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JULY KEY FIGURES

	NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aus
Vehicle sales (no.)
Trend	25 947	23 341	18 313	5 461	9 899	1 605	898	1 308	86 772
Seasonally Adjusted	25 546	22 762	17 848	5 448	9 931	1 634	918	1 324	85 411
Change from previous month (%)
Trend	-0.8	-0.3	-1.1	-0.5	-1.0	-1.5	-1.0	-1.0	-0.7
Seasonally Adjusted	-4.3	-5.0	-4.4	-1.3	1.3	4.7	6.4	1.1	-3.4
Change from previous year (%)
Trend	-3.0	5.3	-5.1	7.2	-2.9	-0.2	9.4	-6.4	-0.6
Seasonally Adjusted	-6.7	1.4	-9.6	4.7	-3.8	-7.2	15.2	-4.8	-4.1
(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.

New Motor Vehicle Sales, Total vehicles - Short term

• Trend - The July 2008 trend estimate for new motor vehicle sales (86 772) decreased 0.7% when compared with June 2008. The trend estimate has continued to decrease since January 2008. When compared with July 2007 the trend estimate decreased by 0.6%.
• Seasonally adjusted - The July 2008 estimate for total sales of new motor vehicles (85 411) decreased by 3.4% compared with June 2008.

• Trend - When comparing July 2008 with June 2008, trend estimates decreased for sports utility vehicles, 2.2%, passenger vehicles, 0.2%, and other vehicles, 1.0%. When compared with the same period 12 months ago, passenger vehicles fell by 2.1%, sports utility vehicles by 1.1% and other vehicles rose by 4.2%.
• Seasonally adjusted - When comparing July 2008 with June 2008, sports utility vehicles and passenger vehicles decreased by 11.9% and 2.1% respectively, while other vehicles increased by 1.2%.

• Trend - When comparing July 2008 with June 2008, all of the states and territories showed decreases in the trend estimate of total sales of new motor vehicles. The largest decreases were in Tasmania, 1.5%, and Queensland, 1.1%.
• Seasonally adjusted - When comparing July 2008 to June 2008, four of the states showed decreases. The largest decreases were in Victoria, 5.0%, Queensland, 4.4%, and New South Wales, 4.3%. The Northern Territory and Tasmania showed the greatest increases of 6.4% and 4.7% respectively.

