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AUGUST 2007 KEY POINTS

Trend

The August 2007 trend estimate for new motor vehicle sales (86 834) increased 0.1% when compared with the July 2007 estimate. The trend estimate has now been increasing for 15 consecutive months. When compared to August 2006, the trend estimate increased by 8.1%.

Sports utility vehicles increased 0.8% and other vehicles increased by 0.2% when comparing August 2007 to July 2007. Trend estimates for sports utility vehicles have shown increases for the last 14 months. Passenger vehicles, however, have been decreasing for five consecutive months and fell by 0.1% when comparing August 2007 to July 2007.

All vehicle types have recorded increases when compared to the same period 12 months ago. Sports utility vehicles, other vehicles and passenger vehicles rose 16.0%, 9.9% and 5.3%, respectively.

When comparing August 2007 to July 2007, Western Australia, Victoria and New South Wales showed increases in the trend estimate of total sales of new motor vehicles, rising 0.7%, 0.4% and 0.3%, respectively. The other states and territories showed decreases in the trend estimate of total sales of new motor vehicles. The greatest decreases were in Tasmania and Queensland, which fell by 0.8% and 0.7% respectively.


Seasonally adjusted

The August 2007 seasonally adjusted estimate for total sales of new motor vehicles (86 096) decreased by 1.9% compared with July 2007. The only vehicle type to increase was sports utility vehicles, increasing by 4.6%. Passenger vehicles and other vehicles decreased by 4.2% and 0.8% respectively.

When comparing August 2007 to July 2007, the Northern Territory and Victoria recorded increases of 3.9% and 0.7% respectively. Total sales decreased in the other states and territories, with Tasmania recording the largest decrease of 15.4%. Queensland and South Australia followed with decreases of 5.6% and 1.9% respectively.

	NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
Vehicle sales
Seasonally adjusted	26 445	22 276	18 359	5 049	10 299	1 463	830	1 375	86 096
Trend	26 647	22 142	18 956	5 058	10 270	1 566	816	1 379	86 834
Percentage change from previous month
Seasonally adjusted	-1.3	0.7	-5.6	-1.9	-0.3	-15.4	3.9	-0.9	-1.9
Trend	0.3	0.4	-0.7	-0.1	0.7	-0.8	-0.1	-0.4	0.1
Percentage change from previous year
Seasonally adjusted	9.8	9.7	5.8	1.7	7.6	2.2	3.4	14.4	8.0
Trend	9.7	9.4	7.0	0.9	8.0	-0.8	5.3	14.8	8.1

ISSUE	RELEASE DATE
September 2007	19 October 2007
October 2007	21 November 2007
November 2007	21 December 2007
December 2007	22 January 2008
January 2008	21 February 2008
February 2008	20 March 2008

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
2006	June	57 026	18 079	21 343	96 448	12.5	22.0	18.8	15.6
	July	48 798	13 279	15 485	77 562	-14.4	-26.6	-27.4	-19.6
	August	52 030	13 539	16 092	81 661	6.6	2.0	3.9	5.3
	September	51 388	13 208	15 397	79 993	-1.2	-2.4	-4.3	-2.0
	October	50 532	13 921	15 477	79 930	-1.7	5.4	0.5	-0.1
	November	51 850	15 193	16 254	83 297	2.6	9.1	5.0	4.2
	December	48 348	14 258	14 457	77 063	-6.8	-6.2	-11.1	-7.5
2007	January	49 189	14 303	13 444	76 936	1.7	0.3	-7.0	-0.2
	February	52 628	14 912	16 200	83 740	7.0	4.3	20.5	8.8
	March	57 757	17 589	19 046	94 392	9.7	18.0	17.6	12.7
	April	45 109	14 274	16 231	75 614	-21.9	-18.8	-14.8	-19.9
	May	52 727	16 912	18 958	88 597	16.9	18.5	16.8	17.2
	June	63 768	18 966	22 363	105 097	20.9	12.1	18.0	18.6
	July	53 589	15 396	17 306	86 291	-16.0	-18.8	-22.6	-17.9
	August	52 748	17 440	18 018	88 206	-1.6	13.3	4.1	2.2
Seasonally adjusted
2006	June	48183	14 427	15 725	78 335	-3.2	2.4	-4.2	-2.4
	July	50 536	14 224	16 012	80 772	4.9	-1.4	1.8	3.1
	August	50 786	12 941	15 983	79 710	0.5	-9.0	-0.2	-1.3
	September	51 075	14 485	15 994	81 554	0.6	11.9	0.1	2.3
	October	50 486	15 094	16 319	81 899	-1.2	4.2	2.0	0.4
	November	50 652	14 842	16 078	81 572	0.3	-1.7	-1.5	-0.4
	December	51 601	14 801	15 683	82 085	1.9	-0.3	-2.5	0.6
2007	January	54333	15 360	16 949	86 642	5.3	3.8	8.1	5.6
	February	53 673	15 474	17 250	86 397	-1.2	0.7	1.8	-0.3
	March	53 790	15 608	17 555	86 953	0.2	0.9	1.8	0.6
	April	51 998	16 402	17 432	85 832	-3.3	5.1	-0.7	-1.3
	May	52 495	15 695	17 351	85 541	1.0	-4.3	-0.5	-0.3
	June	54 134	15 948	17 227	87 309	3.1	1.6	-0.7	2.1
	July	53 970	16 061	17 732	87 763	-0.3	0.7	2.9	0.5
	August	51 720	16 794	17 582	86 096	-4.2	4.6	-0.8	-1.9
Trend
2006	June	49 599	13 941	16 044	79 584	0.6	-0.1	-0.5	0.2
	July	49 914	14 004	15 997	79 915	0.6	0.5	-0.3	0.4
	August	50 225	14 118	15 964	80 307	0.6	0.8	-0.2	0.5
	September	50 557	14 296	15 959	80 812	0.7	1.3	0.0	0.6
	October	51 027	14 523	16 019	81 569	0.9	1.6	0.4	0.9
	November	51 643	14 793	16 173	82 609	1.2	1.9	1.0	1.3
	December	52 255	15 079	16 421	83 755	1.2	1.9	1.5	1.4
2007	January	52 763	15 335	16 716	84 814	1.0	1.7	1.8	1.3
	February	53 169	15 524	17 016	85 709	0.8	1.2	1.8	1.1
	March	53 350	15 678	17 256	86 284	0.3	1.0	1.4	0.7
	April	53 315	15 842	17 404	86 561	-0.1	1.0	0.9	0.3
	May	53 184	15 986	17 468	86 638	-0.2	0.9	0.4	0.1
	June	53 080	16 118	17 501	86 699	-0.2	0.8	0.2	0.1
	July	52 967	16 251	17 524	86 742	-0.2	0.8	0.1	0.0
	August	52 900	16 383	17 551	86 834	-0.1	0.8	0.2	0.1

		NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
		(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)
Original
2006	June	28 560	23 015	23 091	6 164	11 170	1 936	1 058	1 454	96 448
	July	23 688	19 322	17 910	4 794	8 720	1 334	679	1 115	77 562
	August	24 223	21 043	18 124	5 107	9 736	1 436	768	1 224	81 661
	September	24 267	20 449	17 061	4 903	9 716	1 688	682	1 227	79 993
	October	24 379	20 785	16 625	4 781	9 591	1 797	762	1 210	79 930
	November	25 418	20 739	18 076	5 116	9 972	1 973	733	1 270	83 297
	December	22 927	19 790	16 551	4 700	9 471	1 748	688	1 188	77 063
2007	January	24 429	19 000	16 769	4 620	8 929	1 285	651	1 253	76 936
	February	25 636	21 510	18 221	5 138	9 625	1 463	771	1 376	83 740
	March	29 107	23 408	21 772	5 588	10 530	1 533	978	1 476	94 392
	April	23 245	18 833	16 907	4 616	8 701	1 214	883	1 215	75 614
	May	26 649	22 151	20 428	5 237	10 172	1 587	973	1 400	88 597
	June	31 965	25 491	24 997	6 152	11 995	1 750	1 107	1 640	105 097
	July	26 851	21 655	19 600	4 871	9 645	1 561	739	1 369	86 291
	August	26 549	22 958	19 145	5 128	10 730	1 481	791	1 424	88 206
Seasonally adjusted
2006	June	23 893	19 330	17 380	5 030	9 086	1 636	755	1 225	78 335
	July	24 088	20 491	18 214	5 114	9 443	1 509	750	1 163	80 772
	August	24 093	20 298	17 346	4 967	9 569	1 432	803	1 202	79 710
	September	24 720	20 748	17 675	5 029	9 657	1 717	765	1 243	81 554
	October	25 207	20 539	17 951	4 890	9 633	1 637	838	1 204	81 899
	November	24 917	19 986	18 401	4 976	9 600	1 652	765	1 275	81 572
	December	25 000	20 344	18 645	4 821	9 802	1 416	801	1 256	82 085
2007	January	26 734	21 767	19 058	5 397	9 945	1 568	838	1 335	86 642
	February	25 942	22 190	19 097	5 201	10 029	1 713	827	1 398	86 397
	March	26 585	21 948	19 567	5 251	9 785	1 598	829	1 390	86 953
	April	26 411	21 237	19 204	5 213	9 971	1 543	841	1 412	85 832
	May	25 947	21 621	19 329	4 971	9 946	1 531	816	1 380	85 541
	June	26 849	22 216	19 287	5 075	10 094	1 588	821	1 379	87 309
	July	26 801	22 121	19 442	5 149	10 334	1 730	799	1 387	87 763
	August	26 445	22 276	18 359	5 049	10 299	1 463	830	1 375	86 096
Trend
2006	June	24 042	20 086	17 576	5 121	9 249	1 567	755	1 188	79 584
	July	24 107	20 173	17 633	5 078	9 395	1 574	763	1 192	79 915
	August	24 286	20 232	17 713	5 015	9 506	1 579	775	1 201	80 307
	September	24 542	20 297	17 834	4 964	9 592	1 584	786	1 213	80 812
	October	24 860	20 434	18 039	4 952	9 668	1 587	795	1 234	81 569
	November	25 231	20 668	18 324	4 993	9 738	1 591	803	1 261	82 609
	December	25 594	20 947	18 648	5 064	9 801	1 594	812	1 295	83 755
2007	January	25 902	21 248	18 943	5 134	9 848	1 587	820	1 332	84 814
	February	26 149	21 530	19 185	5 183	9 889	1 582	827	1 364	85 709
	March	26 320	21 728	19 316	5 194	9 927	1 585	829	1 385	86 284
	April	26 425	21 832	19 348	5 169	9 974	1 591	829	1 393	86 561
	May	26 481	21 880	19 305	5 128	10 035	1 592	824	1 393	86 638
	June	26 531	21 952	19 214	5 094	10 112	1 586	820	1 390	86 699
	July	26 570	22 043	19 092	5 064	10 194	1 578	817	1 384	86 742
	August	26 647	22 142	18 956	5 058	10 270	1 566	816	1 379	86 834
(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.