mustang has dominated 32+ out of the 40+ years each car has been offered simultaneously? That is excluding the 7 year hiatus the Camaro was ran off the market FYI.
Sounds to me like the Camaro winning in sales is the “temporary problem”…
The 6th gen Camaro is going to be light; less power can still make for a fun car. Right now the Camaro starts at basically $24k.. what if GM offered something around 230HP in a bare bones car for $20K, that magic $19,995. It could pull in a lot of buyers that weren’t looking at a Camaro or Mustang.
Outfit the interior in the same light as the BRZ, we know the chassis is good, manual trans, don’t dumb down the suspension or steering to the point of Old-GM type work, 17″ alloys on a cheaper sport tire.
Options list include: automatic trans, eDiff or at least LSD
It would be a like a manual 328i, cheap and fun, but still very good. It would be a drivers car.
The only thing wrong with the current Camaro is the lack of headroom. If you are over 6′ this is the most uncomfortable car you can buy. That, and the stability control error message, which might very well appear before the car has 2000 miles no matter how you drive it.
@ magirus
That and maybe people aren’t liking the honda prelude tail-lights.
the new car sold well even with increased Mustang sales as it was up this month over last month even with the old car in the dead of winter.
Nothing here unexpected with a new competitor on the market. In fact I was surprised the sales were up as it was over last month.
The tail lamps have really had no effect on sales. Now that they are out the acceptance has been normal.
@ scott3
Agreed, the Camaro is selling better than before, imo the Camaro ZL1 is the best pony car out right now, the prelude tail-lights look ok but I still lean a little more towards the older ones. I wonder what the next gen lights will be like.
The 2015 Ford Mustang GT350 should take care of that, best track numbers of any north american car including the CORVETTE and even beat the Porshe 911 and until then the BOSS owners can keep the ZL1 at bay!
The GT350 won’t top the Corvette.
I would hope not… That would be incredibly embarrassing for GM… They’ll probably have another recall soon anyways so they might as well fix their fleet disappointment while their fixing their faulty ignition keys that kill their customers.
There is NO track test on the 2016 GT350, so how can you say its faster than Corvette and 911? hahaha quick drinking the kool-aid rumors, there is NO facts on the GT350, just RUMORS
Mustang is always going to be the reining champion of the PONY car. Not long from now Chevrolet will again mothball the Camaro. Wait until they move production from the #1 GM facility in Canada to a USA plant and have to pay those higher wages etc… Costs that will be passed onto consumers! Bye bye Camaro!!!!!
erin the deal at the Michigan plant is already made and it will build cars of equal quality and economically. The Union there was willing to work with GM and was rewarded with the Alpha platform.
Funny that this GM site makes full knowledge of getting its butt kicked by the competitor FORD (NO TAXPAYERS BAILOUT MONEY HERE) that killed the Camaro previously, and is going to do it again. Come on over pony fans, Mustang has everything you need!!!!!! 🙂
And which pony car outsold the other for the past 5 years?(hint, its not the mustang)
erin this concept full acknowledging documented sales is called REALITY, you should try it. By keeping to the facts it gives you credibility.
Now see if you had your facts right you’re post may have been better accepted as Ford may have not been bailed out as they got loans several years earlier leveraging their plants as collateral. The reason GM did not get similar loans are because of the banking crisis that took place a year prior to the bail out. The banks just did not have the money to loan money to GM as they did Ford because their money crashed in the housing markets.
As for killing the Camaro the government loans had nothing to do with it. If you had done your home work you would have known that the 4th gen platform would not have passed the new crash standards and they had to stop production. You also would have know because of the tight money and the need for money on other projects GM had to stop the Camaro as there were more profitable lines higher volume lines that needed fixed.
The Government did not kill anything GM made their own choices.
