Ford Mustang Is The Top-Selling Muscle Car

And then there was one, the Ford Mustang, making it by default the best-selling muscle car in America. That’s right, the Blue Oval is taking a victory lap after sales figures for 2024 show the Mustang outsold the Chevy Camaro and Dodge Challenger.

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It’s kind of hard to lose a race when you aren’t running against anyone else, and sadly that’s how the muscle car scene is these days. Even though Mustang sales fell for 2024 versus 2023, 44,003 were sold during the year.

Normally, those numbers wouldn’t be all that great, but Dodge only sold 27,056 Challengers last year. That’s still an impressive number considering those were all leftovers as production completely ceased by the close of 2023. Even in death the Mopar remains popular.

The Chevy Camaro was in a similar situation, yet it only racked up 5,859 sales for 2024, making for more of a whimper. Sadly, that’s suiting for the sixth-gen muscle car. Consumers never really took to it.

It’s worth mentioning that for 2023 the Mustang did leap past the Challenger for total sales. But when it came to Charger sales, well that was a different story. Some people don’t consider those to be muscle cars since they have four doors and some practicality to them. We’re not quite so pedantic.

What’s really interesting about Mustang sales last year is it was the first full year of sales for the new S650 generation. Usually when a new generation of a popular vehicle launches, people flock to it like crazy. Yet that didn’t happen. So even though Ford claimed the title of the best-selling muscle car in America, there’s still some bad news for its little pony.

With rough economic waters, we think a lot of people are pulling back on buying fun cars, which could help explain why the Mustang didn’t score way more sales last year.

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