• Summary
• Downloads
• Explanatory Notes
• Related Information
• Past Releases

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.

Previously unreported sales for the months of January 2005 to August 2005 have now been included in this publication. Release of this revised data (Original, Trend and Seasonally Adjusted) has now been completed and is presented in Tables 1 and 2, with footnotes denoting the months where revisions apply.

JANUARY 2006 KEY POINTS

Trend

The January 2006 trend estimate for total sales of new motor vehicles (81,839) increased 0.2% compared with the December 2005 estimate. This is the first month since February 2005 in which the trend estimate has recorded an increase.

Small increases were recorded in January 2006 compared with December 2005 for sales of passenger vehicles (0.2%) and other vehicles (0.2%). There was no movement in the trend estimate for sports utility vehicles.

Compared with January 2005, sales of passenger vehicles decreased 1.5% and sports utility vehicles decreased 6.2%, while sales of other vehicles showed an increase of 2.7%.

Most states and territories recorded slight increases in the trend estimate for total sales of new motor vehicles in January 2006 compared with December 2005, with the exception of Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory which recorded decreases of 0.7% and 1.1% respectively.

When compared with January 2005 however, most states and territories recorded decreases in the trend estimate for sales of new motor vehicles, with the largest decreases being Tasmania (10.0%), Australian Capital Territory (6.3%) and New South Wales (5.9%). Only Western Australia and Northern Territory showed increases of 10.9% and 0.4% respectively.

Seasonally adjusted

The January 2006 seasonally adjusted estimate for total sales of new motor vehicles (83,728) increased 2.6% compared with the December 2005 estimate.

When the seasonally adjusted estimates for January 2006 were compared with December 2005, increases were recorded for passenger vehicles (4.1%) and other vehicles (1.7%). Sports utility vehicles decreased 1.5% over the same period.

Over this same period, all states and territories except Victoria recorded increases, with Northern Territory (5.5%) and Australian Capital Territory (5.0%) recording the largest increases. Victoria recorded a decrease of 0.5%.

	NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
Vehicle sales
Seasonally adjusted	25,929	21,671	18,201	5,344	8,906	1,611	818	1,248	83,728
Trend	24,899	21,556	17,661	5,318	8,867	1,567	768	1,203	81,839
Percentage change from previous month
Seasonally adjusted	4.8	-0.5	3.7	1.5	1.7	1.8	5.5	5.0	2.6
Trend	0.2	0.3	0.1	0.2	-0.0	-0.7	0.5	-1.1	0.2
Percentage change from previous year
Seasonally adjusted	-4.7	-4.5	1.2	-4.7	7.1	-12.6	8.9	-3.3	-2.3
Trend	-5.9	-0.5	-0.6	-2.1	10.9	-10.0	0.4	-6.3	-1.6

ISSUE	RELEASE DATE
February 2006	22 March 2006
March 2006	24 April 2006
April 2006	22 May 2006
May 2006	22 June 2006
June 2006	21 July 2006
July 2006	22 August 2006

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
2004	November	52,888	15,257	16,190	84,335	1.1	9.7	4.7	3.3
	December	48,673	14,311	15,996	78,980	-8.0	-6.2	-1.2	-6.3
2005	January (a)	43,075	13,877	12,761	69,713	-11.5	-3.0	-20.2	-11.7
	February (a)	50,640	15,526	14,975	81,141	17.6	11.9	17.3	16.4
	March (a)	53,282	17,454	15,902	86,638	5.2	12.4	6.2	6.8
	April (a)	46,651	13,812	16,024	76,487	-12.4	-20.9	0.8	-11.7
	May (a)	50,463	15,430	18,061	83,954	8.2	11.7	12.7	9.8
	June (a)	60,781	18,317	23,047	102,145	20.4	18.7	27.6	21.7
	July (a)	49,016	13,822	15,803	78,641	-19.4	-24.5	-31.4	-23.0
	August (a)	53,648	15,173	17,356	86,177	9.4	9.8	9.8	9.6
	September	52,118	15,080	17,242	84,440	-2.9	-0.6	-0.7	-2.0
	October	48,434	12,503	15,181	76,118	-7.1	-17.1	-12.0	-9.9
	November	52,751	14,252	16,535	83,538	8.9	14.0	8.9	9.7
	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
Seasonally adjusted
2004	November	50,379	15,123	15,816	81,318	-3.7	-4.0	-4.9	-4.0
	December	48,638	14,011	16,195	78,844	-3.5	-7.4	2.4	-3.0
2005	January	52,421	16,036	17,236	85,693	7.8	14.5	6.4	8.7
	February	52,828	16,266	16,175	85,269	0.8	1.4	-6.2	-0.5
	March	49,964	15,871	15,743	81,578	-5.4	-2.4	-2.7	-4.3
	April	51,104	15,095	16,935	83,134	2.3	-4.9	7.6	1.9
	May	50,880	14,668	16,653	82,201	-0.4	-2.8	-1.7	-1.1
	June	51,036	14,363	16,654	82,053	0.3	-2.1	0.0	-0.2
	July	50,937	14,759	16,519	82,215	-0.2	2.8	-0.8	0.2
	August	51,621	14,792	17,241	83,654	1.3	0.2	4.4	1.8
	September	51,560	15,972	17,074	84,606	-0.1	8.0	-1.0	1.1
	October	48,618	14,065	16,354	79,037	-5.7	-11.9	-4.2	-6.6
	November	50,147	13,972	16,585	80,704	3.1	-0.7	1.4	2.1
	December	49,674	15,136	16,821	81,631	-0.9	8.3	1.4	1.1
2006	January	51,721	14,902	17,105	83,728	4.1	-1.5	1.7	2.6
Trend
2004	November	50,166	15,379	16,298	81,843	1.3	1.0	0.6	1.1
	December	50,704	15,555	16,360	82,619	1.1	1.1	0.4	0.9
2005	January	51,076	15,663	16,392	83,131	0.7	0.7	0.2	0.6
	February	51,231	15,657	16,413	83,301	0.3	-0.0	0.1	0.2
	March	51,236	15,501	16,436	83,173	0.0	-1.0	0.1	-0.2
	April	51,207	15,260	16,502	82,969	-0.1	-1.6	0.4	-0.2
	May	51,160	15,021	16,606	82,787	-0.1	-1.6	0.6	-0.2
	June	51,102	14,823	16,711	82,636	-0.1	-1.3	0.6	-0.2
	July	50,986	14,719	16,797	82,502	-0.2	-0.7	0.5	-0.2
	August	50,836	14,717	16,822	82,375	-0.3	-0.0	0.1	-0.2
	September	50,580	14,733	16,789	82,102	-0.5	0.1	-0.2	-0.3
	October	50,345	14,715	16,773	81,833	-0.5	-0.1	-0.1	-0.3
	November	50,226	14,690	16,776	81,692	-0.2	-0.2	0.0	-0.2
	December	50,229	14,689	16,797	81,715	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0
2006	January	50,318	14,687	16,834	81,839	0.2	-0.0	0.2	0.2
(a) Due to source data changes these data have been revised.

		NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
		(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)
Original
2004	November	26,619	23,052	17,117	5,450	8,157	1,944	694	1,302	84,335
	December	24,315	21,700	16,537	4,998	7,341	2,245	647	1,197	78,980
2005	January (b)	22,494	18,063	14,574	4,475	6,950	1,479	560	1,118	69,713
	February (b)	25,772	20,642	17,868	5,494	7,894	1,432	777	1,262	81,141
	March (b)	27,528	22,031	19,171	5,471	8,633	1,574	889	1,341	86,638
	April (b)	24,354	19,557	16,831	5,048	7,339	1,375	859	1,124	76,487
	May (b)	26,248	21,964	18,285	5,549	8,080	1,641	913	1,274	83,954
	June (b)	30,745	25,493	24,656	6,586	10,013	2,052	1,185	1,415	102,145
	July (b)	24,998	20,025	17,631	4,813	7,727	1,438	767	1,242	78,641
	August (b)	26,292	22,550	19,330	5,458	8,714	1,689	751	1,393	86,177
	September	25,457	22,044	18,344	5,243	9,125	2,151	793	1,283	84,440
	October	22,949	20,289	16,026	5,030	8,349	1,655	659	1,161	76,118
	November	25,716	22,428	17,181	5,500	9,107	1,667	690	1,249	83,538
	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
Seasonally adjusted
2004	November	25,705	21,569	17,123	5,250	8,012	1,701	717	1,241	81,318
	December	25,075	20,890	17,292	4,781	7,224	1,672	699	1,211	78,844
2005	January	27,202	22,691	17,994	5,607	8,315	1,843	751	1,290	85,693
	February	27,414	21,652	18,505	5,652	8,137	1,717	861	1,331	85,269
	March	26,189	20,939	17,448	5,343	7,763	1,761	788	1,347	81,578
	April	26,005	21,284	18,600	5,447	8,253	1,593	784	1,168	83,134
	May	25,350	21,499	18,142	5,424	8,127	1,657	785	1,217	82,201
	June	24,949	21,386	18,649	5,220	7,988	1,804	859	1,198	82,053
	July	25,360	21,290	18,181	5,191	8,459	1,616	816	1,302	82,215
	August	25,940	21,794	18,233	5,239	8,708	1,631	806	1,303	83,654
	September	26,020	21,687	18,408	5,304	9,006	2,022	840	1,319	84,606
	October	23,456	20,771	17,427	5,244	8,603	1,613	730	1,193	79,037
	November	24,423	21,376	17,303	5,322	8,888	1,469	716	1,207	80,704
	December	24,741	21,775	17,545	5,264	8,760	1,582	775	1,189	81,631
2006	January	25,929	21,671	18,201	5,344	8,906	1,611	818	1,248	83,728
Trend
2004	November	25,900	21,427	17,419	5,390	7,978	1,736	749	1,244	81,843
	December	26,238	21,618	17,586	5,410	7,995	1,745	756	1,271	82,619
2005	January	26,471	21,666	17,776	5,431	7,997	1,741	765	1,284	83,131
	February	26,496	21,596	17,969	5,447	8,004	1,730	779	1,280	83,301
	March	26,313	21,486	18,135	5,447	8,020	1,712	795	1,265	83,173
	April	26,048	21,406	18,271	5,419	8,067	1,696	808	1,254	82,969
	May	25,775	21,383	18,361	5,364	8,149	1,690	818	1,247	82,787
	June	25,530	21,391	18,380	5,297	8,275	1,692	821	1,250	82,636
	July	25,324	21,415	18,311	5,253	8,434	1,693	815	1,257	82,502
	August	25,176	21,439	18,162	5,246	8,597	1,686	805	1,264	82,375
	September	25,028	21,424	17,968	5,252	8,715	1,664	790	1,261	82,102
	October	24,893	21,419	17,803	5,269	8,794	1,633	775	1,247	81,833
	November	24,821	21,447	17,698	5,288	8,840	1,602	767	1,229	81,692
	December	24,839	21,498	17,645	5,305	8,870	1,578	764	1,216	81,715
2006	January	24,899	21,556	17,661	5,318	8,867	1,567	768	1,203	81,839
(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.