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FEBRUARY KEY FIGURES

	NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
Vehicle sales (no.)
Trend	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np
Seasonally Adjusted	26 134	22 685	17 675	5 410	9 401	1 625	802	1 304	85 035
Change from previous month (%)
Trend	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np
Seasonally Adjusted	0.9	-1.8	-3.4	-8.1	-1.2	-5.8	-12.5	-0.5	-1.9
Change from previous year (%)
Trend	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np
Seasonally Adjusted	17.3	20.1	14.6	21.5	14.8	19.4	5.6	5.8	17.1
- 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

• Following the Commonwealth Budget in May 2009, the eligibility period for the Small Business and General Business Tax Break was extended to December 2009. The rebate level was also increased for small businesses, allowing eligible businesses to claim an increased tax deduction on the purchase of new motor vehicles.
• The trend series attempts to measure the underlying behaviour in new motor vehicle sales. In the short term, this measurement may be significantly affected by unusual influences in the original and seasonally adjusted data, like those observed from May to July 2009. If the trend estimates in the publication were to be calculated without fully accounting for this irregular event, they would be likely to provide a misleading view of the underlying trend in new motor vehicle sales activity.
• The new motor vehicle sales trend series has therefore been suspended from May 2009. The trend series will be reintroduced when more certainty emerges in the underlying behaviour of new car sales.
• Seasonally adjusted estimates can still be produced and will continue to be published as usual.
• This publication shows the trend series to April 2009 and seasonally adjusted series to February 2010.

• Trend - See Suspension of trend estimates above.
• Seasonally Adjusted - The February 2010 seasonally adjusted estimate for total sales of new motor vehicles (85 035) decreased by 1.9% when compared to January 2010. The February 2010 seasonally adjusted estimate for total new motor vehicle sales increased by 17.1% when compared to the February 2009 estimate.

• Trend - See Suspension of trend estimates above.
• Seasonally adjusted - When comparing February 2010 with January 2010, Other vehicles decreased by 8.6% and Passenger vehicles by 0.1%. Sports utility vehicles increased by 0.4% over the same period. When comparing February 2010 to February 2009, sales of Sports utility vehicles increased by 31.9%, Other vehicles by 16.4%, and Passenger vehicles by 12.6%.

• Trend - See Suspension of trend estimates above.
• Seasonally adjusted - Sales of new motor vehicles decreased for seven of the eight states or territories in seasonally adjusted terms for February 2010 compared to January 2010. Northern Territory recorded the largest percentage decrease, dropping by 12.5%, followed by South Australia and Tasmania, with decreases of 8.1% and 5.8% respectively. New South Wales reported the only percentage increase of 0.9% when comparing February 2010 to January 2010. All states and territories increased when comparing February 2010 to February 2009 with South Australia showing the largest percentage increase of 21.5%.

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
2008
	December	44 610	14 032	16 576	75 218	-1.7	-1.0	-3.3	-1.9
2009
	January	43 895	13 993	16 027	73 915	-1.6	-0.3	-3.3	-1.7
	February	43 327	14 039	15 579	72 945	-1.3	0.3	-2.8	-1.3
	March	43 042	14 181	15 274	72 497	-0.7	1.0	-2.0	-0.6
	April	43 140	14 378	15 110	72 628	0.2	1.4	-1.1	0.2
	May	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np
	June	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np
	July	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np
	August	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np
	September	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np
	October	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np
	November	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np
	December	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np
2010
	January	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np
	February	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np
Seasonally Adjusted
2008
	December	45 441	14 335	16 916	76 692	1.9	5.2	1.2	2.4
2009
	January	45 043	14 309	15 708	75 060	-0.9	-0.2	-7.1	-2.1
	February	43 363	14 117	15 114	72 594	-3.7	-1.3	-3.8	-3.3
	March	41 278	13 626	15 492	70 396	-4.8	-3.5	2.5	-3.0
	April	42 764	14 293	15 012	72 069	3.6	4.9	-3.1	2.4
	May	44 038	15 363	17 181	76 582	3.0	7.5	14.4	6.3
	June	45 078	16 380	20 028	81 485	2.4	6.6	16.6	6.4
	July	45 340	15 159	14 720	75 219	0.6	-7.5	-26.5	-7.7
	August	45 712	14 914	14 873	75 499	0.8	-1.6	1.0	0.4
	September	46 571	15 314	16 717	78 602	1.9	2.7	12.4	4.1
	October	47 301	16 316	18 656	82 273	1.6	6.5	11.6	4.7
	November	47 661	18 853	20 449	86 964	0.8	15.6	9.6	5.7
	December	46 960	19 483	23 326	89 769	-1.5	3.3	14.1	3.2
2010
	January	48 877	18 543	19 237	86 657	4.1	-4.8	-17.5	-3.5
	February	48 832	18 618	17 586	85 035	-0.1	0.4	-8.6	-1.9
Original
2008
	December	45 696	14 422	16 392	76 510	6.2	13.2	3.3	6.8
2009
	January	41 309	13 435	12 335	67 079	-9.6	-6.8	-24.7	-12.3
	February	42 463	13 699	14 079	70 241	2.8	2.0	14.1	4.7
	March	43 484	15 022	17 144	75 650	2.4	9.7	21.8	7.7
	April	36 697	13 092	14 176	63 965	-15.6	-12.8	-17.3	-15.4
	May	42 245	15 562	17 634	75 441	15.1	18.9	24.4	17.9
	June	55 837	20 459	26 551	102 847	32.2	31.5	50.6	36.3
	July	46 099	14 752	14 482	75 333	-17.4	-27.9	-45.5	-26.8
	August	44 918	13 972	14 397	73 287	-2.6	-5.3	-0.6	-2.7
	September	47 284	14 443	16 404	78 131	5.3	3.4	13.9	6.6
	October	46 544	15 741	18 528	80 813	-1.6	9.0	12.9	3.4
	November	47 059	18 360	20 414	85 833	1.1	16.6	10.2	6.2
	December	46 623	19 616	22 469	88 708	-0.9	6.8	10.1	3.3
2010
	January	43 580	16 900	14 384	74 864	-6.5	-13.8	-36.0	-15.6
	February	47 829	18 073	16 317	82 219	9.7	6.9	13.4	9.8

