Chevy Camaro Sales Rise 19 Percent To 6,277 Units In October 2016
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Chevrolet Camaro deliveries in the United States totaled 6,277 units in October 2016, an increase of just under 19 percent compared to the 5,289 units sold in October 2015. The results have enabled the sports car to deliver its best October retail sales performance since 2009.
In the first ten months of 2016, sales of the Chevy Camaro are down 9 percent to 60,812 units.
Sales Numbers - Chevrolet Camaro - October 2016 - United States
| MODEL | OCT 16 / OCT 15 | OCTOBER 16 | OCTOBER 15 | YTD 16 / YTD 15 | YTD 16 | YTD 15 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAMARO | +18.68% | 6,277 | 5,289 | -9.01% | 60,812 | 66,833 |
In Canada, the Camaro recorded 178 deliveries in October 2016, an increase of nearly 82 percent compared to October 2015. In the first ten months of the year, sales of the sports car total 2,450 units in Canada, just 5 more units compared to the first ten months of 2015.
Sales Numbers - Chevrolet Camaro - October 2016 - Canada
| MODEL | OCT 16 / OCT 15 | OCTOBER 16 | OCTOBER 15 | YTD 16 / YTD 15 | YTD 16 | YTD 15 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAMARO | +81.63% | 178 | 98 | +0.20% | 2,450 | 2,445 |
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What should be the headlines shouldn’t be that Chevy Camaro sales jump 19-percent as the fact that Chevy outsold Ford’s Mustang 6.277 vs 5,414 or 863 cars for October 2016.
That is all well and good but the report also does not mention that the increased sales are propped up by increased incentive spending.
Incentives bring the price in line where they should be. What a new SS costs compared to the one I bought in 2011 is inexcusable. Also, there’s no base model LS being produced yet. Those base cars made the Camaro a best seller. Bottom line is they’re pricing them outside the market. I would call them greedy with the new body style.
Don’t forget that the new Camaro is built on the vastly better and more expensive Alpha platform.
Everyone praises the ride, handling, body dynamics and overall performance. All that comes at a price.
Well the incentives are not helping the Dodge or Mustang. At least they are working on the Camaro.
The Sport Coupe market is just very weak and will remain so for the foreseeable future with the entire market getting sluggish.
I’m surprised that the Camaro is selling….I wouldn’t buy a 5th and 6th gen Camaro because of the horrible blind spots and clousterphoba…but Exterior looks cool and athletic but the beltline is too high and the roofline is too low….that is what keeps me from buying the Camero.
And that’s what makes you a great Prius candidate. I am about three weeks into my new gen 6 2SS and never once felt claustrophobic or worried about a lane change. Mirrors are your friend.
It’s just a dead horse comment perpetuated by people who probably have never attempted to drive one. The dimensions are what give it its menacing look. Not everyone wants to own a Jetson mobile.
Camaro is reserved for those that can at least spell it. Good day, sir.
I’m assuming you also find the v8 to be a fuel sipper, the trunk spacious and the rear seats comfortable?
I sometimes spell camaro as “coffin on wheels”. Probably why it isn’t reserved for me either.
I sat inside a 6th gen last week thinking I could convince myself it was livable. Blech. Im going to spend a little more for the Audi S4 since it can actually be driven confidently on public roads. And it’ll retain value. I used to be such a gm fan. This camaro and the caddy ats make me sad and I wonder if I’ll ever be able to buy a decent gm car again.
A few things could be happening,
Ford is also starting to cut fleet sales.
Lots of people were holding off for the incentives.
The Mustangs new design is starting to wear off, people that like them all ready bought them.
Although it looks good, it’s no home run.
This car was never intended to sell this cheap. This is clear considering how long they let inventory back up. It won’t be as profitable as they had hoped.
Great time to be in the market for a muscle car.
Well here is the deal. These are not the cars they once were. It used to be the Mustang was a fancy Falcon and the Camaro was a fancy Nova. They were based on econo coupes and sedans that sold in the hundreds of thousands. This made them cheap and easy to build.
Today the Camaro is based on a Cadillac platform and the Mustang is on a very expensive one model platform not sharing cost with anything else. This hurts profits.
They are also facing a market that is not flushed with coupe lovers anymore.