The fact is most people here unlike you are playing with a full deck. They appreciate the Mustang and while they may not want to buy one understand it is a good car. They also understand with any new car their is increased demand for that car so the better sales numbers is not really a surprise. We will see the same thing next fall on the Camaro intro too. The real proof of a winner will come in a year or so once both have been out who can continue the lead.
So do yourself and the Mustang a favor and knock off the BS and grasp reality. You will lend a lot more credibility to the car and the fans who love the car.
The bottom line is you are not fooling many here and we laugh at you not with you.
FYI I would say the same to any Camaro fan who distorted the facts and behaved like a fool too.
Actually Ford still owes the Government money from the loan they took out, GM has paid their debt back. So with that in mind, should you really be making bailout jokes?
Yes Randy thanks for pointing out the Energy Department loans Ford took but their fan boys are either too ignorant to know about or want to remember.
Like Ford have done the mustang right lol…. Motor Trend still call it floaty on the IRS mustang GT compare to the camaro lol…. But on the other hand mustang has to outsell it since it is new And it’s expected. Regularly, it’s mustang outsells for a month and then camaro outsells for 5+months.
Looks like you’re completely off then…
“Regularly, it’s mustang outsells for a month and then camaro outsells for 5+months.”
Problem with your idiotic fanboyish statement is that the Mustang has outsold Camaro for the better part of 30+ years out of the 40+ years the two vehicles have been offered at the same time (that is excluding the 7 year hiatus of the Camaro because it was simply inferior).
That alone makes your statement look as retarded as it possibly could.
Ford obviously did the Mustang right, as sales are proving it. This recent article puts it into a better light (scroll down towards the bottom…)
http://www.torquenews.com/106/2015-ford-mustang-sales-grow-april-crushing-camaro-challenger
“Mustang Versus the Competition
While some critics will insist that these strong sales are due to the new 2015 Mustang and that same boom is to be expected of any brand new sports car, so I dug up the sales figures from the Chevrolet Camaro in its first year of existence in modern form. For those unsure, the Camaro was introduced for the 2010 model year in the summer of 2009 after the Camaro had been out of production since 2003. GM fans were frothing at the bit to finally have their muscle car back and when the Camaro arrived, it instantly became the bestselling performance car in America.
However, during the first 12 months of sales for the 5th generation Camaro, the best month was June 2009, when 9,320 Chevy muscle cars were sold. At no point in the first year of sales did the Camaro top 10,000 units and in the past four years in which I’ve been covering the muscle car segment sales, Camaro has only topped 10,000 units once – the Mustang has topped 12,000 each of the last two months.
In other words, when you compare the early success of the 2015 Ford Mustang to the early success of the current Chevrolet Camaro, the Mustang has a huge sales advantage, but it is hard to compare two calendar years that far apart, as the economic climate also plays a big part in performance car sales.
The big test will come when the 2016 Chevrolet Camaro hits the market later this year. It will be interesting to see if the new Camaro can match the insane sales figures of the new Mustang.”
Are you GM fanboys done being idiots?
And hopefully the next gen camaro won’t turn out to be this disastrous https://www.yahoo.com/autos/news/2015-mustang-gt-goes-flames-dealership-visit-130004488.html
If anything competition is key, without it you wouldn’t be seeing cars that we have today. I’m rooting for the mustang to be great, just so the camaro would be better.
I’m hoping for engines that will be comparable to the mustang. As much as I like the idea of a turbo 4, I’m hoping that there will be a low liter v6 in the works. I remember GM saying that they don’t want to put a turbo 4 in the camaro. So I’m hoping that they have another v6 in there, that’s comparable to the 2.3 ecoboost. Highly doubt it, but beings that the camaro is using the caddy’s alpha chassis. I’m almost hoping that they get to use the new 3.6 v6 that caddy is going to debut with the ct6, cts, and ats.
I’ve also read the ss will almost be as fun to drive as the zl1. Maybe not as fast or agile, but as fun. For almost half the price, it doesn’t sound to bad if you ask me. Oh man a month is almost unbearable to actually wait for the camaro debut.