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The Publication

This publication presents monthly information on sales of new motor vehicles in each state/territory in original, seasonally adjusted and trend estimated terms. The original data are sourced from the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries. Sales data are available for passenger vehicles, sports utility vehicles (SUVs), other vehicles and total vehicles at the state/territory and national levels.

APRIL 2006 KEY POINTS

Trend

The April 2006 trend estimate for total sales of new motor vehicles (80,372) decreased 0.2% compared with the March 2006 estimate. Trend estimates have been declining since March 2005.

The trend estimate for sales of passenger vehicles decreased 0.2% in April 2006 compared with March 2006 and sports utility vehicles recorded a decrease of 0.4% over the same period. There was no change in the trend estimate for other vehicles.

Trend estimates for passenger vehicles and sports utility vehicles have been in decline for a number of months, with passenger vehicles decreasing since May 2005 and sports utility vehicles since October 2005. The trend estimate for other vehicles has changed very little since January 2006.

Trend estimates have been decreasing for Victoria since September 2005 and for South Australia since November 2005. Northern Territory trend estimates have been increasing since December 2005.

Seasonally adjusted

The April 2006 seasonally adjusted estimate for total sales of new motor vehicles (79,734) increased 0.5% compared with the March 2006 estimate.

South Australia and Victoria had the largest increases during this period, increasing 10.1% and 3.4% respectively. Tasmania had the largest decrease of 6.7%.

Over this period, passenger vehicles increased 1.4%, sports utility vehicles decreased 1.1% and other vehicles decreased 0.9%.

	NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
Vehicle sales
Seasonally adjusted	24 203	20 595	17 362	5 335	8 787	1 500	753	1 199	79 734
Trend	24 931	20 515	17 528	5 147	8 674	1 577	781	1 219	80 372
Percentage change from previous month
Seasonally adjusted	-2.2	3.4	-1.5	10.1	2.1	-6.7	-2.0	-1.6	0.5
Trend	-0.0	-0.8	0.1	-0.3	0.2	0.3	0.4	0.3	-0.2
Percentage change from previous year
Seasonally adjusted	-7.7	-3.7	-7.4	-1.6	6.5	-9.0	-4.7	1.9	-4.7
Trend	-4.3	-4.4	-4.3	-5.1	7.4	-7.9	-3.3	-3.5	-3.3

ISSUE	RELEASE DATE
May 2006	22 June 2006
June 2006	21 July 2006
July 2006	22 August 2006
August 2006	21 September 2006
September 2006	20 October 2006
October 2006	21 November 2006

