Ford Mustang Becomes World’s Best-Selling Sports Car

After just a year of global availability, the Ford Mustang has become the world’s best-selling sports coupe as demand for the iconic pony car remains insatiable. The Mustang is now available in 140 markets around the globe.

Ford analyzed the most recent registration data from IHS Automotive. The automaker found that it sold around 110,000 Mustang Coupes globally in 2015 – topping all other sports coupe competitors.

That record was achieved despite limited availability for most of the year in key markets like China and the United Kingdom, which only received its first deliveries late last summer. Ford sold around 30,000 Mustang Convertibles, bringing total Mustang sales to 141,868 vehicles, far outpacing all of its rivals.

“U.S. consumers have enjoyed interesting foreign sports cars for decades, so it was time for the Americans to return the favor with the worldwide launch of the new Mustang,” says Erich Merkle, Ford sales analyst. “Global markets have responded in a huge way. Ford Mustang was the only sports coupe in the world with more than 100,000 units registered last year.”

So far, Merkle notes, global customers are most interested in V8-equipped Mustangs.

More than 16,600 customers in Europe have ordered a Ford Mustang, which went on sale there last summer. Shipments from Flat Rock Assembly Plant began in the latter half of 2015, and of the 13,000 sold last year, 4,700 are now in customer hands.

In March, Mustang sales of 12,563 cars in the United States outsold both the new Chevrolet Camaro and Dodge Challenger combined. Mustang was the best-selling sports coupe in the U.S. for all of 2015 and through the first quarter of 2016, according to industry-reported numbers.

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Christopher DeMorro is a freelance writer and journalist from Connecticut with two passions in life; writing and anything with an engine.
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