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GM sold 1,949,920 after the first three quarters of the year, Toyota has year-to-date total US deliveries of 1,729,519 vehicles, and Ford Motor Company trails them from a distance – with 1,548,172 total sales. However, it's not all roses and daffodils – especially for General Motors.
That's because the largest US automaker saw its deliveries slow down by one percent over the January through September period, while Toyota is on the rise with a 6.2% surge, and Ford also posted some pretty positive numbers through a 2.7% increase in deliveries.
Even worse, GM notes that Chevrolet slipped three percent during the three quarters.
The situation is even worse in terms of passenger cars – save for the Corvette, which surged a meager 1.1% to 25,711 sales, the Malibu mid-size sedan was down more than 16% (though still, it delivered over 93k units), and the deceased sixth-generation Camaro had an abysmal fall of almost 77% to just 5,750 units.
Meanwhile, Ford's Mustang, the only passenger car left in the lineup, hit over 36k sales during the three quarters, an increase of 3.3% compared to the same period last year.
However, GM doesn't have an answer for the rising popularity of the Mustang – the C8 Chevy Corvette plays in a different league, and the only moments when they cross paths are at the local quarter-mile dragstrip or when you look at the highest-priced Mustang Dark Horse Premium against the base C8 Corvette Stingray Coupe sans Z51.
As such, some folks – including across the parallel universes of vehicular CGI – strongly believe Chevrolet should still have an answer to the S650 seventh-gen Ford Mustang.
Thus, the imaginative guild of digital car content creators is hard at work coming up with virtual design project ideas.
For example, the good folks over at the Q Cars channel on YouTube now aim to daze and amaze the audience with a potential styling of their vision for a reborn Chevy Nova SS.
Unofficially and hypothetically reinvented as a mid-size two-door coupe offering, this modern Nova SS isn't a small and nimble 'muscle' car anymore – it's a stylish coupe with sports car DNA and GT looks.
As such, it's not only perfect as a direct rival of the S650 seventh-generation Ford Mustang but could also serve to fill in the void left by the iconic Camaro and the affordable Malibu sedan at the same time.
It could easily get the high-output 2.7-liter turbo four-pot with 310 hp from the Colorado truck as well as Stingray's 490-hp V8 and – if pricing is right – serve as a foil to the S650 Ford Mustang in Chevy's lineup. So, what do you think of this perspective?
