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	NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
Vehicle sales (no.)
Trend	29 903	24 896	19 316	5 759	9 839	1 595	907	1 538	93 755
Seasonally Adjusted	29 467	24 556	19 119	5 801	9 927	1 547	910	1 472	92 799
Change from previous month (%)
Trend	0.1	-1.2	0.2	-0.4	-0.3	-0.7	-0.5	0.2	-0.3
Seasonally Adjusted	-1.5	1.5	-1.4	2.6	4.1	-1.5	2.3	-5.5	0.1
Change from previous year (%)
Trend	3.4	-1.5	-3.1	-3.9	-11.3	1.2	-5.1	1.9	-1.6
Seasonally Adjusted	1.1	-4.0	-5.2	-2.2	-11.8	-2.9	-8.5	-2.6	-3.5
(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

• Trend estimates: The February 2014 trend estimate (93 755) has decreased by 0.3% when compared with January 2014.
• Seasonally adjusted estimates: The February 2014 seasonally adjusted estimate (92 799) has increased by 0.1% when compared with January 2014.

• Trend estimates: When comparing national trend estimates for February 2014 with January 2014, sales of Passenger and Sports utility vehicles both decreased by 0.4%. Over the same period, Other vehicles increased by 1 unit to 19 387 unit sales. When comparing national trend estimates for February 2014 with February 2013, Sports utility vehicles was the only vehicle type to record an increase (1.2%).
• Seasonally adjusted estimates: When comparing seasonally adjusted estimates for February 2014 with January 2014, sales of Other and Sports utility vehicles decreased by 1.0% and 0.3% respectively. Over the same period, sales of Passenger vehicles increased by 0.8%.

• Trend estimates: Five of the eight states and territories experienced a decrease in new motor vehicle sales when comparing February 2014 with January 2014. Victoria recorded the largest percentage decrease (1.2%), followed by Tasmania (0.7%) and the Northern Territory (0.5%). Over the same period, sales in Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory both increased by 0.2%.
• Seasonally adjusted estimates: Four of the eight states and territories experienced an increase in new motor vehicle sales when comparing February 2014 with January 2014. Western Australia recorded the largest percentage increase (4.1%) followed by South Australia (2.6%) and the Northern Territory (2.3%).

Footnote(s): Break in time series for trend between June and July 2000. See paragraph 13 of the Expanatory Notes.

