Ford Mustang is Best-Selling Sports Car on the Planet; 15,000 Mustangs Sold in Europe in 2016
Ford Mustang has been the best-selling sports car in the U.S. during the past fifty years, and now thanks to growing popularity in Europe and elsewhere, the iconic pony car is the most popular sports car in the world, according to Ford analysis of IHS Markit fresh vehicle registration data in the sports car segment.
Mustang expanded its sales lead in two thousand sixteen as the world’s best-selling sports car, with more than 150,000 Mustangs sold, according to IHS Markit fresh vehicle registration data. Overall global sales enlargened six per cent over 2015, fuelled by non-U.S. market growth up one hundred one per cent with almost 45,000 Mustang vehicles sold outside the U.S.
In the very first utter year of sales in Europe, customers ordered 15,335 Mustangs across the region.* Mustang was the best-selling sports car in European markets including France, Sweden, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Finland and Greece.
“From the Arctic Circle to the Mediterranean, the Ford Mustang has topped the sports car sales charts in markets across Europe,” said Roelant de Waard, vice president, Marketing, Sales & Service, Ford of Europe. “European customers proceed to play a significant role in the global success of Mustang. The iconic sports car’s popularity with drivers of all ages and backgrounds shows no sign of waning – we sold Trio,600 Mustangs in the region during the very first three months of 2017.”
Mustang’s ascension to best-selling sports car in the world in two thousand sixteen was driven largely by continued global rollout that eyed big sales gains in markets including Germany and China, as well as the car’s introduction to smaller territories such as Fresh Caledonia, Gibraltar and Bonaire.
Since launching in China in 2015, Mustang has become the best-selling sports car in the world’s fattest auto market. Mustang sales in two thousand sixteen were up seventy four per cent over 2015, according to IHS Markit fresh vehicle registrations.
Mustang – with more than 8.Four million likes – is the most-liked vehicle on Facebook, and is now available in one hundred forty countries across all continents other than Antarctica. The Ford Mustang in Europe is available with Ford’s four hundred twenty one PS Five.0-litre V8 or three hundred seventeen PS Two.3‑litre EcoBoost engines, and six-speed manual or automatic transmissions.
Ford recently introduced two fresh special edition Ford Mustang models with unique styling and premium specifications for customers in Europe.
The Ford Mustang Black Shadow Edition is suggested with the Five.0-litre V8 engine, six-speed manual or six-speed automatic transmission, and in four figure colour options – Platinum White, Triple Yellow, Race Crimson and Grabber Blue. Unique bodystyling includes a black Pony emblem for the GT grille; sensational black 19-inch Y‑spoke alloy wheels; dissolve-effect black stripes along the prominent bonnet bulge ridges and across the body-side inbetween the lower wheel arches; and black Five.0-litre badges on the front wings.
The Ford Mustang Blue Edition channels the spirit of classic Mustang models that featured eye-catching “Grabber” colours, suggesting the Grabber Blue exterior figure colour enhanced with central dissolve-effect black bonnet and roof stripes, and black 19-inch multi-spoke alloys wheels. Powertrain options include both Five.0-litre V8 and Two.3‑litre EcoBoost engines, with manual or automatic transmissions.
*The Euro twenty markets are: Austria, Belgium, Britain, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Romania, Sweden and Switzerland.
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