They have gone more expensive in hopes to keep profits up as sales drop. Also they need to find an answer to the future off these performance cars as they are going to hit a wall with CAFE. GM will continue to make the V8 but it will only become more limited and expensive to limit sales.
They are now pushing the V6 and 4 for a reason. They are offering the 1LE on the V6 for a reason.
Slapping a hybrid system on is not going to solve anything as this segment is not about environmental things even if they are fast. They love the feel and the sound of the V8 not the whine of gears from an electric motor.
The Chrysler is way over due for replacement. They have been making do with what they can. the Hellcat was a resurrected old program the engineers did to buy time. FCA has shown little love for the RWD cars there. They could be a profit center but most are discounted to where they make little on them.
The Mustang and Camaro are both is a tough segment now. Many of the people who have been buying these have been the Yuppies and the people who grew up around these. Many are now in their 60’s and 70’s now and finally are moving away from them. The younger gens as they get younger show less and less interest nor ability to afford them.
The ability to keep these cars cheap is slipping away. The market is making it harder to sell cars of all types anymore as it slows down. Incentives limit profits to where it could call into question could we build something else that would sell better and make more money. I pray that does not happen but there will be those in the companies that will push for this.
My suggestion is if you like this kind of car and you can afford it I would think about getting one in the next couple years as the future can be very uncertain. The cars may survive but they may be much different than what we have today or had in the past.
Now is the golden era and it may not return to what we have and if you are nostalgic for the old ways this may be as close as we will be again.
This is going to be a difficult conundrum for the makers and it will be interesting to see how they balance it out with CAFE, public demands, price and age groups.
The acceptance in the global market in the future and their market needs will also be weighed in this. Their numbers could provide a way to save the models but compromises for their markets will be looked at.
I’m really curious on what kind of profit the charger brings in, it’s an old shared platform that only offers a V8 and a V6. It doesn’t even offer a convertible option. Still brings in some pretty good sales.
Whoops I was talking about the Challenger.
Because it is an old platform it should make some money even with the incentives.
The problem is they could be making more money with less incentives.
By the time they get a new one out the segment may still be in a slump and depending on how they leverage the car profits may be difficult even then.
Ford needs to leverage the Mustang with Lincoln to help with platform volume. The near death of Lincoln may have left them with a single car platform and may take time to fix.
Even with a new platform Chevy is feeling the pinch of a slowing market and segment.
Many like to critic the styling and the visibility of the Camaro but the two things hurting it is the increase in cost and the lack of sales in the segment that all three are feeling.. Chevy may be doing better than Ford right now but that may be due to the newness of the car.
Ford has already gotten a restyle coming and I expect more performance as they are down compared to Chevy right now on equal terms. They knew it early on and got started early.
Dodge right now is treading water. While they are not totally failing due to brand loyalty they are not do as well as they could be profit wise. Sergio is the main problem and all he cares about is Jeep right now or maybe ever. Chrysler is his red headed step child that could be the brand that saves his company but he is letting them waste away car wise.
It is amazing Dodge is doing as well as they have with the old car. Most magazines will not even test it compared to the Mustang and Camaro as it lost to the old ones and has no chance with the new ones in a comparison. Thank God for the Engineers that did the Hellcat or they would be left out of the media altogether.
One of the few mis-steps from Alan Mulally was that he originally wanted to kill off Mercury AND Lincoln. Was persuaded to keep Lincoln because Ford needed a luxury division (like GM and Cadillac). However, Lincoln was starved of resources when Mulally was CEO of Ford.
Mark Fields is all-in with Lincoln. We’ll see what happens with Lincoln in the future with Fields as CEO.
Mulally came in to cut and slash the slow moving products and invest only in the big volume models. That is why the trucks CUV models and Fusion got so much attention.
Fields and Edsel Ford II are the two who were the driving force to save Lincoln. The problem is they still do not have a stand alone platform for their cars. They know it and want it but right now they really do not have the money to commit to it fully like GM did. Note Ford still has loans out for when they were going broke.
I was glad they were able to save them but they are right now where Cadillac was in the 90’s on standard bones for their products. With a market slow down it may be a while before they can get more to work with and may just have to do the best with what they have now. It is not a bad car but they are not going to be able to play with the big players yet. They can compete with Lexus and Buick well. It may not be a bad place to be as while profits are not as high they are not all that bad either. The cost of the car is spread out more with Ford so they should make good money,