The Camaro pounds the Mustang, Challenger in January

The winter months are generally slow for the rear wheel drive performance car segment but all three of the legendary American muscle cars saw positive growth in January 2012. However, with an improvement of almost 20% over January 2011, the Chevrolet Camaro lead the segment in both sales and growth rate. It has been a surprisingly warm winter for most which could be helping the sales of these performance models but regardless of the cause – it looks like those predictions of the American muscle car dying off may have been a bit premature.

The Chevrolet Camaro Coupe and Convertible saw 5,709 new units leave the dealerships last month; an increase of 19.9% over the 4,763 units they sold in the first month of 2011. The Camaro lead in sales every month last year but one and with a strong start in 2012 – General Motors surely hopes to make this year the third straight year where the Camaro is the best selling muscle car in the US market. As production of the 2012 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 has officially begun, we can expect to see some increase in sales from that new super high performance model but with production numbers expected to be very low – there shouldn’t be all that much impact on their overall market share.

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