New motor vehicle sales by state/territory of registration
		NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
		no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.
Trend
2008
	December	22 866	19 723	15 794	4 838	8 595	1 402	779	1 221	75 218
2009
	January	22 569	19 373	15 538	4 720	8 348	1 389	750	1 227	73 915
	February	22 343	19 112	15 328	4 633	8 179	1 394	728	1 226	72 945
	March	22 257	18 990	15 231	4 594	8 085	1 405	715	1 220	72 497
	April	22 343	19 025	15 269	4 607	8 046	1 411	715	1 211	72 628
	May	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np
	June	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np
	July	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np
	August	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np
	September	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np
	October	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np
	November	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np
	December	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np
2010
	January	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np
	February	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np
Seasonally Adjusted
2008
	December	22 977	20 310	16 437	4 930	8 578	1 362	835	1 264	76 692
2009
	January	23 152	19 770	15 604	4 752	8 392	1 395	744	1 251	75 060
	February	22 287	18 887	15 428	4 451	8 187	1 362	759	1 233	72 594
	March	21 489	18 576	14 511	4 616	7 981	1 448	619	1 157	70 396
	April	22 342	18 586	15 255	4 556	7 963	1 399	723	1 246	72 069
	May	23 504	20 348	16 079	4 942	8 307	1 442	751	1 209	76 582
	June	24 765	21 507	17 375	5 182	8 974	1 555	742	1 385	81 485
	July	23 286	19 967	15 926	4 855	7 888	1 297	792	1 208	75 219
	August	23 675	19 322	16 170	4 889	8 003	1 453	775	1 211	75 499
	September	24 398	20 683	16 899	5 228	8 023	1 379	761	1 230	78 602
	October	25 028	21 852	17 642	5 572	8 594	1 512	766	1 306	82 273
	November	26 568	23 531	18 575	5 750	8 851	1 480	884	1 326	86 964
	December	27 984	23 103	19 585	5 993	9 184	1 808	803	1 308	89 769
2010
	January	25 901	23 096	18 306	5 884	9 519	1 725	916	1 310	86 657
	February	26 134	22 685	17 675	5 410	9 401	1 625	802	1 304	85 035
Original
2008
	December	22 421	20 792	16 163	5 028	8 416	1 660	751	1 279	76 510
2009
	January	21 085	17 493	13 521	4 355	7 648	1 234	588	1 155	67 079
	February	21 969	18 273	14 604	4 336	7 864	1 227	706	1 262	70 241
	March	23 550	19 503	16 124	4 779	8 329	1 388	718	1 259	75 650
	April	19 596	16 395	13 801	4 128	7 043	1 146	772	1 084	63 965
	May	22 958	19 995	15 884	5 025	8 150	1 404	851	1 174	75 441
	June	31 089	26 508	23 509	6 406	10 838	1 814	991	1 692	102 847
	July	23 472	19 884	16 403	4 632	7 817	1 184	761	1 180	75 333
	August	22 704	18 848	15 661	4 696	8 003	1 476	723	1 176	73 287
	September	24 367	20 857	16 255	5 141	8 217	1 382	698	1 214	78 131
	October	24 251	21 989	16 830	5 506	8 763	1 520	696	1 258	80 813
	November	26 559	23 417	17 719	5 698	8 702	1 619	810	1 309	85 833
	December	26 848	23 398	18 995	6 213	8 967	2 242	737	1 308	88 708
2010
	January	22 820	19 746	15 253	5 151	8 521	1 487	716	1 170	74 864
	February	25 708	21 924	16 744	5 242	9 048	1 474	742	1 337	82 219
(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.