New Commercial Registrations Going Gangbusters

Media Release

2 October 2013

New Commercial Registrations Going Gangbusters

New vehicle sales of 10,070 for the month of September have continued the upward trend for 2013. In particular the September registrations of new commercial vehicles is going gangbusters, says David Crawford, Chief Executive Officer of the Motor Industry Association.

Toyota remains the market leader for the month of September with 22.0% market share (2220 units) with Ford second on 11.2% and Holden third with 9.1%.

Mr Crawford said, “In the month of September new commercial vehicle registrations were 2799, the highest September new commercial registrations since the MIA began collecting records in 1981”. There were 746 more new commercial registrations compared to September 2012, an increase of 36%. Year to date registrations are 25.7% ahead over the same period in 2012.

Passenger car sales YTD were up 6.5% on the same period last year with 7272 new cars sold in September. The top selling passenger cars in September were Toyota 21.2% market share (1544 units), followed by Hyundai with 9.5% market share (693 units) and Ford with 8.9% (603 units). The Toyota Corolla was the top selling model with 8% market share, followed by Toyota Rav4 with 5% and Toyota Yaris at 3%. The Mazda3 and Suzuki Swift were the next best-selling models, also with 3% each of market share.

The top selling commercial vehicles were Toyota (24.2%), Ford (17.3%) and Holden (11%). The top selling commercial models were the Ford Ranger with 15% market share (425 units), followed by Toyota Hilux with 15% (406 units) and Holden Colorado at 10% market share (283 units). Year to date the Toyota Hilux remains the top selling commercial vehicle with 3602 registrations (16% market share) closely followed by the Ford Ranger with 3392 registrations (15% market share).

The sale of sports utility vehicles represented 27% of all vehicles sales in September, followed by small passenger cars at 21% and pick-ups/chassis-cabs at 19%.

Mr David Crawford, Chief Executive Officer of the Motor Industry Association said today that September registrations of 10,070 new vehicles confirms what many economists have been saying, that economic confidence is growing.

ENDS.

Attachments

Sheet 1: Detailed figures for top 15 distributors, full year 2012, month of September and year to date 2013, total vehicles, new cars and new commercials.

Sheet 2: Detailed figures for top 15 selling models - passenger cars and commercials- full year 2012, month of September and year to date 2013.

Sheet 3: MIA segmentation full year 2012, September 2013 and year to date 2013.

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