Mustang sales for December 05 were down 23% from December 04 (10,223 in 05 vs 13,342 in 04).
For the calander year 2005 Mustang sales were 160,975. Although 2005 was the best year for Mustang sales since 2001, things aren't all that rosy.
Sales for the S197 Mustang have not been good for the last 6 months. In the 6 months from July - Dec 05 only 64,964 Mustangs were sold which is an annual sales rate of 129,928. That is lower than the annual sales of SN95 for any of the years that SN95 was in production for the full year.
When it was new, the old SN95 Mustang out sold the new S197 selling 166,915 in 1999, 173,676 in 2000 and 169,198 in 2001.
Yeah now comes the time when the dealer network hurts Ford by trying to charge too much for the cars. The market has really cooled off and inventories swollen, hopefully the dealers will get the message and start selling them like normal cars instead of gold-plated ones.