Ford reported in November 2014 the largest number of Mustangs sold in any November since 2006. With 8278 sold last month, year-over-year Mustang volume jumped 62%.
It was also the best month for the Mustang since May of this year, when monthly U.S. Mustang volume jumped beyond 9000 units for just the third time in 23 months.
Yet, "best since 2006," doesn't sound nearly as good to the Mustang fan base as, "nearly twice as popular as Camaro," does it?
Although sales of the Chevrolet Camaro are up 5% through the first eleven months of 2014 and will rise beyond 80,000 units for the fifth consecutive year, Camaro volume slid 13% in November as the Mustang's big gains were accompanied by a 51% Dodge Challenger sales increase.
2014 looks to be the Camaro's year again – the Mustang hasn't outsold the Camaro since 2009 – as the Ford would need to outsell the Chevrolet by nearly 6600 units in December to top the year-end standings.
| Auto | November 2014 | November 2013 | % Change | 11 mos. 2014 | 11 mos. 2013 | % Change |
| Chevrolet Camaro | 4,385 | 5,068 | -13.5% | 79,669 | 75,552 | 5.4% |
| Dodge Challenger | 4,157 | 2,757 | 50.8% | 46,673 | 48,590 | -3.9% |
| Ford Mustang | 8,728 | 5,376 | 62.4% | 73,124 | 71,459 | 2.3% |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Total | 17,270 | 13,201 | 30.8% | 199,466 | 195,601 | 2.0% |
The Camaro's 13% November decline resulted in 4385 sales, just 228 more than the Challenger managed. The Mustang didn't quite double up the Camaro's total – the Ford's sales were only 89% stronger than the Chevrolet's.
But the conclusion, a predictable one, is obvious: a brand-new new sixth-generation Mustang was wildly more popular than a fifth-generation Camaro that's been around since 2009. Inevitably, the Mustang is a hot ticket: Ford says Mustangs spent an average of just eight days on dealer lots in November 2014. It's currently America's 29th-best-selling car. The Camaro ranks 26th.
And what about those eight-year-old figures? Ford sold 10,230 Mustangs in November 2006, a 7% decline from the 11,030 sold in November 2005. Oh, the blissful state of going it alone. The Camaro and Challenger were nonexistent back then.
Timothy Cain is the founder of GoodCarBadCar.net, which obsesses over the free and frequent publication of U.S. and Canadian auto sales figures.
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