FEBRUARY KEY FIGURES

	NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
Vehicle sales (no.)
Trend	26 290	22 531	18 118	5 163	9 590	1 198	858	1 291	85 038
Seasonally Adjusted	26 106	22 872	18 137	5 386	9 665	1 237	830	1 217	85 448
Change from previous month (%)
Trend	-1.1	-0.2	-0.5	-0.1	0.5	-3.3	-0.8	-1.4	-0.5
Seasonally Adjusted	-0.6	1.3	-1.0	5.7	-	6.3	-13.3	-11.4	-
Change from previous year (%)
Trend	1.6	-0.5	7.0	-1.4	4.5	-19.3	6.5	-1.6	1.9
Seasonally Adjusted	1.3	-0.8	5.2	1.1	6.5	-13.2	11.0	-9.3	1.7
- 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.

FEBRUARY KEY POINTS


TOTAL NEW MOTOR VEHICLE SALES

• The February 2012 trend estimate (85 038) has decreased by 0.5% when compared with January 2012.
• Seasonally Adjusted - The February 2012 seasonally adjusted estimate for new motor vehicle sales (85 448) decreased by 31 units when compared with January 2012.

SALES BY TYPE OF VEHICLE

• When comparing national trend estimates for February 2012 with January 2012, sales of Passenger vehicles decreased by 0.6%, while sales of Sports utility vehicles increased by 0.4%. Over the same period sales of Other vehicles decreased by 1.7%.
• Seasonally Adjusted - When comparing seasonally adjusted estimates for February 2012 with January 2012, sales of Passenger vehicles and Sports utility vehicles have decreased by 0.9% and 1.9% respectively. Over the same period Other vehicles increased by 5.9%.

SALES BY STATE

• Seven of the eight states and territories have experienced a decrease in the trend estimate for new motor vehicle sales when comparing February 2012 with January 2012. Tasmania recorded the largest percentage decrease (3.3%), followed by the Australian Capital Territory (1.4%) and New South Wales (1.1%). Sales in Western Australia have increased by 0.5% over the same period.
• In seasonally adjusted terms, sales of new motor vehicles decreased in four of the eight states and territories when comparing February 2012 with January 2012. Northern Territory recorded the largest percentage decrease, with 13.3%, followed by the Australian Capital Territory (11.4%) and Queensland (1.0%). Over the same period Tasmania increased by 6.3%.

NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE	Release Date
March 2012	17 April 2012
April 2012	15 May 2012
May 2012	18 June 2012
June 2012	17 July 2012
July 2012	14 August 2012
August 2012	17 September 2012

ABOUT THIS ISSUE

This issue presents details for the Sales of New Motor Vehicles for February 2012.


DATA NOTES

Recent flooding in Thailand may have had an impact on new vehicle sales in Australia due to associated delays in delivery of Thai manufactured vehicles and vehicle parts. Impacts from the flooding could continue to disrupt the supply of new motor vehicles to Australia from Thailand in coming months.

The earthquake and tsunami which occurred in Japan in March 2011 had an impact on the number of new vehicle sales in Australia in mid 2011 due to a reduction in supply. These events are no longer affecting the supply of new vehicles, with Japanese motor vehicle production now returning to levels observed before March 2011.

As new motor vehicle sales are influenced by a range of factors, it is not possible to quantify the specific impacts of these events.