Table 1: New motor vehicle sales by type of vehicle

		Passenger vehicles (No.)	Sports utility vehicles (No.)	Other vehicles (No.)	Total vehicles (No.)	Change passenger vehicles (%)	Change sports utility vehicles (%)	Change other vehicles (%)	Change total vehicles (%)
Original
2005	February	50 640	15 526	14 975	81 141	17.6	11.9	17.3	16.4
	March	53 282	17 454	15 902	86 638	5.2	12.4	6.2	6.8
	April	46 651	13 812	16 024	76 487	-12.4	-20.9	0.8	-11.7
	May	50 463	15 430	18 061	83 954	8.2	11.7	12.7	9.8
	June	60 781	18 317	23 047	102 145	20.4	18.7	27.6	21.7
	July	49 016	13 822	15 803	78 641	-19.4	-24.5	-31.4	-23.0
	August	53 648	15 173	17 356	86 177	9.4	9.8	9.8	9.6
	September	52 118	15 080	17 242	84 440	-2.9	-0.6	-0.7	-2.0
	October	48 434	12 503	15 181	76 118	-7.1	-17.1	-12.0	-9.9
	November	52 751	14 252	16 535	83 538	8.9	14.0	8.9	9.7
	December	47 945	15 046	16 286	79 277	-9.1	5.6	-1.5	-5.1
2006	January	43 761	13 251	12 991	70 003	-8.7	-11.9	-20.2	-11.7
	February	48 483	13 506	15 457	77 446	10.8	1.9	19.0	10.6
	March	53 188	15 896	18 072	87 156	9.7	17.7	16.9	12.5
	April	42 307	11 901	14 442	68 650	-20.5	-25.1	-20.1	-21.2
Seasonally adjusted
2005	February	52 567	16 342	16 192	85 101	0.7	2.2	-5.8	-0.3
	March	50 087	15 908	15 759	81 754	-4.7	-2.7	-2.7	-3.9
	April	51 350	15 249	17 050	83 649	2.5	-4.1	8.2	2.3
	May	50 879	14 657	16 635	82 171	-0.9	-3.9	-2.4	-1.8
	June	51 157	14 384	16 650	82 191	0.5	-1.9	0.1	0.0
	July	50 979	14 740	16 538	82 257	-0.3	2.5	-0.7	0.1
	August	51 679	14 788	17 276	83 743	1.4	0.3	4.5	1.8
	September	51 553	15 924	17 041	84 518	-0.2	7.7	-1.4	0.9
	October	48 617	14 095	16 367	79 079	-5.7	-11.5	-4.0	-6.4
	November	50 155	13 892	16 524	80 571	3.2	-1.4	1.0	1.9
	December	49 582	15 038	16 752	81 372	-1.1	8.2	1.4	1.0
2006	January	51 309	14 778	17 002	83 089	3.5	-1.7	1.5	2.1
	February	50 179	14 234	16 733	81 146	-2.2	-3.7	-1.6	-2.3
	March	48 573	14 038	16 725	79 336	-3.2	-1.4	-0.0	-2.2
	April	49 274	13 880	16 580	79 734	1.4	-1.1	-0.9	0.5
Trend
2005	February	51 177	15 678	16 410	83 265	0.4	0.2	0.2	0.3
	March	51 236	15 548	16 453	83 237	0.1	-0.8	0.3	-0.0
	April	51 263	15 316	16 531	83 110	0.1	-1.5	0.5	-0.2
	May	51 251	15 068	16 636	82 955	0.0	-1.6	0.6	-0.2
	June	51 198	14 850	16 737	82 785	-0.1	-1.4	0.6	-0.2
	July	51 070	14 723	16 813	82 606	-0.3	-0.9	0.5	-0.2
	August	50 887	14 705	16 831	82 423	-0.4	-0.1	0.1	-0.2
	September	50 635	14 718	16 791	82 144	-0.5	0.1	-0.2	-0.3
	October	50 373	14 704	16 754	81 831	-0.5	-0.1	-0.2	-0.4
	November	50 179	14 634	16 738	81 551	-0.4	-0.5	-0.1	-0.3
	December	50 039	14 528	16 724	81 291	-0.3	-0.7	-0.1	-0.3
2006	January	49 927	14 417	16 727	81 071	-0.2	-0.8	0.0	-0.3
	February	49 790	14 308	16 738	80 836	-0.3	-0.8	0.1	-0.3
	March	49 609	14 177	16 737	80 523	-0.4	-0.9	-0.0	-0.4
	April	49 505	14 124	16 743	80 372	-0.2	-0.4	0.0	-0.2

		NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
		(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)
Original
2005	February	25 772	20 642	17 868	5 494	7 894	1 432	777	1 262	81 141
	March	27 528	22 031	19 171	5 471	8 633	1 574	889	1 341	86 638
	April	24 354	19 557	16 831	5 048	7 339	1 375	859	1 124	76 487
	May	26 248	21 964	18 285	5 549	8 080	1 641	913	1 274	83 954
	June	30 745	25 493	24 656	6 586	10 013	2 052	1 185	1 415	102 145
	July	24 998	20 025	17 631	4 813	7 727	1 438	767	1 242	78 641
	August	26 292	22 550	19 330	5 458	8 714	1 689	751	1 393	86 177
	September	25 457	22 044	18 344	5 243	9 125	2 151	793	1 283	84 440
	October	22 949	20 289	16 026	5 030	8 349	1 655	659	1 161	76 118
	November	25 716	22 428	17 181	5 500	9 107	1 667	690	1 249	83 538
	December	23 054	22 110	16 208	5 335	8 664	2 080	690	1 136	79 277
2006	January	21 995	17 876	15 107	4 380	7 604	1 295	616	1 130	70 003
	February	24 495	19 979	16 452	5 085	8 165	1 373	731	1 166	77 446
	March	27 165	21 461	19 833	5 195	9 750	1 540	913	1 299	87 156
	April	21 171	17 636	14 820	4 619	7 507	1 129	764	1 004	68 650
Seasonally adjusted
2005	February	26 933	21 647	18 760	5 666	8 217	1 705	851	1 322	85 101
	March	26 256	21 088	17 331	5 362	7 781	1 774	787	1 375	81 754
	April	26 210	21 397	18 754	5 422	8 250	1 649	790	1 177	83 649
	May	25 297	21 512	18 153	5 423	8 114	1 660	784	1 228	82 171
	June	25 048	21 416	18 619	5 247	8 005	1 797	860	1 199	82 191
	July	25 360	21 355	18 172	5 186	8 452	1 620	817	1 295	82 257
	August	25 967	21 785	18 273	5 257	8 729	1 627	804	1 301	83 743
	September	26 015	21 691	18 330	5 313	9 014	2 007	842	1 306	84 518
	October	23 609	20 690	17 447	5 225	8 589	1 600	735	1 184	79 079
	November	24 436	21 349	17 238	5 304	8 855	1 472	716	1 201	80 571
	December	24 793	21 669	17 423	5 250	8 700	1 579	773	1 185	81 372
2006	January	25 786	21 437	18 099	5 301	8 787	1 606	817	1 256	83 089
	February	25 443	20 983	17 288	5 246	8 534	1 637	795	1 220	81 146
	March	24 736	19 926	17 631	4 844	8 605	1 608	768	1 218	79 336
	April	24 203	20 595	17 362	5 335	8 787	1 500	753	1 199	79 734
Trend
2005	February	26 427	21 581	18 002	5 445	8 011	1 735	778	1 286	83 265
	March	26 271	21 513	18 183	5 446	8 032	1 724	793	1 275	83 237
	April	26 044	21 465	18 318	5 421	8 079	1 712	808	1 263	83 110
	May	25 803	21 453	18 395	5 368	8 159	1 703	819	1 255	82 955
	June	25 576	21 451	18 397	5 304	8 284	1 699	822	1 252	82 785
	July	25 378	21 452	18 310	5 261	8 441	1 692	817	1 255	82 606
	August	25 208	21 458	18 157	5 249	8 610	1 678	805	1 258	82 423
	September	25 047	21 451	17 954	5 259	8 736	1 653	790	1 254	82 144
	October	24 941	21 431	17 752	5 271	8 794	1 625	777	1 240	81 831
	November	24 901	21 374	17 621	5 270	8 789	1 602	769	1 225	81 551
	December	24 914	21 260	17 553	5 250	8 740	1 589	770	1 215	81 291
2006	January	24 965	21 092	17 530	5 219	8 696	1 583	774	1 212	81 071
	February	24 989	20 892	17 524	5 187	8 673	1 579	778	1 214	80 836
	March	24 943	20 682	17 511	5 161	8 661	1 572	778	1 215	80 523
	April	24 931	20 515	17 528	5 147	8 674	1 577	781	1 219	80 372
(a) Seasonally adjusted numbers of new motor vehicle sales in Tasmania, Northern Territory and Australian Capital Territory should be used with caution. For further information, see paragraph 7 of the Explanatory Notes.