Sportcar Ford

According to Detroit News, this week Ford will temporarily suspend the production of the Ford Mustang model at a factory in the Michigan town of Flat Rock. Reason - Storage in warehouses: expected stock delivery reached 89 days against optimal 60.

Fordow " Pony-Car " continues to hold first-hand in its segment of the American market: over 87,000 Mstangovs were found by buyers in nine months this year against 54, 5,000 Chevrolet Camaro vehicles. However, compared to the same period last year, demand fell by 9.3 per cent, and in September it fell by a third! In the first month of autumn Mustang and in the absolute, Camaro fell down, but it's only a little 6,429 against 6,577 cars. Although six-generation car sales began in 2014 brand sports Ford has consistently surpassed the opponent under the Chevrolet brand: in the past year, for example, 122,000 Mustagov v. 77, 5,000 Camaro were sold. In third place, Dodge Challenger (51, 5,000). And here's the stop of production.

Ford Mustang

The sunset of popularity? I don't think so. The thing is, in September, the General Motors concession offered to Chevrolet Camaro an attractive discount of up to $5,000. According to the GM, it was necessary to sell the remnants of cars of the outgoing model year, because the dealers are about to start a model year Camaro 2017. Includes version ZL1 with compressor motor V8 6.2 (659 ls) and new 10-stage automate.

Chevrolet Camaro

By the way, Camaro is much longer than Mustanga: at the end of August, it was 139 days and fell to 120 days in September. However, the production of sports cars in General Motors is not being suspended.