INQUIRIES

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SUMMARY COMMENTARY

New motor vehicle sales by type of vehicle by month
		Passenger vehicles	Sports utility vehicles	Other vehicles	Total vehicles	Change Passenger vehicles	Change Sports utility vehicles	Change Other vehicles	Change Total vehicles
		no.	no.	no.	no.	%	%	%	%
Trend
2010
	December	48 098	19 295	17 172	84 565	0.3	-1.5	1.6	0.2
2011
	January	47 930	18 963	17 417	84 310	-0.3	-1.7	1.4	-0.3
	February	47 396	18 585	17 501	83 483	-1.1	-2.0	0.5	-1.0
	March	46 710	18 296	17 391	82 398	-1.4	-1.6	-0.6	-1.3
	April	46 082	18 267	17 164	81 512	-1.3	-0.2	-1.3	-1.1
	May	45 756	18 537	16 982	81 274	-0.7	1.5	-1.1	-0.3
	June	45 863	19 128	16 989	81 980	0.2	3.2	-	0.9
	July	46 283	19 978	17 166	83 427	0.9	4.4	1.0	1.8
	August	46 805	20 961	17 350	85 116	1.1	4.9	1.1	2.0
	September	47 210	21 834	17 398	86 442	0.9	4.2	0.3	1.6
	October	47 306	22 407	17 205	86 918	0.2	2.6	-1.1	0.6
	November	47 074	22 688	16 810	86 572	-0.5	1.3	-2.3	-0.4
	December	46 749	22 881	16 385	86 015	-0.7	0.9	-2.5	-0.6
2012
	January	46 430	23 034	16 013	85 478	-0.7	0.7	-2.3	-0.6
	February	46 152	23 138	15 748	85 038	-0.6	0.4	-1.7	-0.5
Seasonally Adjusted
2010
	December	51 303	18 247	17 527	87 076	6.4	-7.6	5.3	2.9
2011
	January	47 689	18 412	17 219	83 319	-7.0	0.9	-1.8	-4.3
	February	47 101	19 359	17 536	83 996	-1.2	5.1	1.8	0.8
	March	47 454	21 394	18 413	87 260	0.7	10.5	5.0	3.9
	April	47 157	19 098	17 188	83 444	-0.6	-10.7	-6.6	-4.4
	May	43 591	16 870	16 479	76 940	-7.6	-11.7	-4.1	-7.8
	June	44 944	17 252	15 771	77 968	3.1	2.3	-4.3	1.3
	July	46 900	20 807	17 514	85 221	4.4	20.6	11.1	9.3
	August	47 581	22 870	17 527	87 979	1.5	9.9	0.1	3.2
	September	47 036	21 810	18 174	87 020	-1.1	-4.6	3.7	-1.1
	October	48 475	21 613	17 403	87 491	3.1	-0.9	-4.2	0.5
	November	46 521	22 992	17 249	86 762	-4.0	6.4	-0.9	-0.8
	December	46 405	22 739	15 248	84 393	-0.2	-1.1	-11.6	-2.7
2012
	January	46 453	23 424	15 540	85 417	0.1	3.0	1.9	1.2
	February	46 015	22 971	16 462	85 448	-0.9	-1.9	5.9	-
Original
2010
	December	51 039	18 555	16 993	86 587	3.3	-10.8	-0.8	-0.9
2011
	January	43 539	17 032	13 013	73 584	-14.7	-8.2	-23.4	-15.0
	February	45 455	18 916	16 525	80 896	4.4	11.1	27.0	9.9
	March	50 228	23 066	20 690	93 984	10.5	21.9	25.2	16.2
	April	41 565	17 054	15 595	74 214	-17.2	-26.1	-24.6	-21.0
	May	r42 577	17 121	17 703	r77 401	2.4	0.4	13.5	4.3
	June	54 322	21 518	20 317	96 157	27.6	25.7	14.8	24.2
	July	45 701	19 383	15 907	80 991	-15.9	-9.9	-21.7	-15.8
	August	48 423	22 111	17 548	88 082	6.0	14.1	10.3	8.8
	September	47 700	20 778	18 341	86 819	-1.5	-6.0	4.5	-1.4
	October	47 536	20 400	17 260	85 196	-0.3	-1.8	-5.9	-1.9
	November	46 712	24 182	17 760	88 654	-1.7	18.5	2.9	4.1
	December	45 764	22 367	14 328	82 459	-2.0	-7.5	-19.3	-7.0
2012
	January	42 555	22 123	12 105	76 783	-7.0	-1.1	-15.5	-6.9
	February	46 019	23 448	16 256	85 723	8.1	6.0	34.3	11.6
- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells)
r revised

