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395,000 pony cars have been sold since April 2009... 222,000 of those sale were not Camaros and is far more than the majority. 55% of new car buyers chose to buy the competitions offerings and putting them side buy side in a parking lot (almost as they were sold on the lot) would see almost a 50/50 split between the two... add in the Challenger and the numbers would be smaller. That is until the Mustang III comes out and then Ford will reclaim a majority of the market again and attract the most attention... This is natural for a new product and claiming 45% of the market is really good... it just isn't permanent...
Edit: The ZL1 will not make a very big dent in the sales. By the time the ZL1 is released the sales numbers of the Camaro will be back down to the 5000-6000 average if not lower. The ZL1 will increase the monthly sales by 5-10%.... 10% is being generous and assumes that there will be close to 10,000 2012 ZL1's produced over a 6 month period. I believe that there will only be about 3000-5000 2012 ZL1's produced. Those 3000-4000 units would be taken directly from the regular production numbers and could easily be managed in 6 months without affecting regular production.
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