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APRIL KEY FIGURES

	NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
Vehicle sales (no.)
Trend	26 087	22 768	17 689	5 143	9 251	1 424	829	1 319	84 511
Seasonally Adjusted	25 958	22 489	17 992	5 047	9 299	1 406	839	1 301	84 332
Change from previous month (%)
Trend	-0.5	-0.6	1.7	-0.9	0.1	-2.2	-0.2	-0.2	-0.1
Seasonally Adjusted	-5.1	-3.5	-3.4	-1.8	-0.3	-3.3	1.6	-1.8	-3.5
Change from previous year (%)
Trend	-0.9	-4.1	0.5	-8.3	-2.6	-13.9	-3.5	-3.7	-2.5
Seasonally Adjusted	-3.2	-13.2	0.5	-11.9	-21.0	-15.5	-2.2	-6.2	-8.4
(a) Seasonally adjusted numbers of new motor vehicle sales in Tasmania, Northern Territory and Australian Capital Territory should be used with caution. For more information, see paragraph 7 of the Explanatory Notes.

New Motor Vehicle Sales, Total vehicles - Short term

• Trend - The April 2011 trend estimate (84,511) has decreased by 0.1% when compared with March 2011.
• Seasonally Adjusted - The April 2011 seasonally adjusted estimate for new motor vehicle sales (84 332) decreased by 3.5% when compared with March 2011.

• Trend - When comparing national trend estimates for April 2011 with March 2011, sales of Passenger vehicles decreased by 0.5%. Sports utility and Other vehicles increased by 0.3% and 0.8% respectively over the same period.
• Seasonally Adjusted - When comparing seasonally adjusted estimates for April 2011 with March 2011, sales of Passenger vehicles increased by 22 units (0.0%), Sports utility and Other vehicles decreased by 9.6% and 5.5% respectively.

• Six of the eight states and territories have experienced a decrease in the trend estimate for new motor vehicle sales when comparing April 2011 with March 2011. Tasmania recorded the largest percentage decrease with 2.2%, followed by South Australia (0.9%) and Victoria (0.6%). Queensland recorded the largest increase of 1.7% over the same period.
• In seasonally adjusted terms, sales of new motor vehicles decreased in seven of the eight states and territories for April 2011 when compared with March 2011. New South Wales recorded the largest percentage decrease of 5.1%, followed by Victoria (3.5%) and Queensland (3.4%). Over the same period the Northern Territory recorded the only increase (1.6%).

