Runaway Commercial Vehicles Sales - Best April for 30 years

Media Release

2 May 2013

Runaway Commercial Vehicles Sales - Best April Sales for 30 Years

April new commercial vehicle registrations of 2235 vehicles were the highest April sales since 1982 when 2754 commercial vehicles were sold. Mr David Crawford, Chief Executive Officer of the Motor Industry Association said today that commercial vehicle sales continued their strong upward trend. He said commercial vehicles in April represents a 38% increase on April 2012 sales of 1618 new vehicles.

Year to date commercial vehicles registrations are an impressive 41% (2615 vehicles) above this time in 2012.

New passenger car sales of 5908 vehicles in April was also up 8.8% on April 2012 sales of 5430. Passenger registrations are running 3.2% (810 vehicles) ahead of this time 2012.

Mr Crawford said, “This result shows the commercial vehicle market remains strong, and well up on the levels of sales pre the global financial crisis. Commercial vehicle registrations continue to perform at levels last seen in the mid 1980’s.”

Toyota remains the market leader taking 19.3% of total registrations with 1,477 registrations (918 passenger cars and 559 commercials). Ford was second overall with 944 new vehicle registrations and Holden third with 748 new vehicle registrations. Holden was second in the passenger car segment with 588 registrations followed by Hyundai with 542.

The top selling passenger car model for the month was the Suzuki Swift with 307 sales, followed by Toyota Corolla with 287 sales, with the 3rd equal position going to the Mazda CX – 5 and Toyota RAV 4 each selling 205 cars. In the commercial segment the Ford Ranger was the top selling model with 416 vehicles sold, followed by the Toyota Hilux (360 vehicles) and Nissan Navara on 212 vehicles.

For the month of April the SUV segment remained the most popular with 27.7% of total registrations. This was followed by the Pick Up/Chassis Cab segment which accounted for 19% of all registrations.

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Attachments

Sheet 1: Detailed figures for top 15 distributors, full year 2012, month of April 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 April and year to date 2013.

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