September New Vehicle Sales Remain Strong

September New Vehicle Sales Remain Strong

Buoyed by the 1st of October GST increase and coupled with strong rental vehicle sales plus fleet catch ups, September new passenger car registrations were 12.6% ahead of 2009 with commercial vehicles 13.3% ahead over the same period.

New passenger car registrations of 6,298 units were 12.6% ahead of September 2009 and 13.6% up on a year to date basis. There were 1,646 commercial vehicle registrations which were 13.3% up for the month and on a year to date basis 15.8% ahead of 2009 registrations.

Breaking the market down, in total sales for September, Toyota was first followed by Ford, Holden and Mazda. For year to date the pattern is repeated and in fact in comparing places with full year 2009 the top nine places are identical with minor changes to market share. For new passenger cars the top four ranking is repeated; Toyota (1,479) followed by Ford (827), Holden (491) and Mazda (477). Commercial vehicles saw Toyota first (418), Ford (253), Nissan (241) and Mitsubishi (132).

In the individual models stake the Toyota Corolla was the best selling passenger car and overall model for the month with 631 registrations, followed by the Toyota Camry (356). The third best selling car was a Ford Focus with 280 registrations. In the commercial segment the top selling model was again the Toyota Hilux (261), with the Nissan Navara second (219) and the Ford Ranger third (142).

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