New Motor Vehicle Sales, Total vehicles - Long term

New Motor Vehicle Sales, Total vehicles - Short term

New motor vehicle sales by type of vehicle by month
		Passenger vehicles	Sports utility vehicles	Other vehicles	Total vehicles	Change Passenger vehicles	Change Sports utility vehicles	Change Other vehicles	Change Total vehicles
		no.	no.	no.	no.	%	%	%	%
Trend
2010
	February	49 360	18 908	17 557	85 824	1.5	1.2	-0.5	1.0
	March	49 884	19 007	17 484	86 375	1.1	0.5	-0.4	0.6
	April	50 047	19 119	17 475	86 641	0.3	0.6	-	0.3
	May	49 794	19 345	17 478	86 616	-0.5	1.2	-	-
	June	49 178	19 710	17 423	86 311	-1.2	1.9	-0.3	-0.4
	July	48 506	20 080	17 317	85 903	-1.4	1.9	-0.6	-0.5
	August	48 111	20 283	17 167	85 560	-0.8	1.0	-0.9	-0.4
	September	48 051	20 261	16 993	85 305	-0.1	-0.1	-1.0	-0.3
	October	48 244	20 032	16 903	85 178	0.4	-1.1	-0.5	-0.1
	November	48 486	19 686	16 955	85 128	0.5	-1.7	0.3	-0.1
	December	48 560	19 347	17 124	85 030	0.2	-1.7	1.0	-0.1
2011
	January	48 402	19 117	17 340	84 859	-0.3	-1.2	1.3	-0.2
	February	48 124	19 013	17 557	84 694	-0.6	-0.5	1.2	-0.2
	March	47 825	18 988	17 747	84 561	-0.6	-0.1	1.1	-0.2
	April	47 585	19 041	17 885	84 511	-0.5	0.3	0.8	-0.1
Seasonally Adjusted
2010
	February	49 363	18 550	17 457	85 369	0.6	-0.2	-7.3	-1.3
	March	49 850	18 681	17 042	85 572	1.0	0.7	-2.4	0.2
	April	53 759	20 750	17 540	92 049	7.8	11.1	2.9	7.6
	May	51 343	19 691	17 576	88 610	-4.5	-5.1	0.2	-3.7
	June	49 495	19 518	17 763	86 776	-3.6	-0.9	1.1	-2.1
	July	47 575	20 271	16 940	84 787	-3.9	3.9	-4.6	-2.3
	August	47 461	19 793	17 631	84 885	-0.2	-2.4	4.1	0.1
	September	48 314	20 821	16 802	85 937	1.8	5.2	-4.7	1.2
	October	47 618	20 588	16 699	84 905	-1.4	-1.1	-0.6	-1.2
	November	48 292	20 096	16 809	85 197	1.4	-2.4	0.7	0.3
	December	50 660	18 168	17 307	86 135	4.9	-9.6	3.0	1.1
2011
	January	48 358	18 628	16 967	83 953	-4.5	2.5	-2.0	-2.5
	February	46 969	19 408	17 703	84 080	-2.9	4.2	4.3	0.2
	March	47 657	21 285	18 421	87 364	1.5	9.7	4.1	3.9
	April	47 679	19 243	17 410	84 332	-	-9.6	-5.5	-3.5
Original
2010
	February	47 829	18 073	16 317	82 219	9.7	6.9	13.4	9.8
	March	53 717	21 643	19 384	94 744	12.3	19.8	18.8	15.2
	April	47 156	18 067	16 178	81 401	-12.2	-16.5	-16.5	-14.1
	May	50 450	20 065	18 703	89 218	7.0	11.1	15.6	9.6
	June	60 820	24 597	23 305	108 722	20.6	22.6	24.6	21.9
	July	47 591	19 032	15 753	82 376	-21.8	-22.6	-32.4	-24.2
	August	46 504	18 515	17 103	82 122	-2.3	-2.7	8.6	-0.3
	September	48 763	19 684	16 607	85 054	4.9	6.3	-2.9	3.6
	October	45 268	19 348	16 309	80 925	-7.2	-1.7	-1.8	-4.9
	November	49 405	20 806	17 131	87 342	9.1	7.5	5.0	7.9
	December	51 039	18 555	16 993	86 587	3.3	-10.8	-0.8	-0.9
2011
	January	43 539	17 032	13 013	73 584	-14.7	-8.2	-23.4	-15.0
	February	45 455	18 916	16 525	80 896	4.4	11.1	27.0	9.9
	March	50 228	23 066	20 690	93 984	10.5	21.9	25.2	16.2
	April	41 565	17 054	15 595	74 214	-17.2	-26.1	-24.6	-21.0
- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells)

