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AUGUST KEY FIGURES

	NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aus
Vehicle sales (no.)
Trend	25 008	22 381	17 366	5 402	9 816	1 678	899	1 248	83 798
Seasonally Adjusted	24 288	21 436	16 698	5 323	9 848	1 773	916	1 198	81 480
Change from previous month (%)
Trend	-1.4	-1.4	-2.4	-0.1	-0.5	0.8	-0.7	-1.8	-1.4
Seasonally Adjusted	-3.2	-4.9	-5.5	-1.3	-0.3	6.7	-0.8	-8.3	-3.5
Change from previous year (%)
Trend	-7.1	-0.1	-10.9	5.2	-4.2	3.6	9.5	-10.8	-4.8
Seasonally Adjusted	-10.2	-5.4	-11.9	4.3	-4.7	20.9	12.0	-15.3	-7.2
(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 August 2008 trend estimate for new motor vehicle sales (83 798) decreased 1.4% when compared with July 2008. The trend estimate has decreased for the seventh consecutive month. When compared with August 2007 the trend estimate decreased by 4.8%.
• Seasonally adjusted - The August 2008 estimate for total sales of new motor vehicles (81 480) decreased by 3.5% compared with July 2008.

• Trend - When comparing August 2008 with July 2008, trend estimates decreased for sports utility vehicles, 2.4%, other vehicles, 1.2%, and passenger vehicles, 1.1%. When compared with the same period period 12 months ago, sports utility vehicles, passenger vehicles and other vehicles have decreased by 7.7%, 5.5%, and 0.1% respectively.
• Seasonally adjusted - When comparing August 2008 with July 2008, passenger vehicles and sports utility vehicles decreased by 4.9% and 1.1% respectively, while other vehicles decreased by 2.0%.

• Trend - When comparing August 2008 to July 2008, all of the states and territories showed decreases in the trend estimate of total sales of new motor vehicles with the exception of Tasmania. The largest decreaes were in Queensland, 2.4% and the Australian Capital Territory, 1.8%.
• Seasonally adjusted - When comparing August 2008 to July 2008, all of the states and territories showed decreases except for Tasmania which increased by 6.7%. The largest decreases were in the Australian Capital Territory, 8.3%, Queensland, 5.5%, and Victoria, 4.9%.