Source(s): Sales of New Motor Vehicles, Australia

Source(s): Sales of New Motor Vehicles, Australia

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
2012
	December	48 826	26 747	20 601	96 173	-0.7	0.9	-0.2	-0.2
2013
	January	48 191	27 045	20 476	95 712	-1.3	1.1	-0.6	-0.5
	February	47 577	27 359	20 329	95 265	-1.3	1.2	-0.7	-0.5
	March	47 230	27 620	20 122	94 972	-0.7	1.0	-1.0	-0.3
	April	47 186	27 763	19 866	94 816	-0.1	0.5	-1.3	-0.2
	May	47 314	27 757	19 600	94 671	0.3	-	-1.3	-0.2
	June	47 475	27 671	19 356	94 502	0.3	-0.3	-1.2	-0.2
	July	47 542	27 655	19 204	94 401	0.1	-0.1	-0.8	-0.1
	August	47 504	27 710	19 163	94 376	-0.1	0.2	-0.2	-
	September	47 439	27 783	19 168	94 390	-0.1	0.3	-	-
	October	47 337	27 836	19 188	94 360	-0.2	0.2	0.1	-
	November	47 187	27 865	19 269	94 322	-0.3	0.1	0.4	-
	December	47 025	27 857	19 349	94 231	-0.3	-	0.4	-0.1
2014
	January	46 868	27 808	19 386	94 062	-0.3	-0.2	0.2	-0.2
	February	46 673	27 695	19 387	93 755	-0.4	-0.4	-	-0.3
Seasonally Adjusted
2012
	December	50 247	26 486	20 004	96 736	-0.2	7.3	-1.2	1.5
2013
	January	46 446	28 031	21 118	95 595	-7.6	5.8	5.6	-1.2
	February	46 158	28 137	21 862	96 157	-0.6	0.4	3.5	0.6
	March	47 872	27 475	19 407	94 755	3.7	-2.4	-11.2	-1.5
	April	47 338	27 432	18 710	93 481	-1.1	-0.2	-3.6	-1.3
	May	46 976	27 556	19 486	94 018	-0.8	0.5	4.1	0.6
	June	48 292	28 047	20 601	96 940	2.8	1.8	5.7	3.1
	July	46 995	27 357	19 321	93 673	-2.7	-2.5	-6.2	-3.4
	August	47 834	28 126	18 439	94 399	1.8	2.8	-4.6	0.8
	September	47 131	27 665	19 102	93 899	-1.5	-1.6	3.6	-0.5
	October	47 309	26 951	18 865	93 125	0.4	-2.6	-1.2	-0.8
	November	47 426	28 330	19 387	95 144	0.2	5.1	2.8	2.2
	December	47 427	28 825	20 298	96 550	-	1.7	4.7	1.5
2014
	January	46 283	27 348	19 075	92 706	-2.4	-5.1	-6.0	-4.0
	February	46 648	27 261	18 890	92 799	0.8	-0.3	-1.0	0.1
Original
2012
	December	50 618	25 548	19 261	95 427	-2.0	-2.3	-6.3	-3.0
2013
	January	41 957	26 623	16 850	85 430	-17.1	4.2	-12.5	-10.5
	February	43 338	26 834	20 046	90 218	3.3	0.8	19.0	5.6
	March	48 664	29 148	19 588	97 400	12.3	8.6	-2.3	8.0
	April	42 844	24 384	17 889	85 117	-12.0	-16.3	-8.7	-12.6
	May	46 774	29 152	20 862	96 788	9.2	19.6	16.6	13.7
	June	57 636	34 398	26 724	118 758	23.2	18.0	28.1	22.7
	July	46 318	25 568	18 349	90 235	-19.6	-25.7	-31.3	-24.0
	August	48 060	27 515	17 761	93 336	3.8	7.6	-3.2	3.4
	September	47 149	26 199	19 314	92 662	-1.9	-4.8	8.7	-0.7
	October	46 939	26 258	19 406	92 603	-0.4	0.2	0.5	-0.1
	November	49 089	28 889	18 946	96 924	4.6	10.0	-2.4	4.7
	December	47 686	28 543	20 527	96 756	-2.9	-1.2	8.3	-0.2
2014
	January	41 626	25 868	14 791	82 285	-12.7	-9.4	-27.9	-15.0
	February	43 651	25 867	17 300	86 818	4.9	-	17.0	5.5
- 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)	Aust.
		no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.
Trend
2012
	December	29 166	25 346	20 326	5 997	11 286	1 551	977	1 524	96 173
2013
	January	29 021	25 278	20 139	6 010	11 217	1 559	968	1 520	95 712
	February	28 932	25 271	19 937	5 990	11 093	1 577	956	1 510	95 265
	March	28 959	25 336	19 745	5 942	10 940	1 600	950	1 501	94 972
	April	29 067	25 428	19 598	5 881	10 773	1 625	953	1 492	94 816
	May	29 185	25 487	19 491	5 821	10 611	1 638	959	1 479	94 671
	June	29 270	25 537	19 386	5 787	10 454	1 637	964	1 466	94 502
	July	29 330	25 641	19 270	5 789	10 319	1 630	966	1 456	94 401
	August	29 374	25 766	19 174	5 810	10 206	1 627	963	1 455	94 376
	September	29 443	25 833	19 124	5 830	10 112	1 627	956	1 466	94 390
	October	29 531	25 810	19 104	5 834	10 027	1 627	944	1 483	94 360
	November	29 652	25 690	19 135	5 824	9 959	1 626	931	1 504	94 322
	December	29 779	25 472	19 206	5 805	9 907	1 619	921	1 522	94 231
2014
	January	29 881	25 198	19 281	5 784	9 865	1 606	912	1 535	94 062
	February	29 903	24 896	19 316	5 759	9 839	1 595	907	1 538	93 755
Seasonally Adjusted
2012
	December	29 784	25 319	20 360	6 056	11 255	1 444	969	1 549	96 736
2013
	January	28 595	25 538	19 765	6 416	11 146	1 704	918	1 514	95 595
	February	29 139	25 575	20 161	5 929	11 253	1 594	994	1 511	96 157
	March	29 003	24 587	20 179	5 806	11 053	1 644	958	1 524	94 755
	April	28 648	25 612	18 919	5 911	10 490	1 548	921	1 433	93 481
	May	28 922	25 543	19 195	5 724	10 506	1 667	971	1 490	94 018
	June	30 162	25 934	20 129	5 834	10 693	1 742	923	1 524	96 940
	July	28 995	25 416	19 047	5 744	10 381	1 645	1 020	1 425	93 673
	August	29 708	25 565	19 387	5 819	10 029	1 420	992	1 480	94 399
	September	29 159	25 731	19 003	5 863	10 106	1 714	919	1 404	93 899
	October	28 959	25 494	18 772	5 759	10 113	1 642	932	1 452	93 125
	November	29 751	26 637	18 894	6 008	9 724	1 658	932	1 540	95 144
	December	30 490	26 070	19 747	5 768	10 310	1 643	949	1 573	96 550
2014
	January	29 929	24 192	19 383	5 651	9 533	1 571	890	1 557	92 706
	February	29 467	24 556	19 119	5 801	9 927	1 547	910	1 472	92 799
Original
2012
	December	28 619	25 238	20 116	6 265	11 014	1 772	859	1 544	95 427
2013
	January	26 194	22 583	16 946	5 918	10 198	1 403	748	1 440	85 430
	February	27 427	24 415	18 369	5 696	10 679	1 309	867	1 456	90 218
	March	29 928	25 360	21 135	5 680	11 145	1 564	1 075	1 513	97 400
	April	25 982	23 023	17 666	5 381	9 497	1 273	971	1 324	85 117
	May	29 707	26 226	20 221	5 761	10 610	1 597	1 132	1 534	96 788
	June	37 194	30 647	26 245	6 999	12 782	1 917	1 162	1 812	118 758
	July	27 789	24 584	18 618	5 485	9 848	1 466	1 049	1 396	90 235
	August	29 223	25 210	19 101	5 730	10 177	1 491	967	1 437	93 336
	September	28 702	25 430	18 498	5 847	10 153	1 835	852	1 345	92 662
	October	28 519	25 961	18 057	5 732	10 305	1 737	853	1 439	92 603
	November	30 496	27 547	18 381	6 216	9 815	1 984	904	1 581	96 924
	December	29 966	26 316	19 718	6 039	10 287	2 009	835	1 586	96 756
2014
	January	27 080	21 289	16 660	5 082	8 707	1 280	713	1 474	82 285
	February	27 585	23 411	17 367	5 567	9 427	1 263	791	1 407	86 818
(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.