New motor vehicle sales by state/territory of registration
		NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
		no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.
Trend
2010
	February	26 114	23 163	17 890	5 524	9 272	1 684	849	1 328	85 824
	March	26 236	23 507	17 772	5 567	9 405	1 685	853	1 349	86 375
	April	26 322	23 736	17 596	5 609	9 497	1 653	858	1 370	86 641
	May	26 364	23 790	17 407	5 633	9 561	1 607	865	1 389	86 616
	June	26 324	23 662	17 250	5 626	9 617	1 562	872	1 399	86 311
	July	26 258	23 413	17 168	5 590	9 668	1 539	870	1 397	85 903
	August	26 259	23 175	17 108	5 533	9 692	1 542	865	1 387	85 560
	September	26 344	23 030	17 012	5 475	9 653	1 562	858	1 372	85 305
	October	26 475	23 013	16 905	5 432	9 561	1 585	851	1 357	85 178
	November	26 586	23 059	16 848	5 398	9 454	1 593	845	1 345	85 128
	December	26 597	23 106	16 853	5 361	9 361	1 576	841	1 336	85 030
2011
	January	26 506	23 088	16 945	5 312	9 300	1 540	838	1 330	84 859
	February	26 367	23 011	17 143	5 253	9 263	1 498	834	1 326	84 694
	March	26 220	22 904	17 398	5 190	9 240	1 456	830	1 322	84 561
	April	26 087	22 768	17 689	5 143	9 251	1 424	829	1 319	84 511
Seasonally Adjusted
2010
	February	26 170	22 637	17 781	5 418	9 554	1 667	820	1 322	85 369
	March	25 780	24 143	17 105	5 473	9 160	1 732	833	1 346	85 572
	April	26 823	25 912	17 908	5 732	11 766	1 663	859	1 386	92 049
	May	26 481	23 992	17 806	5 617	10 812	1 603	887	1 411	88 610
	June	26 533	23 884	17 291	5 737	9 554	1 552	846	1 380	86 776
	July	25 798	23 148	16 660	5 521	9 865	1 495	907	1 393	84 787
	August	26 275	23 054	16 756	5 475	9 629	1 465	850	1 381	84 885
	September	26 319	22 771	17 479	5 603	9 842	1 646	874	1 403	85 937
	October	26 242	23 227	17 122	5 256	9 297	1 548	828	1 384	84 905
	November	26 321	22 856	17 176	5 427	9 675	1 624	847	1 272	85 197
	December	27 837	23 108	16 774	5 408	9 241	1 649	792	1 327	86 135
2011
	January	26 382	23 423	15 716	5 324	9 253	1 538	956	1 362	83 953
	February	25 548	23 189	17 312	5 326	9 170	1 440	757	1 337	84 080
	March	27 347	23 317	18 629	5 138	9 330	1 454	826	1 324	87 364
	April	25 958	22 489	17 992	5 047	9 299	1 406	839	1 301	84 332
Original
2010
	February	25 708	21 924	16 744	5 242	9 048	1 474	742	1 337	82 219
	March	29 083	26 380	19 480	5 950	9 636	1 711	1 038	1 466	94 744
	April	23 616	22 660	16 326	4 944	10 331	1 406	872	1 246	81 401
	May	26 531	23 994	18 370	5 798	10 604	1 527	997	1 397	89 218
	June	33 240	29 192	22 956	7 109	11 647	1 779	1 133	1 666	108 722
	July	25 050	22 499	16 516	5 208	9 572	1 292	881	1 358	82 376
	August	25 287	22 312	15 966	5 233	9 753	1 407	819	1 345	82 122
	September	26 079	22 511	16 939	5 548	10 121	1 715	785	1 356	85 054
	October	24 451	22 847	15 904	4 974	9 244	1 477	717	1 311	80 925
	November	27 422	23 491	17 025	5 651	9 738	1 902	809	1 304	87 342
	December	27 195	23 873	16 422	5 636	9 238	2 181	714	1 328	86 587
2011
	January	23 560	20 323	13 300	4 792	8 289	1 309	772	1 239	73 584
	February	25 048	22 446	16 283	5 128	8 686	1 273	680	1 352	80 896
	March	29 750	24 808	20 395	5 360	9 718	1 520	995	1 438	93 984
	April	22 570	19 535	16 403	4 467	8 101	1 124	862	1 152	74 214
(a) Seasonally adjusted numbers of new motor vehicle sales in Tasmania, Northern Territory and Australian Capital Territory should be used with caution. For more information, see paragraph 7 of the Explanatory Notes.