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
2010
	December	26 072	23 139	16 850	5 395	9 378	1 589	811	1 332	84 565
2011
	January	26 063	23 032	16 910	5 343	9 281	1 550	806	1 325	84 310
	February	25 887	22 645	16 938	5 237	9 175	1 484	805	1 311	83 483
	March	25 622	22 120	16 963	5 119	9 061	1 418	802	1 293	82 398
	April	25 371	21 664	17 003	5 052	8 976	1 372	799	1 276	81 512
	May	25 273	21 471	17 094	5 071	8 934	1 361	802	1 267	81 274
	June	25 460	21 620	17 297	5 174	8 956	1 381	816	1 276	81 980
	July	25 918	22 029	17 597	5 307	9 027	1 413	834	1 300	83 427
	August	26 507	22 496	17 959	5 403	9 132	1 434	854	1 331	85 116
	September	26 993	22 827	18 290	5 422	9 254	1 431	870	1 354	86 442
	October	27 200	22 910	18 447	5 365	9 361	1 397	879	1 359	86 918
	November	27 098	22 789	18 412	5 273	9 431	1 344	878	1 348	86 572
	December	26 856	22 663	18 312	5 206	9 488	1 289	871	1 330	86 015
2012
	January	26 571	22 577	18 207	5 166	9 544	1 239	864	1 309	85 478
	February	26 290	22 531	18 118	5 163	9 590	1 198	858	1 291	85 038
Seasonally Adjusted
2010
	December	28 086	23 333	16 863	5 480	9 484	1 679	802	1 348	87 076
2011
	January	26 206	23 171	15 660	5 391	9 075	1 540	934	1 342	83 319
	February	25 769	23 064	17 244	5 329	9 077	1 425	748	1 341	83 996
	March	27 230	23 360	18 586	5 178	9 281	1 445	853	1 327	87 260
	April	25 766	22 266	17 673	5 042	9 203	1 380	828	1 285	83 444
	May	24 471	19 508	16 233	4 649	8 793	1 314	798	1 175	76 940
	June	24 058	20 939	16 146	5 006	8 535	1 279	774	1 230	77 968
	July	26 272	22 707	17 938	5 655	9 028	1 431	815	1 374	85 221
	August	27 405	23 373	18 558	5 487	9 448	1 556	819	1 331	87 979
	September	26 842	22 976	18 417	5 688	9 347	1 439	957	1 354	87 020
	October	27 513	23 062	18 707	5 203	9 237	1 447	933	1 389	87 491
	November	27 690	22 540	18 422	5 186	9 484	1 254	834	1 351	86 762
	December	26 431	22 267	17 860	5 108	9 315	1 334	779	1 297	84 393
2012
	January	26 276	22 577	18 315	5 096	9 661	1 163	957	1 373	85 417
	February	26 106	22 872	18 137	5 386	9 665	1 237	830	1 217	85 448
Original
2010
	December	27 195	23 873	16 422	5 636	9 238	2 181	714	1 328	86 587
2011
	January	23 560	20 323	13 300	4 792	8 289	1 309	772	1 239	73 584
	February	25 048	22 446	16 283	5 128	8 686	1 273	680	1 352	80 896
	March	29 750	24 808	20 395	5 360	9 718	1 520	995	1 438	93 984
	April	22 570	19 535	16 403	4 467	8 101	1 124	862	1 152	74 214
	May	24 470	r19 570	16 519	4 782	8 703	1 268	942	1 147	r77 401
	June	29 685	25 091	21 062	6 057	10 424	1 443	985	1 410	96 157
	July	24 893	21 743	17 341	5 255	8 433	1 196	800	1 330	80 991
	August	27 274	23 436	18 298	5 446	9 903	1 581	802	1 342	88 082
	September	26 661	22 845	18 040	5 853	9 731	1 494	881	1 314	86 819
	October	26 608	22 996	17 972	5 041	8 974	1 439	808	1 358	85 196
	November	28 966	23 049	18 038	5 304	9 650	1 435	799	1 413	88 654
	December	25 109	22 356	17 225	5 275	8 880	1 687	666	1 261	82 459
2012
	January	24 004	20 278	15 732	4 622	9 014	1 008	820	1 305	76 783
	February	26 391	23 270	17 839	5 344	9 673	1 148	776	1 282	85 723
r revised
(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.