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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.

FEBRUARY 2007 KEY POINTS

Trend

The February 2007 trend estimate for new motor vehicle sales (85 677) increased 1.3% when compared with the January 2007 estimate. This was the ninth consecutive positive trend estimate. From February 2006, the trend estimate increased by 6.7%.

All of the vehicle types recorded increases for at least six consecutive months of trend estimates. Passenger vehicles and other vehicle types both increased 1.3% from January 2007 to February 2007 and sports utility vehicles increased by 1.2%.

Increases have also been recorded in all vehicle types when compared with February 2006. Sports utility vehicles showed the largest increase (8.9%), followed by passenger vehicles (7.9%) and other vehicles (1.1%).

In February 2007, all states and territories recorded increases in the trend estimate of total sales of new motor vehicles from the previous month. The Australian Capital Territory (2.0%) and Victoria (1.7%) recorded the largest increases.

When compared with February 2006, all States and Territories also recorded increases in trend estimates. The largest increases were recorded in Western Australia (14.8%), Australian Capital Territory (12.2%) and Queensland (9.0%).

Seasonally adjusted

The February 2007 seasonally adjusted estimate for total sales of new motor vehicles (86 486) was the same as the January 2007 estimate.

Over the same period, other vehicles (1.7%) and sports utility vehicles (0.6%) recorded increases, while passenger vehicles recorded a decrease (0.7%).

All states and territories except New South Wales, South Australia and Northern Territory recorded an increase in seasonally adjusted estimates compared with the previous month, with Tasmania recording the largest increase (7.9%), followed by Australian Capital Territory (4.7%). New South Wales and South Australia recorded the largest decreases (2.7% and 2.6%, respectively).

	NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
Vehicle sales
Seasonally adjusted	25 932	22 273	19 036	5 235	10 114	1 679	827	1 390	86 486
Trend	26 070	21 592	19 049	5 189	10 019	1 590	823	1 345	85 677
Percentage change from previous month
Seasonally adjusted	-2.7	2.4	0.1	-2.6	1.3	7.9	-1.2	4.7	0.0
Trend	1.1	1.7	1.5	1.4	0.9	0.3	0.9	2.0	1.3
Percentage change from previous year
Seasonally adjusted	3.9	7.4	10.7	0.9	18.1	6.3	5.1	17.2	7.9
Trend	5.6	4.1	9.0	0.1	14.8	1.7	6.9	12.2	6.7

ISSUE	RELEASE DATE
March 2007	20 April 2007
April 2007	22 May 2007
May 2007 June 2007 July 2007	20 June 2007 20 July 2007 22 August 2007
August 2007	21 September 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	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	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
Seasonally adjusted
2005	December	49 915	14 990	16 995	81 900	-0.9	5.3	1.8	0.7
2006	January	50 555	14 484	16 784	81 823	1.3	-3.4	-1.2	-0.1
	February	49 706	14 006	16 474	80 186	-1.7	-3.3	-1.8	-2.0
	March	48 565	13 937	16 591	79 093	-2.3	-0.5	0.7	-1.4
	April	49 363	13 904	16 326	79 593	1.6	-0.2	-1.6	0.6
	May	49 465	13 946	16 281	79 692	0.2	0.3	-0.3	0.1
	June	48 855	14 343	15 583	78 781	-1.2	2.8	-4.3	-1.1
	July	50 693	14 187	16 131	81 011	3.8	-1.1	3.5	2.8
	August	50 303	13 097	15 905	79 305	-0.8	-7.7	-1.4	-2.1
	September	51 071	14 574	15 997	81 642	1.5	11.3	0.6	2.9
	October	50 364	15 054	16 293	81 711	-1.4	3.3	1.9	0.1
	November	50 209	14 858	16 015	81 082	-0.3	-1.3	-1.7	-0.8
	December	51 580	14 875	15 737	82 192	2.7	0.1	-1.7	1.4
2007	January	54 248	15 315	16 923	86 486	5.2	3.0	7.5	5.2
	February	53 863	15 413	17 210	86 486	-0.7	0.6	1.7	0.0
Trend
2005	December	50 013	14 450	16 737	81 200	-0.4	-1.1	-0.2	-0.5
2006	January	49 779	14 285	16 689	80 753	-0.5	-1.1	-0.3	-0.6
	February	49 538	14 181	16 608	80 327	-0.5	-0.7	-0.5	-0.5
	March	49 342	14 100	16 482	79 924	-0.4	-0.6	-0.8	-0.5
	April	49 259	14 006	16 306	79 571	-0.2	-0.7	-1.1	-0.4
	May	49 361	13 921	16 131	79 413	0.2	-0.6	-1.1	-0.2
	June	49 637	13 924	16 024	79 585	0.6	0.0	-0.7	0.2
	July	49 918	14 005	15 964	79 887	0.6	0.6	-0.4	0.4
	August	50 166	14 143	15 930	80 239	0.5	1.0	-0.2	0.4
	September	50 435	14 344	15 955	80 734	0.5	1.4	0.2	0.6
	October	50 824	14 590	16 046	81 460	0.8	1.7	0.6	0.9
	November	51 371	14 845	16 186	82 402	1.1	1.7	0.9	1.2
	December	52 042	15 073	16 365	83 480	1.3	1.5	1.1	1.3
2007	January	52 747	15 263	16 566	84 576	1.4	1.3	1.2	1.3
	February	53 452	15 439	16 786	85 677	1.3	1.2	1.3	1.3

		NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
		(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)
Original
2005	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	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
Seasonally adjusted
2005	December	24 868	21 973	17 495	5 301	8 714	1 592	771	1 186	81 900
2006	January	25 204	20 972	17 920	5 280	8 799	1 594	799	1 255	81 823
	February	24 949	20 734	17 196	5 188	8 566	1 580	787	1 186	80 186
	March	24 465	19 900	17 577	4 856	8 729	1 589	773	1 204	79 093
	April	24 123	20 480	17 383	5 310	8 859	1 494	750	1 194	79 593
	May	23 898	20 068	17 776	5 242	9 229	1 594	738	1 147	79 692
	June	23 996	19 444	17 519	5 040	9 071	1 717	761	1 233	78 781
	July	24 262	20 427	18 261	5 131	9 494	1 523	745	1 168	81 011
	August	23 928	20 271	17 273	4 925	9 492	1 422	798	1 196	79 305
	September	24 833	20 827	17 553	5 050	9 681	1 682	768	1 248	81 642
	October	25 105	20 491	17 846	4 911	9 642	1 668	833	1 215	81 711
	November	24 732	19 826	18 323	4 927	9 596	1 655	761	1 262	81 082
	December	25 092	20 423	18 507	4 854	9 852	1 406	799	1 259	82 192
2007	January	26 639	21 756	19 015	5 372	9 984	1 556	837	1 327	86 486
	February	25 932	22 273	19 036	5 235	10 114	1 679	827	1 390	86 486
Trend
2005	December	24 854	21 266	17 544	5 255	8 732	1 571	766	1 212	81 200
2006	January	24 778	21 038	17 477	5 219	8 711	1 558	770	1 202	80 753
	February	24 679	20 734	17 470	5 185	8 727	1 563	770	1 199	80 327
	March	24 511	20 407	17 518	5 160	8 791	1 574	768	1 195	79 924
	April	24 279	20 136	17 577	5 142	8 904	1 580	762	1 191	79 571
	May	24 083	20 019	17 611	5 128	9 056	1 575	755	1 186	79 413
	June	24 034	20 063	17 630	5 109	9 229	1 576	756	1 188	79 585
	July	24 104	20 152	17 645	5 067	9 379	1 584	762	1 194	79 887
	August	24 279	20 212	17 678	5 009	9 496	1 590	772	1 203	80 239
	September	24 536	20 288	17 773	4 965	9 583	1 589	783	1 217	80 734
	October	24 840	20 420	17 961	4 960	9 663	1 586	793	1 237	81 460
	November	25 166	20 627	18 222	4 995	9 749	1 583	800	1 260	82 402
	December	25 491	20 908	18 510	5 050	9 841	1 583	808	1 289	83 480
2007	January	25 797	21 237	18 776	5 115	9 931	1 585	816	1 319	84 576
	February	26 070	21 592	19 049	5 189	10 019	1 590	823	1 345	85 677
(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.