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FEBRUARY KEY FIGURES

	NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aus
Vehicle sales (no.)
Trend	27 721	23 517	20 114	5 633	10 306	1 715	889	1 405	91 300
Seasonally Adjusted	27 250	23 508	19 323	5 454	10 150	1 682	890	1 366	89 623
Change from previous month (%)
Trend	0.3	0.8	-0.2	1.3	0.1	1.0	1.3	-0.4	0.4
Seasonally Adjusted	-2.2	-0.5	-1.6	-8.1	-4.0	-3.1	-1.2	-4.7	-2.3
Change from previous year (%)
Trend	6.4	9.3	4.7	9.4	3.6	7.6	7.8	3.2	6.6
Seasonally Adjusted	4.4	6.1	-	5.2	-0.3	-3.5	8.5	-3.1	3.1
- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells)
(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 February 2008 estimate for new motor vehicle sales (91 300) increased 0.4% when compared with January 2008. The trend estimate has been increasing for over 15 consecutive months. When compared to February 2007, the trend estimate increased by 6.6%.
• Seasonally adjusted - The February 2008 estimate for total sales of new motor vehicles (89 623) decreased by 2.3% compared with January 2008.

• Trend - All vehicle types recorded increases in trend estimates when comparing February 2008 to January 2008. Passenger vehicles and sports utility vehicles increased by 0.4% while other vehicles increased by 0.3%. When compared to the same period 12 months ago, sports utility vehicles, other vehicles and passenger vehicles rose 17.7%, 13.1% and 1.2% respectively.
• Seasonally adjusted - When comparing February 2008 to January 2008, sports utility vehicles increased by 0.1% while passenger vehicles and other vehicles decreased by 3.5% and 1.1 respectively.

• Trend - When comparing February 2008 to January 2008, six states and territories showed increases in the trend estimate of total sales of new motor vehicles. The largest increases were in South Australia and the Northern Territory, both rising 1.3%, followed by Tasmania (1.0%). The Australian Capital Territory and Queensland decreased by 0.4% and 0.2% respectively.
• Seasonally adjusted - When comparing February 2008 to January 2008, all states and territories showed decreases in total sales. The largest decrease was in South Australia (8.1%), followed by the Australian Capital Territory (4.7%) and Western Australia (4.0%). Victoria showed the smallest decrease (0.5%).

