August 2010

Camaro sales - 6321
Mustang sales - 5570
Challenger sales - 3283

Sources -

GM
Ford
Chrysler

 

Go Camaro!

-Geoff

 

That's a little bit more than three vehicles different.

 

poor challanger. id like to see it take second one of these months. so the camaro is 16 for 17 in leading months?

 

Wow, I had not expected the Camaro to knock off the new Mustang that quickly.

90's role reversal anyone.

 

Pretty killer the the Camaro is maintaing those numbers thru the 2011 MY without any kind of rebates or incentives. Proved me the hell wrong, I thought the Camaro would come on strong and sales would dwindle away after the buzz wore off. And they still have a Z and vert coming to throw in the sales mix.

 

I know someone who took delivery of one of those Camaros in August.

It's a real testament to this car that it's beating out the Mustang despite Fords just about complete redesign, new engines, and full lineup. Quite impressive.

 

The Challenger doesn't sell more because they don't build more.
They cap Chally production at a certain % of total production of the Bramton, ON plant.
That's the way Chrysler wants it.
I'm sure Guion could give us the actual numbers.

Don't worry about Challenger. They're selling every one of them they build. And rather quickly. I had a hard time finding mine last year. It took me about a month & half to find one I could live with and it was located 3 states away.

 

That kinda seems backwards. The goal is to sell as many cars as they can. Are they trying to promote exclusivity?

 

They also build the Charger and 300

They KNOW they will sell the Challengers,
but they will sell more Chargers/300s than Challengers.

At least thats how I'd see it.

 

My guess is that the plant has only so much capacity. So they had to find a balance between building their high sales volume vehicles and a low sales volume niche vehicle.

So they build enough to make money on the Challenger investment but not too many that would take away production (and therefore profit) of their bread & butter cars.

Quite frankly I like it that way. It keeps you from seeing a Chally at every corner.

 

Makes perfect sense to me! Thanks.

 

As a matter of fact, if you look back at Challenger's monthy sales since MY2009, I think you would find that they sell close to the sme number of Challys per month.
Sales doesn't really go up or down. If they sell around 3,200 of them a month, that equates to about 38,000 per year.
And I think that's just about the exact number Chrysler needed to sell to have it be a successful endeavor.

 

That was quick. I guess the pent up demand for the new Mustang wasn't so pent up hehehe

 

Challengers sales arent on fire here . My next door neighbor owns a local dodge dealer , he's had about 7 srt's that are lot decorations . I mean they do sell , but do linger around for awhile .