Cars we love to drive won’t be pushed out by consumer and automaker obsession with crossovers and SUVs—not yet.
was backlogged for 2020. So far in 2022, Chevy has delivered 25,380, which topped the Bolt/Bolt EUV by 3368 units for the period. Last year’s C8 sales totaled 24,794 for the period, nine units short of the electric Chevy.
Both calendar ’21 and ’22 sales are way up from the C8’s first model year, 2020, when just 12,635 Corvettes were delivered, according to salesCorvette demand remains strong, a Chevrolet spokesman says, and while the just-launched Z06 has “only heightened” interest in the C8, he did not answer whether supply has caught up. “Along with our full-size SUVs and pickups, we did prioritize Corvette production to limit any potential issues related to semiconductors and have been pretty successful thus far. The issues we’ve been facing are not related to semiconductor availability,” the spokesman said.These brands have three discontinued sports cars, all counted in the totals above. One Dodge Viper was sold YTD ’22, down from two last year. One Alfa Romeo 4c was sold, down from 76, and 24 Fiat Spiders were sold YTD ’22, down from 932.The F-Type goes out of production after 2024. Jaguar sold 961 F-Types through September, down 37.9% from 1548 deliveries for the same period in 2021, according to Wards Intelligence data.Toyota’s luxury brand sold 993 LCs in the first nine months, down 58.3% from the same period in 2021, and sold one LFA last year.MX-5 Miata sales were more than halved to 4571 so far this year from 9608 same period last year. While it’s no surprise that sales of the ND Miata are leveling off after five model years, it looks like Mazda is concentrating on its growing crossover lineup.Sold 2420 AMG-GTs this year so far, off 13.8% but still better than the SL, which was up 79.7% to 823 units. Mercedes sold 228 of its discontinued SLCs in the first nine months last year—counted in the total above—and zero this year.Just 86 sold year-to-date ’22, all the redesigned 2023 model, compared with 56 of the outgoing 370Z sold in the first three quarters of 2021.The inverse of the Z for this well-aged supercar, with 56 sold YTD ’22, compared with 167 for YTD ’21.
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