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JULY 2007 KEY POINTS

Trend

The July 2007 trend estimate for new motor vehicle sales (87 238) increased 0.1% when compared with the June 2007 estimate. The trend estimate has now been increasing for 14 consecutive months. When compared to July 2006, the trend estimate increased by 9.1%

Passenger vehicles increased 0.2% and sports utility vehicles increased 0.1% when comparing July 2007 to June 2007. The increase in trend estimates for passenger vehicles has continued for a period of 15 months, with sports utility vehicles showing increases for the last 14 months. Other vehicles, however, have decreased by 0.1% when comparing July 2007 to June 2007. This is the first monthly decrease for other vehicle trend estimates since September 2006.

All vehicle types have recorded increases when compared to the same period 12 months ago. Sports utility vehicles, other vehicles and passenger vehicles rose 14.0%, 9.6% and 7.6%, respectively.

Seasonally adjusted

The July 2007 seasonally adjusted estimate for total sales of new motor vehicles (88 063) increased by 0.6% compared with June 2007. Other vehicles increased by 2.8% and sports utility vehicles increased by 1.2%. Passenger vehicles decreased by 0.3%.

Total sales increased in six states and territories when comparing July 2007 to June 2007, with Tasmania recording the largest increase of 5.4%. Western Australia and South Australia followed with increases of 2.4% and 1.4% respectively. The Northern Territory and Victoria both recorded decreases of 3.0% and 0.3% respectively.

	NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
Vehicle sales
Seasonally adjusted	26 940	22 133	19 591	5 154	10 345	1 712	798	1 390	88 063
Trend	26 687	21 957	19 520	5 069	10 170	1 632	810	1 393	87 238
Percentage change from previous month
Seasonally adjusted	0.2	-0.3	0.9	1.4	2.4	5.4	-3.0	0.3	0.6
Trend	0.2	0.1	0.2	-0.8	0.6	0.4	-0.9	-0.4	0.1
Percentage change from previous year
Seasonally adjusted	11.3	8.0	6.7	0.8	9.4	15.0	6.4	19.3	8.7
Trend	10.7	8.9	10.5	-0.1	8.2	3.9	6.2	17.0	9.1

ISSUE	RELEASE DATE
August 2007	21 September 2007
September 2007	19 October 2007
October 2007	21 November 2007
November 2007	21 December 2007
December 2007	22 January 2008
January 2008	21 February 2008

SUMMARY - TREND AND SEASONALLY ADJUSTED ESTIMATES.

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
2006	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
	February	52 628	14 912	16 200	83 740	7.0	4.3	20.5	8.8
	March	57 757	17 589	19 046	94 392	9.7	18.0	17.6	12.7
	April	45 109	14 274	16 231	75 614	-21.9	-18.8	-14.8	-19.9
	May	52 727	16 912	18 958	88 597	16.9	18.5	16.8	17.2
	June	63 768	18 966	22 363	105 097	20.9	12.1	18.0	18.6
	July	53 589	15 396	17 306	86 291	-16.0	-18.8	-22.6	-17.9
Seasonally adjusted
2006	May	49 821	14 024	16 412	80 257	0.2	1.4	1.2	0.6
	June	48 438	14 323	15 726	78 487	-2.8	2.1	-4.2	-2.2
	July	50 840	14 182	16 014	81 036	5.0	-1.0	1.8	3.2
	August	50 354	13 125	15 944	79 423	-1.0	-7.5	-0.4	-2.0
	September	50 908	14 527	16 008	81 443	1.1	10.7	0.4	2.5
	October	50 380	15 043	16 317	81 740	-1.0	3.6	1.9	0.4
	November	50 596	14 892	16 070	81 558	0.4	-1.0	-1.5	-0.2
	December	51 563	14 838	15 697	82 098	1.9	-0.4	-2.3	0.7
2007	January	54 269	15 353	16 945	86 567	5.2	3.5	8.0	5.4
	February	53 684	15 462	17 249	86 395	-1.1	0.7	1.8	-0.2
	March	53 920	15 587	17 562	87 069	0.4	0.8	1.8	0.8
	April	51 993	16 369	17 437	85 799	-3.6	5.0	-0.7	-1.5
	May	52 639	15 657	17 342	85 638	1.2	-4.3	-0.5	-0.2
	June	54 492	15 797	17 250	87 539	3.5	0.9	-0.5	2.2
	July	54 345	15 986	17 732	88 063	-0.3	1.2	2.8	0.6
Trend
2006	May	49 420	13 921	16 124	79 465	0.2	-0.6	-0.9	-0.2
	June	49 674	13 922	16 039	79 635	0.5	0.0	-0.5	0.2
	July	49 933	14 004	15 990	79 927	0.5	0.6	-0.3	0.4
	August	50 175	14 138	15 958	80 271	0.5	1.0	-0.2	0.4
	September	50 447	14 332	15 953	80 732	0.5	1.4	-0.0	0.6
	October	50 893	14 561	16 016	81 470	0.9	1.6	0.4	0.9
	November	51 528	14 826	16 173	82 527	1.2	1.8	1.0	1.3
	December	52 179	15 098	16 422	83 699	1.3	1.8	1.5	1.4
2007	January	52 734	15 338	16 719	84 791	1.1	1.6	1.8	1.3
	February	53 132	15 520	17 013	85 665	0.8	1.2	1.8	1.0
	March	53 318	15 671	17 249	86 238	0.4	1.0	1.4	0.7
	April	53 388	15 808	17 404	86 600	0.1	0.9	0.9	0.4
	May	53 478	15 897	17 487	86 862	0.2	0.6	0.5	0.3
	June	53 632	15 953	17 544	87 129	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.3
	July	53 740	15 968	17 530	87 238	0.2	0.1	-0.1	0.1

		NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
		(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)
Original
2006	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	24 379	20 785	16 625	4 781	9 591	1 797	762	1 210	79 930
	November	25 418	20 739	18 076	5 116	9 972	1 973	733	1 270	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
	February	25 636	21 510	18 221	5 138	9 625	1 463	771	1 376	83 740
	March	29 107	23 408	21 772	5 588	10 530	1 533	978	1 476	94 392
	April	23 245	18 833	16 907	4 616	8 701	1 214	883	1 215	75 614
	May	26 649	22 151	20 428	5 237	10 172	1 587	973	1 400	88 597
	June	31 965	25 491	24 997	6 152	11 995	1 750	1 107	1 640	105 097
	July	26 851	21 655	19 600	4 871	9 645	1 561	739	1 369	86 291
Seasonally adjusted
2006	May	24 140	20 199	17 793	5 318	9 285	1 627	740	1 155	80 257
	June	23 871	19 308	17 516	5 030	9 100	1 679	756	1 227	78 487
	July	24 210	20 485	18 365	5 115	9 457	1 489	750	1 165	81 036
	August	23 973	20 342	17 223	4 940	9 534	1 415	801	1 195	79 423
	September	24 721	20 744	17 588	5 028	9 665	1 684	765	1 248	81 443
	October	25 138	20 524	17 889	4 890	9 625	1 634	838	1 202	81 740
	November	24 902	19 989	18 392	4 970	9 596	1 672	765	1 272	81 558
	December	25 037	20 370	18 596	4 824	9 795	1 411	804	1 261	82 098
2007	January	26 714	21 744	19 030	5 404	9 933	1 568	839	1 335	86 567
	February	25 964	22 187	19 074	5 207	10 020	1 719	827	1 397	86 395
	March	26 670	21 954	19 558	5 263	9 807	1 599	827	1 391	87 069
	April	26 347	21 202	19 240	5 214	9 991	1 553	842	1 410	85 799
	May	25 948	21 636	19 390	4 979	9 948	1 543	814	1 380	85 638
	June	26 898	22 205	19 417	5 083	10 103	1 624	823	1 386	87 539
	July	26 940	22 133	19 591	5 154	10 345	1 712	798	1 390	88 063
Trend
2006	May	24 103	20 032	17 587	5 140	9 082	1 578	754	1 189	79 465
	June	24 044	2 0079	17 628	5 120	9 253	1 570	754	1 187	79 635
	July	24 101	20 170	17 663	5 072	9 397	1 570	763	1 191	79 927
	August	24 268	20 235	17 710	5 009	9 503	1 573	774	1 199	80 271
	September	24 517	20 302	17 799	4 956	9 586	1 574	785	1 213	80 732
	October	24 834	20 439	17 985	4 947	9 660	1 578	795	1 232	81 470
	November	25 214	20 671	18 265	4 993	9 731	1 588	804	1 261	82 527
	December	25 590	20 948	18 598	5 066	9 796	1 594	812	1 295	83 699
2007	January	25 908	21 244	18 911	5 139	9 845	1 592	820	1 332	84 791
	February	26 146	21 523	19 143	5 186	9 892	1 586	827	1 362	85 665
	March	26 312	21 718	19 275	5 196	9 937	1 589	829	1 382	86 238
	April	26 435	21 822	19 363	5 175	9 985	1 599	828	1 393	86 600
	May	26 535	21 881	19 432	5 142	10 042	1 609	824	1 397	86 862
	June	26 639	21 943	19 488	5 112	10 107	1 625	817	1 398	87 129
	July	26 687	21 957	19 520	5 069	10 170	1 632	810	1 393	87 238
(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.