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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.

JANUARY 2007 KEY POINTS

Trend

The January 2007 trend estimate for new motor vehicle sales (83 866) increased 0.9% compared with the December 2006 estimate. This was the eighth consecutive positive trend estimate. Since January 2006, the trend estimate has increased 3.8%.

All of the vehicle types recorded increases for at least five consecutive months of trend estimates. The largest increase from December 2006 to January 2007 was recorded by sports utility vehicles at 1.2%. Passenger vehicles increased 1.0% and other vehicle types increased 0.5%.

Compared with January 2006, increases have been recorded in sports utility vehicles (6.5%) and passenger vehicles (5.2%). However, the trend estimate for other vehicles has decreased by 2.5%.

All states and territories except Tasmania recorded increases in the trend estimate for total sales of new motor vehicles in January 2007 compared with December 2006. The ACT (1.3%) and New South Wales and Queensland (both 1.2%) recorded the largest increases. Tasmania decreased 0.7% over this time.

Seasonally adjusted

The January 2007 seasonally adjusted estimate for total sales of new motor vehicles (86 465), increased 5.3% compared with the December 2006 estimate.

All states recorded increases in monthly seasonally adjusted estimates, with South Australia recording the largest increase (10.5%), followed by Tasmania and Victoria (9.3% and 7.4% respectively). Western Australia recorded the lowest increase of 1.1%.

Over this period all vehicle types recorded increases. The other vehicles category recorded the largest increase (6.5%) followed by passenger vehicles (5.6%) and sports utility vehicles (3.0%).

	NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
Vehicle sales
Seasonally adjusted	26 625	21 834	18 995	5 356	9 975	1 535	835	1 310	86 465
Trend	25 801	20 835	18 663	5 057	9 874	1 542	813	1 281	83 866
Percentage change from previous month
Seasonally adjusted	6.0	7.4	2.8	10.5	1.1	9.3	4.8	5.0	5.3
Trend	1.2	0.7	1.2	0.9	0.5	-0.7	0.7	1.3	0.9
Percentage change from previous year
Seasonally adjusted	5.7	4.0	6.1	1.7	13.5	-2.7	4.9	5.1	5.8
Trend	4.1	-1.0	6.7	-3.2	13.4	-1.2	5.7	6.5	3.8

ISSUE	RELEASE DATE
February 2007	21 March 2007
March 2007	20 April 2007
April 2007	22 May 2007
May 2007 June 2007 July 2007	20 June 2007 20 July 2007 22 August 2007

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
2005	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
	February	48 483	13 506	15 457	77 446	10.8	1.9	19.0	10.6
	March	53 188	15 896	18 072	87 156	9.7	17.7	16.9	12.5
	April	42 307	11 901	14 442	68 650	-20.5	-25.1	-20.1	-21.2
	May	50 683	14 816	17 958	83 457	19.8	24.5	24.3	21.6
	June	57 026	18 079	21 343	96 448	12.5	22.0	18.8	15.6
	July	48 798	13 279	15 485	77 562	-14.4	-26.6	-27.4	-19.6
	August	52 030	13 539	16 092	81 661	6.6	2.0	3.9	5.3
	September	51 388	13 208	15 397	79 993	-1.2	-2.4	-4.3	-2.0
	October	50 532	13 921	15 477	79 930	-1.7	5.4	0.5	-0.1
	November	51 850	15 193	16 254	83 297	2.6	9.1	5.0	4.2
	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
Seasonally adjusted
2005	November	50 409	14 212	16 630	81 251	2.3	2.0	3.1	2.4
	December	49 870	14 937	17 023	81 830	-1.1	5.1	2.4	0.7
2006	January	50 606	14 445	16 704	81 755	1.5	-3.3	-1.9	-0.1
	February	49 791	14 077	16 604	80 472	-1.6	-2.5	-0.6	-1.6
	March	48 547	13 959	16 595	79 101	-2.5	-0.8	-0.1	-1.7
	April	49 356	13 916	16 328	79 600	1.7	-0.3	-1.6	0.6
	May	49 517	13 954	16 300	79 771	0.3	0.3	-0.2	0.2
	June	48 793	14 357	15 623	78 773	-1.5	2.9	-4.2	-1.3
	July	50 709	14 192	16 101	81 002	3.9	-1.1	3.1	2.8
	August	50 291	13 072	15 903	79 266	-0.8	-7.9	-1.2	-2.1
	September	51 048	14 560	15 978	81 586	1.5	11.4	0.5	2.9
	October	50 341	15 034	16 239	81 614	-1.4	3.3	1.6	0.0
	November	50 195	14 849	15 936	80 980	-0.3	-1.2	-1.9	-0.8
	December	51 496	14 825	15 775	82 096	2.6	-0.2	-1.0	1.4
2007	January	54 383	15 276	16 806	86 465	5.6	3.0	6.5	5.3
Trend
2005	November	50 228	14 592	16 748	81 568	-0.4	-0.8	-0.2	-0.5
	December	50 024	14 432	16 720	81 176	-0.4	-1.1	-0.2	-0.5
2006	January	49 799	14 280	16 689	80 768	-0.4	-1.1	-0.2	-0.5
	February	49 564	14 188	16 625	80 377	-0.5	-0.6	-0.4	-0.5
	March	49 366	14 118	16 509	79 993	-0.4	-0.5	-0.7	-0.5
	April	49 275	14 027	16 332	79 634	-0.2	-0.6	-1.1	-0.4
	May	49 365	13 939	16 152	79 456	0.2	-0.6	-1.1	-0.2
	June	49 632	13 932	16 032	79 596	0.5	-0.1	-0.7	0.2
	July	49 904	14 004	15 961	79 869	0.5	0.5	-0.4	0.3
	August	50 176	14 140	15 938	80 254	0.5	1.0	-0.1	0.5
	September	50 456	14 337	15 966	80 759	0.6	1.4	0.2	0.6
	October	50 828	14 572	16 027	81 427	0.7	1.6	0.4	0.8
	November	51 307	14 808	16 102	82 217	0.9	1.6	0.5	1.0
	December	51 879	15 016	16 195	83 090	1.1	1.4	0.6	1.1
2007	January	52 394	15 203	16 269	83 866	1.0	1.2	0.5	0.9

		NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
		(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)
Original
2005	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
	February	24 495	19 979	16 452	5 085	8 165	1 373	731	1 166	77 446
	March	27 165	21 461	19 833	5 195	9 750	1 540	913	1 299	87 156
	April	21 171	17 636	14 820	4 619	7 507	1 129	764	1 004	68 650
	May	25 124	20 776	18 774	5 601	9 472	1 623	863	1 224	83 457
	June	28 560	23 015	23 091	6 164	11 170	1 936	1 058	1 454	96 448
	July	23 688	19 322	17 910	4 794	8 720	1 334	679	1 115	77 562
	August	24 223	21 043	18 124	5 107	9 736	1 436	768	1 224	81 661
	September	24 267	20 449	17 061	4 903	9 716	1 688	682	1 227	79 993
	October November	24 379 25 418	20 785 20 739	16 625 18 076	4 781 5 116	9 591 9 972	1 797 1 973	762 733	1 210 1 270	79 930 83 297
	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
Seasonally adjusted
2005	November	24 773	21 470	17 400	5 324	8 894	1 469	721	1 200	81 251
	December	24 906	21 897	17 478	5 292	8 723	1 585	769	1 180	81 830
2006	January	25 179	20 990	17 910	5 268	8 788	1 577	796	1 247	81 755
	February	24 982	20 862	17 241	5 229	8 537	1 621	791	1 209	80 472
	March	24 458	19 909	17 590	4 850	8 724	1 592	773	1 205	79 101
	April	24 095	20 454	17 391	5 334	8 879	1 500	750	1 197	79 600
	May	23 908	20 141	17 779	5 235	9 234	1 591	739	1 144	79 771
	June	24 028	19 442	17 498	5 032	9 070	1 707	761	1 235	78 773
	July	24 224	20 456	18 253	5 126	9 505	1 525	745	1 168	81 002
	August	23 934	20 227	17 276	4 916	9 500	1 418	797	1 198	79 266
	September	24 821	20 804	17 546	5 054	9 668	1 682	766	1 245	81 586
	October	25 091	20 435	17 845	4 907	9 636	1 654	835	1 211	81 614
	November	24 720	19 752	18 324	4 914	9 603	1 652	760	1 255	80 980
	December	25 122	20 328	18 480	4 845	9 871	1 405	797	1 248	82 096
2007	January	26 625	21 834	18 995	5 356	9 975	1 535	835	1 310	86 465
Trend
2005	November	24 934	21 366	17 656	5 274	8 749	1 596	769	1 224	81 568
	December	24 858	21 248	17 544	5 255	8 725	1 570	766	1 210	81 176
2006	January	24 782	21 041	17 483	5 224	8 705	1 561	769	1 203	80 768
	February	24 684	20 757	17 480	5 193	8 721	1 570	770	1 202	80 377
	March	24 514	20 443	17 529	5 169	8 788	1 582	768	1 200	79 993
	April	24 279	20 173	17 585	5 150	8 905	1 585	762	1 195	79 634
	May	24 080	20 048	17 613	5 131	9 063	1 577	755	1 189	79 456
	June	24 031	20 077	17 627	5 108	9 235	1 574	756	1 188	79 596
	July	24 099	20 148	17 638	5 063	9 385	1 580	762	1 194	79 869
	August	24 282	20 220	17 681	5 008	9 499	1 587	773	1 204	80 254
	September	24 539	20 297	17 783	4 965	9 586	1 588	784	1 217	80 759
	October	24 837	20 397	17 962	4 957	9 666	1 582	792	1 234	81 427
	November	25 159	20 524	18 195	4 977	9 745	1 570	799	1 248	82 217
	December	25 490	20 692	18 447	5 014	9 823	1 553	807	1 264	83 090
2007	January	25 801	20 835	18 663	5 057	9 874	1 542	813	1 281	83 866
(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.