New Motor Vehicle Sales, Total vehicles - Long term

New Motor Vehicle Sales, Total vehicles - Short term

New motor vehicle sales by type of vehicle
		Count Passenger vehicles	Count Sports utility vehicles	Count Other vehicles	Count Total vehicles	Change Passenger vehicles	Change Sports utility vehicles	Change Other vehicles	Change Total vehicles
		no.	no.	no.	no.	%	%	%	%
Trend
2007
	June	53 006	16 376	17 609	86 991	-0.4	2.1	0.8	0.3
	July	52 832	16 740	17 834	87 406	-0.3	2.2	1.3	0.5
	August	52 778	17 110	18 146	88 034	-0.1	2.2	1.7	0.7
	September	52 836	17 450	18 479	88 765	0.1	2.0	1.8	0.8
	October	52 980	17 723	18 752	89 455	0.3	1.6	1.5	0.8
	November	53 142	17 901	18 965	90 008	0.3	1.0	1.1	0.6
	December	53 244	17 961	19 133	90 338	0.2	0.3	0.9	0.4
2008
	January	53 205	17 967	19 239	90 411	-0.1	-	0.6	0.1
	February	53 001	17 934	19 274	90 209	-0.4	-0.2	0.2	-0.2
	March	52 605	17 794	19 215	89 614	-0.7	-0.8	-0.3	-0.7
	April	52 110	17 507	19 071	88 688	-0.9	-1.6	-0.7	-1.0
	May	51 590	17 105	18 861	87 556	-1.0	-2.3	-1.1	-1.3
	June	51 032	16 652	18 605	86 289	-1.1	-2.6	-1.4	-1.4
	July	50 422	16 196	18 350	84 968	-1.2	-2.7	-1.4	-1.5
	August	49 870	15 800	18 128	83 798	-1.1	-2.4	-1.2	-1.4
Seasonally Adjusted
2007
	June	53 926	15 837	17 500	87 263	3.4	-0.7	0.5	2.0
	July	54 076	16 505	17 886	88 467	0.3	4.2	2.2	1.4
	August	52 322	17 567	17 909	87 798	-3.2	6.4	0.1	-0.8
	September	52 008	17 530	18 522	88 060	-0.6	-0.2	3.4	0.3
	October	52 220	18 029	18 723	88 972	0.4	2.8	1.1	1.0
	November	53 179	17 584	19 543	90 306	1.8	-2.5	4.4	1.5
	December	54 385	17 600	18 885	90 870	2.3	0.1	-3.4	0.6
2008
	January	54 115	18 323	19 106	91 544	-0.5	4.1	1.2	0.7
	February	52 160	17 992	18 882	89 034	-3.6	-1.8	-1.2	-2.7
	March	52 180	17 684	19 343	89 207	-	-1.7	2.4	0.2
	April	51 475	17 722	20 017	89 214	-1.4	0.2	3.5	-
	May	52 126	16 809	18 507	87 442	1.3	-5.2	-7.5	-2.0
	June	52 253	17 530	18 239	88 022	0.2	4.3	-1.4	0.7
	July	50 531	15 560	18 382	84 473	-3.3	-11.2	0.8	-4.0
	August	48 066	15 396	18 018	81 480	-4.9	-1.1	-2.0	-3.5
Original
2007
	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
	September	50 197	15 874	17 418	83 489	-4.8	-9.0	-3.3	-5.3
	October	53 336	17 748	18 205	89 289	6.3	11.8	4.5	6.9
	November	54 195	17 702	20 184	92 081	1.6	-0.3	10.9	3.1
	December	51 722	17 114	17 414	86 250	-4.6	-3.3	-13.7	-6.3
2008
	January	49 295	17 646	15 329	82 270	-4.7	3.1	-12.0	-4.6
	February	53 030	18 277	18 591	89 898	7.6	3.6	21.3	9.3
	March	53 122	18 425	19 738	91 285	0.2	0.8	6.2	1.5
	April	47 639	16 654	19 768	84 061	-10.3	-9.6	0.2	-7.9
	May	51 416	17 279	19 945	88 640	7.9	3.8	0.9	5.4
	June	61 524	21 388	23 629	106 541	19.7	23.8	18.5	20.2
	July	51 068	14 842	18 066	83 976	-17.0	-30.6	-23.5	-21.2
	August	46 114	14 233	16 977	77 324	-9.7	-4.1	-6.0	-7.9
- 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)	Aus
		no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.
Trend
2007
	June	26 649	21 982	19 306	5 095	10 131	1 608	821	1 399	86 991
	July	26 771	22 175	19 339	5 098	10 197	1 608	820	1 398	87 406
	August	26 925	22 401	19 486	5 134	10 249	1 619	821	1 399	88 034
	September	27 097	22 616	19 713	5 203	10 273	1 636	824	1 403	88 765
	October	27 282	22 801	19 920	5 293	10 270	1 650	832	1 407	89 455
	November	27 415	22 957	20 060	5 382	10 266	1 667	850	1 411	90 008
	December	27 439	23 100	20 090	5 453	10 281	1 690	873	1 412	90 338
2008
	January	27 361	23 253	19 978	5 503	10 303	1 707	898	1 408	90 411
	February	27 189	23 411	19 757	5 525	10 305	1 707	917	1 398	90 209
	March	26 908	23 492	19 440	5 517	10 260	1 690	926	1 381	89 614
	April	26 556	23 436	19 073	5 494	10 171	1 676	925	1 357	88 688
	May	26 177	23 260	18 679	5 464	10 064	1 666	919	1 327	87 556
	June	25 775	23 003	18 242	5 437	9 961	1 663	910	1 298	86 289
	July	25 362	22 693	17 797	5 405	9 870	1 665	905	1 271	84 968
	August	25 008	22 381	17 366	5 402	9 816	1 678	899	1 248	83 798
Seasonally Adjusted
2007
	June	26 711	22 052	19 396	5 119	10 137	1 619	836	1 393	87 263
	July	27 116	22 305	19 601	5 169	10 318	1 781	796	1 381	88 467
	August	27 054	22 660	18 945	5 102	10 338	1 467	818	1 414	87 798
	September	26 515	22 752	19 484	5 138	10 322	1 619	822	1 408	88 060
	October	27 287	22 575	19 730	5 340	10 159	1 623	854	1 404	88 972
	November	27 620	22 650	20 467	5 381	10 177	1 785	842	1 384	90 306
	December	27 381	23 115	21 014	5 245	10 200	1 626	855	1 434	90 870
2008
	January	27 831	23 643	19 539	5 914	10 579	1 731	881	1 426	91 544
	February	27 007	23 416	19 187	5 435	10 076	1 666	896	1 351	89 034
	March	26 948	23 312	19 075	5 391	10 326	1 690	1 026	1 439	89 207
	April	25 983	23 119	20 148	5 450	10 433	1 811	924	1 346	89 214
	May	26 340	23 576	18 244	5 557	9 950	1 583	889	1 303	87 442
	June	26 631	23 786	18 588	5 484	9 793	1 571	867	1 302	88 022
	July	25 101	22 530	17 679	5 391	9 880	1 662	923	1 307	84 473
	August	24 288	21 436	16 698	5 323	9 848	1 773	916	1 198	81 480
Original
2007
	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
	September	24 946	21 788	18 025	4 738	10 244	1 684	724	1 340	83 489
	October	27 556	23 097	18 933	5 329	10 460	1 708	781	1 425	89 289
	November	27 835	23 644	20 189	5 556	10 435	2 225	803	1 394	92 081
	December	25 290	22 432	19 557	5 078	9 809	2 010	719	1 355	86 250
2008
	January	25 810	21 044	16 972	5 256	9 650	1 490	722	1 326	82 270
	February	27 855	23 803	18 914	5 607	9 952	1 484	876	1 407	89 898
	March	28 128	23 153	20 231	5 334	10 483	1 470	1 108	1 378	91 285
	April	24 489	21 814	19 109	5 293	9 475	1 496	1 049	1 336	84 061
	May	26 334	23 865	18 672	5 803	10 067	1 585	1 025	1 289	88 640
	June	32 027	27 638	24 335	6 568	11 564	1 778	1 128	1 503	106 541
	July	25 216	22 272	17 963	5 237	9 580	1 510	900	1 298	83 976
	August	22 669	20 575	15 679	5 034	9 652	1 680	855	1 180	77 324
(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.