Ford's Mustang Is Officially the American Sports Car to Beat
Where's Camaro, and what happened to the pony car race?
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After years of champing at the bit, Ford Motor’s Mustang is opening a huge lead in the race for the pony car market.
In the first five months of the year, drivers keen on an American sports car bought 56,571 Mustangs, a 55 percent increase from a year earlier. At the same time, Mustang's closest competitor, Chevrolet’s Camaro, went into a skid: Only 33,982 of the vehicles drove off the lot through May, a 13 percent decline.