New Motor Vehicle Sales, Total vehicles - Long term

New Motor Vehicle Sales, Total vehicles - Short term

New motor vehicle sales by type of vehicle
		Count Passenger vehicles	Count Sports utility vehicles	Count Other vehicles	Count Total vehicles	Change Passenger vehicles	Change Sports utility vehicles	Change Other vehicles	Change Total vehicles
		no.	no.	no.	no.	%	%	%	%
Trend
2007
	May	53 357	16 063	17 498	86 918	-0.2	1.5	0.7	0.3
	June	53 106	16 350	17 620	87 076	-0.5	1.8	0.7	0.2
	July	52 830	16 676	17 819	87 325	-0.5	2.0	1.1	0.3
	August	52 682	17 027	18 108	87 817	-0.3	2.1	1.6	0.6
	September	52 680	17 379	18 433	88 492	-	2.1	1.8	0.8
	October	52 819	17 678	18 710	89 207	0.3	1.7	1.5	0.8
	November	53 017	17 896	18 939	89 852	0.4	1.2	1.2	0.7
	December	53 183	17 988	19 126	90 297	0.3	0.5	1.0	0.5
2008
	January	53 191	18 015	19 248	90 454	-	0.2	0.6	0.2
	February	52 947	17 957	19 272	90 176	-0.5	-0.3	0.1	-0.3
	March	52 539	17 800	19 212	89 551	-0.8	-0.9	-0.3	-0.7
	April	52 181	17 544	19 099	88 824	-0.7	-1.4	-0.6	-0.8
	May	51 949	17 218	18 942	88 109	-0.4	-1.9	-0.8	-0.8
	June	51 784	16 863	18 768	87 415	-0.3	-2.1	-0.9	-0.8
	July	51 699	16 497	18 576	86 772	-0.2	-2.2	-1.0	-0.7
Seasonally Adjusted
2007
	May	52 569	16 001	17 493	86 063	0.9	-2.1	1.6	0.4
	June	53 899	15 875	17 530	87 304	2.5	-0.8	0.2	1.4
	July	54 593	16 464	17 991	89 048	1.3	3.7	2.6	2.0
	August	51 662	17 221	17 672	86 555	-5.4	4.6	-1.8	-2.8
	September	51 824	17 513	18 487	87 824	0.3	1.7	4.6	1.5
	October	52 077	18 081	18 703	88 861	0.5	3.2	1.2	1.2
	November	53 055	17 593	19 539	90 187	1.9	-2.7	4.5	1.5
	December	54 397	17 613	18 883	90 893	2.5	0.1	-3.4	0.8
2008
	January	54 345	18 373	19 130	91 848	-0.1	4.3	1.3	1.1
	February	51 984	18 023	18 884	88 891	-4.3	-1.9	-1.3	-3.2
	March	52 127	17 729	19 345	89 201	0.3	-1.6	2.4	0.3
	April	51 669	17 819	20 070	89 558	-0.9	0.5	3.7	0.4
	May	52 319	16 824	18 546	87 689	1.3	-5.6	-7.6	-2.1
	June	52 443	17 649	18 310	88 402	0.2	4.9	-1.3	0.8
	July	51 328	15 547	18 536	85 411	-2.1	-11.9	1.2	-3.4
Original
2007
	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
	August	52 748	17 440	18 018	88 206	-1.6	13.3	4.1	2.2
	September	50 197	15 874	17 418	83 489	-4.8	-9.0	-3.3	-5.3
	October	53 336	17 748	18 205	89 289	6.3	11.8	4.5	6.9
	November	54 195	17 702	20 184	92 081	1.6	-0.3	10.9	3.1
	December	51 722	17 114	17 414	86 250	-4.6	-3.3	-13.7	-6.3
2008
	January	49 295	17 646	15 329	82 270	-4.7	3.1	-12.0	-4.6
	February	53 030	18 277	18 591	89 898	7.6	3.6	21.3	9.3
	March	53 122	18 425	19 738	91 285	0.2	0.8	6.2	1.5
	April	47 639	16 654	19 768	84 061	-10.3	-9.6	0.2	-7.9
	May	51 416	17 279	19 945	88 640	7.9	3.8	0.9	5.4
	June	61 524	21 388	23 629	106 541	19.7	23.8	18.5	20.2
	July	51 068	14 842	18 066	83 976	-17.0	-30.6	-23.5	-21.2
- 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)	Aus
		no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.
Trend
2007
	May	26 608	21 909	19 376	5 119	10 071	1 607	825	1 403	86 918
	June	26 686	22 015	19 310	5 098	10 138	1 606	822	1 401	87 076
	July	26 750	22 166	19 296	5 092	10 194	1 609	821	1 397	87 325
	August	26 855	22 351	19 413	5 120	10 236	1 623	823	1 396	87 817
	September	27 007	22 542	19 635	5 187	10 258	1 638	826	1 399	88 492
	October	27 200	22 726	19 857	5 281	10 256	1 651	834	1 402	89 207
	November	27 360	22 904	20 029	5 377	10 258	1 667	850	1 407	89 852
	December	27 420	23 076	20 097	5 455	10 278	1 688	873	1 410	90 297
2008
	January	27 367	23 251	20 012	5 509	10 303	1 707	898	1 407	90 454
	February	27 173	23 385	19 767	5 526	10 305	1 708	916	1 396	90 176
	March	26 884	23 456	19 435	5 517	10 262	1 694	925	1 378	89 551
	April	26 601	23 470	19 112	5 503	10 183	1 674	924	1 357	88 824
	May	26 357	23 451	18 813	5 493	10 088	1 652	917	1 338	88 109
	June	26 147	23 411	18 518	5 487	9 994	1 630	907	1 321	87 415
	July	25 947	23 341	18 313	5 461	9 899	1 605	898	1 308	86 772
Seasonally Adjusted
2007
	May	26 241	21 494	19 661	4 957	9 949	1 557	811	1 393	86 063
	June	26 655	22 139	19 409	5 109	10 137	1 618	836	1 401	87 304
	July	27 381	22 449	19 741	5 201	10 327	1 761	797	1 391	89 048
	August	26 635	22 301	18 588	5 034	10 272	1 504	830	1 391	86 555
	September	26 423	22 703	19 412	5 118	10 312	1 633	821	1 402	87 824
	October	27 261	22 543	19 706	5 334	10 159	1 600	853	1 405	88 861
	November	27 582	22 614	20 444	5 369	10 167	1 784	843	1 384	90 187
	December	27 344	23 091	21 096	5 263	10 188	1 628	853	1 430	90 893
2008
	January	27 967	23 696	19 569	5 947	10 635	1 726	880	1 428	91 848
	February	26 952	23 417	19 155	5 415	10 028	1 675	899	1 350	88 891
	March	26 906	23 287	19 149	5 394	10 317	1 689	1 022	1 437	89 201
	April	26 121	23 185	20 253	5 457	10 458	1 809	923	1 352	89 558
	May	26 413	23 670	18 268	5 574	9 991	1 579	888	1 306	87 689
	June	26 703	23 961	18 678	5 520	9 806	1 561	863	1 310	88 402
	July	25 546	22 762	17 848	5 448	9 931	1 634	918	1 324	85 411
Original
2007
	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
	August	26 549	22 958	19 145	5 128	10 730	1 481	791	1 424	88 206
	September	24 946	21 788	18 025	4 738	10 244	1 684	724	1 340	83 489
	October	27 556	23 097	18 933	5 329	10 460	1 708	781	1 425	89 289
	November	27 835	23 644	20 189	5 556	10 435	2 225	803	1 394	92 081
	December	25 290	22 432	19 557	5 078	9 809	2 010	719	1 355	86 250
2008
	January	25 810	21 044	16 972	5 256	9 650	1 490	722	1 326	82 270
	February	27 855	23 803	18 914	5 607	9 952	1 484	876	1 407	89 898
	March	28 128	23 153	20 231	5 334	10 483	1 470	1 108	1 378	91 285
	April	24 489	21 814	19 109	5 293	9 475	1 496	1 049	1 336	84 061
	May	26 334	23 865	18 672	5 803	10 067	1 585	1 025	1 289	88 640
	June	32 027	27 638	24 335	6 568	11 564	1 778	1 128	1 503	106 541
	July	25 216	22 272	17 963	5 237	9 580	1 510	900	1 298	83 976
(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.