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
2006
	December	52 176	15 022	16 397	83 595	1.1	2.2	1.7	1.4
2007
	January	52 675	15 319	16 714	84 708	1.0	2.0	1.9	1.3
	February	53 101	15 533	17 033	85 667	0.8	1.4	1.9	1.1
	March	53 370	15 689	17 272	86 331	0.5	1.0	1.4	0.8
	April	53 429	15 830	17 409	86 668	0.1	0.9	0.8	0.4
	May	53 278	15 994	17 467	86 739	-0.3	1.0	0.3	0.1
	June	52 983	16 229	17 536	86 748	-0.6	1.5	0.4	-
	July	52 704	16 543	17 710	86 957	-0.5	1.9	1.0	0.2
	August	52 583	16 916	18 010	87 509	-0.2	2.3	1.7	0.6
	September	52 614	17 300	18 368	88 282	0.1	2.3	2.0	0.9
	October	52 766	17 638	18 697	89 101	0.3	2.0	1.8	0.9
	November	53 033	17 884	18 942	89 859	0.5	1.4	1.3	0.9
	December	53 334	18 065	19 106	90 505	0.6	1.0	0.9	0.7
2008
	January	53 550	18 213	19 207	90 970	0.4	0.8	0.5	0.5
	February	53 746	18 289	19 265	91 300	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.4
Seasonally Adjusted
2006
	December	51 224	14 955	15 965	82 144	1.2	0.4	1.1	1.0
2007
	January	53 734	15 247	16 865	85 846	4.9	2.0	5.6	4.5
	February	54 213	15 443	17 277	86 933	0.9	1.3	2.4	1.3
	March	53 795	15 636	17 591	87 022	-0.8	1.2	1.8	0.1
	April	51 975	16 493	17 414	85 882	-3.4	5.5	-1.0	-1.3
	May	52 381	15 709	17 329	85 419	0.8	-4.8	-0.5	-0.5
	June	54 260	16 019	17 365	87 644	3.6	2.0	0.2	2.6
	July	54 003	16 096	17 812	87 911	-0.5	0.5	2.6	0.3
	August	51 664	17 101	17 601	86 366	-4.3	6.2	-1.2	-1.8
	September	51 752	17 452	18 488	87 692	0.2	2.1	5.0	1.5
	October	52 076	18 149	18 750	88 975	0.6	4.0	1.4	1.5
	November	53 178	17 646	19 448	90 272	2.1	-2.8	3.7	1.5
	December	54 726	17 827	18 952	91 505	2.9	1.0	-2.6	1.4
2008
	January	54 186	18 324	19 199	91 709	-1.0	2.8	1.3	0.2
	February	52 289	18 344	18 990	89 623	-3.5	0.1	-1.1	-2.3
Original
2006
	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
	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
- 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
2006
	December	25 479	20 943	18 586	5 048	9 846	1 584	812	1 297	83 595
2007
	January	25 789	21 236	18 927	5 104	9 909	1 592	819	1 332	84 708
	February	26 064	21 513	19 217	5 147	9 946	1 594	825	1 361	85 667
	March	26 300	21 709	19 384	5 163	9 967	1 598	828	1 382	86 331
	April	26 461	21 828	19 422	5 147	9 991	1 600	827	1 392	86 668
	May	26 529	21 902	19 345	5 109	10 036	1 600	824	1 394	86 739
	June	26 558	21 986	19 214	5 081	10 101	1 598	819	1 391	86 748
	July	26 613	22 123	19 168	5 074	10 170	1 603	817	1 389	86 957
	August	26 747	22 308	19 289	5 106	10 229	1 621	818	1 391	87 509
	September	26 936	22 505	19 532	5 178	10 266	1 640	825	1 400	88 282
	October	27 148	22 692	19 808	5 274	10 279	1 657	836	1 407	89 101
	November	27 345	22 896	20 027	5 376	10 283	1 672	850	1 410	89 859
	December	27 517	23 119	20 141	5 475	10 290	1 687	864	1 412	90 505
2008
	January	27 639	23 337	20 148	5 562	10 298	1 698	878	1 410	90 970
	February	27 721	23 517	20 114	5 633	10 306	1 715	889	1 405	91 300
Seasonally Adjusted
2006
	December	25 034	20 468	18 362	4 912	9 897	1 419	805	1 247	82 144
2007
	January	26 189	21 570	19 224	5 244	9 892	1 565	834	1 328	85 846
	February	26 102	22 163	19 327	5 184	10 184	1 743	820	1 410	86 933
	March	26 617	21 988	19 569	5 232	9 795	1 611	832	1 378	87 022
	April	26 343	21 267	19 209	5 190	10 062	1 553	840	1 418	85 882
	May	25 985	21 558	19 378	4 949	9 831	1 534	816	1 368	85 419
	June	27 029	22 282	19 353	5 105	10 085	1 582	821	1 387	87 644
	July	26 844	22 177	19 497	5 147	10 292	1 766	804	1 384	87 911
	August	26 558	22 258	18 496	5 056	10 293	1 498	817	1 390	86 366
	September	26 344	22 705	19 387	5 093	10 301	1 637	822	1 403	87 692
	October	27 319	22 517	19 671	5 330	10 242	1 635	847	1 414	88 975
	November	27 653	22 689	20 385	5 394	10 162	1 771	835	1 383	90 272
	December	27 610	23 159	21 285	5 290	10 250	1 618	855	1 438	91 505
2008
	January	27 867	23 629	19 630	5 937	10 577	1 735	901	1 433	91 709
	February	27 250	23 508	19 323	5 454	10 150	1 682	890	1 366	89 623
Original
2006
	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
	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
(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.