2006 new vehicle sales slightly down

Media Release
8 January 2007

2006 new vehicle sales slightly down

2006 saw a slight decline in the number of new vehicles sold from the peak year of 2005. In figures just released by Land Transport, 5468 new cars and 1601 new commercial vehicles were sold in December, bringing the full year total to 99,986 new vehicles, 3.3% down on 2005’s record of 103,448.

“After five years of solid growth in new vehicle sales, a levelling-out was inevitable,” said Perry Kerr, CEO of the Motor Industry Association. “The industry is in good heart and sales volumes have settled at a vastly healthier level than we were experiencing at the end of the nineties. We’re expecting 2007 to produce a similar level of sales to 2006.”

Toyota finished the year with a flourish to take total market leadership by over 4700 units from Ford. At the same time Corolla almost caught Commodore for best selling model of 2006, finishing just 79 units adrift.

Sheet 1: Top fifteen distributors, full year 2005, month of December and YTD 2006, total vehicles, new cars, new commercials.

http://img.scoop.co.nz/media/pdfs/0701/December_06_sales_tables.xls

Sheet 2: Top fifteen sellers by model, full year 2005, month of December and YTD 2006, top ten rental cars December 2006.

http://img.scoop.co.nz/media/pdfs/0701/Registration_data_1975_onwards.xls

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