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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.

DECEMBER 2006 KEY POINTS

Trend

The December 2006 trend estimate (81 369) increased 0.3% compared with the November 2006 estimate. This was the seventh consecutive positive trend estimate. Since December 2005, the trend estimate has increased 0.2%.

Passenger vehicle sales recorded an increase of 0.1% in December. The largest increase in December was recorded by sports utility vehicles at 1.1%. The other vehicle types decreased (0.1%) this month, the twelfth consecutive month of negative trend estimates for this category.

Western Australia (0.6%) and Queensland (0.8%) recorded the largest trend estimate increases whilst Tasmania (0.9%), South Australia (0.6%) and Victoria (0.2%) all recorded decreases over this time.

Seasonally adjusted

The December 2006 seasonally adjusted estimate for total sales of new motor vehicles (81 361) increased 0.8% compared with November 2006 estimates.

Tasmania, South Australia and the ACT recorded decreases in monthly seasonally adjusted estimates. Increases were recorded in the Northern Territory (5.6%), Western Australia (2.8%), Victoria (1.8%), New South Wales (1.0%) and Queensland (0.2%).

Over this period only passenger vehicles recorded an increase (1.8%), with sports utility vehicles (0.5%) and other vehicles (1.4%) decreasing.

	NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
Vehicle sales
Seasonally adjusted	24 801	20 130	18 331	4 779	9 859	1 435	794	1 232	81 361
Trend	24 847	20 172	18 156	4 838	9 771	1 557	791	1 237	81 369
Percentage change from previous month
Seasonally adjusted	1.0	1.8	0.2	-2.7	2.8	-11.9	5.6	-1.4	0.8
Trend	0.4	-0.2	0.8	-0.6	0.6	-0.9	0.1	0.3	0.3
Percentage change from previous year
Seasonally adjusted	0.3	-7.4	5.1	-9.4	13.0	-10.6	4.3	5.8	-0.1
Trend	-0.1	-5.1	3.5	-8.0	12.0	-1.3	3.1	2.1	0.2

ISSUE	RELEASE DATE
January 2006 February 2007	21 February 2007 21 March 2007
March 2007	20 April 2007
April 2007	22 May 2007
May 2007 June 2007	20 June 2007 20 July 2007

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	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
	May	50 683	14 816	17 958	83 457	19.8	24.5	24.3	21.6
	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 November	50 532 51 850	13 921 15 193	15 477 16 254	79 930 83 297	-1.7 2.6	5.4 9.1	0.5 5.0	-0.1 4.2
	December	48 348	14 258	14 457	77 063	-6.8	-6.2	-11.1	-7.5
Seasonally adjusted
2005	October	49 185	13 893	16 062	79 140	-4.1	-7.8	-6.7	-5.3
	November	50 203	14 220	16 555	80 978	2.1	2.4	3.1	2.3
	December	49 575	14 889	16 964	81 428	-1.3	4.7	2.5	0.6
2006	January	51 173	14 564	16 965	82 702	3.2	-2.2	0.0	1.6
	February	49 938	14 091	16 643	80 672	-2.4	-3.2	-1.9	-2.5
	March	48 618	13 956	16 586	79 160	-2.6	-1.0	-0.3	-1.9
	April	49 362	13 917	16 364	79 643	1.5	-0.3	-1.3	0.6
	May	49 572	13 975	16 332	79 879	0.4	0.4	-0.2	0.3
	June	48 848	14 310	15 591	78 749	-1.5	2.4	-4.5	-1.4
	July	50 738	14 179	16 110	81 027	3.9	-0.9	3.3	2.9
	August	50 228	13 083	15 897	79 208	-1.0	-7.7	-1.3	-2.2
	September	50 858	14 537	15 923	81 318	1.3	11.1	0.2	2.7
	October	50 148	15 023	16 164	81 335	-1.4	3.3	1.5	0.0
	November	50 050	14 837	15 863	80 750	-0.2	-1.2	-1.9	-0.7
	December	50 958	14 769	15 634	81 361	1.8	-0.5	-1.4	0.8
Trend
2005	October	50 331	14 701	16 749	81 781	-0.9	-0.5	-0.7	-0.8
	November	50 159	14 592	16 737	81 488	-0.3	-0.7	-0.1	-0.4
	December	50 031	14 446	16 743	81 220	-0.3	-1.0	0.0	-0.3
2006	January	49 879	14 301	16 735	80 915	-0.3	-1.0	-0.0	-0.4
	February	49 689	14 211	16 683	80 583	-0.4	-0.6	-0.3	-0.4
	March	49 502	14 136	16 564	80 202	-0.4	-0.5	-0.7	-0.5
	April	49 390	14 035	16 371	79 796	-0.2	-0.7	-1.2	-0.5
	May	49 432	13 937	16 170	79 539	0.1	-0.7	-1.2	-0.3
	June	49 651	13 923	16 034	79 608	0.4	-0.1	-0.8	0.1
	July	49 953	14 004	15 970	79 927	0.6	0.6	-0.4	0.4
	August	50 223	14 145	15 949	80 317	0.5	1.0	-0.1	0.5
	September	50 377	14 331	15 939	80 647	0.3	1.3	-0.1	0.4
	October	50 475	14 534	15 917	80 926	0.2	1.4	-0.1	0.3
	November	50 551	14 728	15 879	81 158	0.2	1.3	-0.2	0.3
	December	50 626	14 884	15 859	81 369	0.1	1.1	-0.1	0.3

		NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
		(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)
Original
2005	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
	May	25 124	20 776	18 774	5 601	9 472	1 623	863	1 224	83 457
	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 November	24 379 25 418	20 785 20 739	16 625 18 076	4 781 5 116	9 591 9 972	1 797 1 973	762 733	1 210 1 270	79 930 83 297
	December	22 927	19 790	16 551	4 700	9 471	1 748	688	1 188	77 063
Seasonally adjusted
2005	October	23 838	20 638	17 489	5 195	8 500	1 567	729	1 184	79 140
	November	24 601	21 471	17 340	5 299	8 883	1 463	722	1 199	80 978
	December	24 721	21 736	17 445	5 274	8 721	1 605	761	1 165	81 428
2006	January	25 610	21 231	18 021	5 339	8 814	1 601	812	1 274	82 702
	February	25 083	20 924	17 245	5 256	8 538	1 623	790	1 213	80 672
	March	24 488	19 950	17 580	4 839	8 731	1 592	775	1 205	79 160
	April	24 140	20 488	17 391	5 311	8 874	1 497	746	1 196	79 643
	May	23 941	20 178	17 797	5 252	9 239	1 582	742	1 148	79 879
	June	23 978	19 418	17 515	5 043	9 084	1 718	762	1 231	78 749
	July	24 257	20 437	18 277	5 126	9 504	1 513	743	1 170	81 027
	August	23 892	20 202	17 302	4 924	9 490	1 408	793	1 197	79 208
	September	24 728	20 740	17 508	5 016	9 653	1 668	764	1 241	81 318
	October	24 988	20 323	17 797	4 890	9 635	1 665	831	1 206	81 335
	November	24 555	19 770	18 297	4 912	9 586	1 628	752	1 250	80 750
	December	24 801	20 130	18 331	4 779	9 859	1 435	794	1 232	81 361
Trend
2005	October	24 962	21 386	17 794	5 269	8 729	1 625	777	1 239	81 781
	November	24 897	21 341	17 644	5 272	8 746	1 598	768	1 222	81 488
	December	24 877	21 257	17 542	5 260	8 727	1 578	767	1 212	81 220
2006	January	24 850	21 083	17 492	5 233	8 708	1 571	771	1 207	80 915
	February	24 780	20 819	17 494	5 206	8 727	1 577	773	1 207	80 583
	March	24 611	20 507	17 547	5 181	8 794	1 587	771	1 204	80 202
	April	24 352	20 224	17 603	5 159	8 911	1 585	763	1 199	79 796
	May	24 115	20 072	17 629	5 135	9 066	1 574	757	1 191	79 539
	June	24 032	20 075	17 643	5 108	9 236	1 569	756	1 189	79 608
	July	24 115	20 159	17 668	5 072	9 384	1 573	762	1 194	79 927
	August	24 297	20 240	17 708	5 021	9 494	1 579	773	1 205	80 317
	September	24 481	20 269	17 777	4 962	9 579	1 582	781	1 216	80 647
	October	24 635	20 253	17 886	4 911	9 651	1 580	786	1 224	80 926
	November	24 759	20 211	18 014	4 868	9 712	1 571	790	1 233	81 158
	December	24 847	20 172	18 156	4 838	9 771	1 557	791	1 237	81 369
(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.