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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.

JULY 2006 KEY POINTS

Trend

Trend estimates continue in decline since March 2005. The July 2006 trend estimate for total sales of new motor vehicles (79,467) decreased 0.1% compared with the June 2006 estimate.

The only category to record a decrease (0.7%) from June 2006 to July 2006 was the 'other vehicles'. Over the same period, sports utility vehicles increased 0.3% with no change recorded for passenger vehicles.

For sports utility vehicles, trend estimates had been decreasing since October 2005 but showed a slight increase for July 2006. The downward trend of passenger vehicles has been arrested, with the last two months remaining stable.

Western Australia and Queensland were the only states or territories to show an increase in their trend estimate from June 2006 to July 2006, increasing 1.4% and 0.5% respectively.

Seasonally adjusted

The July 2006 seasonally adjusted estimate for total sales of new motor vehicles (80,771) increased 2.6% compared to the June 2006 estimate.

Five states and territories increased during this period. They were Western Australia, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and New South Wales with increases of 5.6%, 4.4%, 3.1%, 2.2% and 1.3% respectively. Tasmania had the largest decrease with 12.1%.

Over this period, sports utility vehicles were the only vehicle type to decrease (down 0.9%). Passenger vehicles increased 3.2% and other vehicles 4.0%.

	NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
Vehicle sales
Seasonally adjusted	24 042	20 335	18 285	5 170	9 531	1 502	734	1 172	80 771
Trend	23 685	19 872	17 948	5 158	9 314	1 580	736	1 174	79 467
Percentage change from previous month
Seasonally adjusted	1.3	4.4	3.1	2.2	5.6	-12.1	-3.8	-3.5	2.6
Trend	-0.8	-0.3	0.5	-0.1	1.4	-0.3	-1.1	-0.7	-0.1
Percentage change from previous year
Seasonally adjusted	-5.3	-4.7	0.9	-0.2	13.6	-8.1	-10.5	-9.1	-1.7
Trend	-6.9	-7.7	-2.0	-2.1	10.5	-6.7	-10.0	-6.5	-4.0

ISSUE	RELEASE DATE
August 2006	21 September 2006
September 2006	20 October 2006
October 2006	21 November 2006
November 2006	21 December 2006
December 2006	22 January 2007
January 2007	21 February 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	May	50 463	15 430	18 061	83 954	8.2	11.7	12.7	9.8
	June	60 781	18 317	23 047	102 145	20.4	18.7	27.6	21.7
	July	49 016	13 822	15 803	78 641	-19.4	-24.5	-31.4	-23.0
	August	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
	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 July	57 026 48 798	18 079 13 279	21 343 15 485	96 448 77 562	12.5 -14.4	22.0 -26.6	18.8 -27.4	15.6 -19.6
Seasonally adjusted
2005	May	50 881	14 780	16 690	82 351	-0.8	-2.7	-1.5	-1.3
	June	51 618	14 356	16 915	82 889	1.4	-2.9	1.3	0.7
	July	50 732	14 801	16 604	82 137	-1.7	3.1	-1.8	-0.9
	August	51 531	14 866	17 222	83 619	1.6	0.4	3.7	1.8
	September	51 609	15 826	17 192	84 627	0.2	6.5	-0.2	1.2
	October	48 517	14 121	16 279	78 917	-6.0	-10.8	-5.3	-6.7
	November	50 123	13 983	16 489	80 595	3.3	-1.0	1.3	2.1
	December	49 603	14 905	16 733	81 241	-1.0	6.6	1.5	0.8
2006	January	51 239	14 725	16 949	82 913	3.3	-1.2	1.3	2.1
	February	50 094	14 191	16 637	80 922	-2.2	-3.6	-1.8	-2.4
	March	48 703	13 992	16 604	79 299	-2.8	-1.4	-0.2	-2.0
	April	49 242	13 866	16 324	79 432	1.1	-0.9	-1.7	0.2
	May	49 643	13 935	16 368	79 946	0.8	0.5	0.3	0.6
	June	48 810	14 323	15 601	78 734	-1.7	2.8	-4.7	-1.5
	July	50 352	14 199	16 220	80 771	3.2	-0.9	4.0	2.6
Trend
2005	May	51 316	15 086	16 654	83 056	0.0	-1.5	1.0	-0.1
	June	51 248	14 879	16 804	82 931	-0.1	-1.4	0.9	-0.2
	July	51 086	14 757	16 899	82 742	-0.3	-0.8	0.6	-0.2
	August	50 863	14 733	16 902	82 498	-0.4	-0.2	0.0	-0.3
	September	50 584	14 733	16 831	82 148	-0.5	0.0	-0.4	-0.4
	October	50 312	14 699	16 757	81 768	-0.5	-0.2	-0.4	-0.5
	November	50 119	14 617	16 716	81 452	-0.4	-0.6	-0.2	-0.4
	December	49 993	14 489	16 699	81 181	-0.3	-0.9	-0.1	-0.3
2006	January	49 884	14 351	16 684	80 919	-0.2	-1.0	-0.1	-0.3
	February	49 758	14 242	16 634	80 634	-0.3	-0.8	-0.3	-0.4
	March	49 618	14 160	16 536	80 314	-0.3	-0.6	-0.6	-0.4
	April	49 449	14 084	16 378	79 911	-0.3	-0.5	-1.0	-0.5
	May	49 369	14 045	16 214	79 628	-0.2	-0.3	-1.0	-0.4
	June	49 394	14 043	16 077	79 514	0.1	-0.0	-0.8	-0.1
	July	49 416	14 087	15 964	79 467	0.0	0.3	-0.7	-0.1

		NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
		(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)
Original
2005	May	26 248	21 964	18 285	5 549	8 080	1 641	913	1 274	83 954
	June	30 745	25 493	24 656	6 586	10 013	2 052	1 185	1 415	102 145
	July	24 998	20 025	17 631	4 813	7 727	1 438	767	1 242	78 641
	August	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
	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 July	28 560 23 688	23 015 19 322	23 091 17 910	6 164 4 794	11 170 8 720	1 936 1 334	1 058 679	1 454 1 115	96 448 77 562
Seasonally adjusted
2005	May	25 460	21 608	18 128	5 388	8 090	1 651	792	1 234	82 351
	June	25 109	21 632	18 877	5 335	8 100	1 779	853	1 204	82 889
	July	25 382	21 331	18 116	5 178	8 387	1 634	820	1 289	82 137
	August	26 001	21 823	18 160	5 241	8 639	1 649	809	1 297	83 619
	September	26 060	21 736	18 328	5 309	9 049	1 997	843	1 305	84 627
	October	23 528	20 731	17 384	5 215	8 533	1 601	734	1 191	78 917
	November	24 534	21 285	17 245	5 280	8 845	1 481	717	1 208	80 595
	December	24 746	21 632	17 407	5 235	8 699	1 573	770	1 179	81 241
2006	January	25 781	21 220	18 118	5 307	8 809	1 602	819	1 257	82 913
	February	25 351	20 924	17 251	5 250	8 500	1 631	795	1 220	80 922
	March	24 617	19 947	17 648	4 842	8 661	1 606	768	1 210	79 299
	April	24 022	20 395	17 395	5 328	8 879	1 482	747	1 184	79 432
	May	23 957	20 128	17 857	5 291	9 221	1 598	738	1 156	79 946
	June	23 744	19 486	17 738	5 059	9 022	1 708	763	1 214	78 734
	July	24 042	20 335	18 285	5 170	9 531	1 502	734	1 172	80 771
Trend
2005	May	25 824	21 482	18 428	5 376	8 176	1 697	819	1 254	83 056
	June	25 625	21 510	18 424	5 315	8 287	1 696	822	1 252	82 931
	July	25 433	21 526	18 319	5 269	8 428	1 694	818	1 255	82 742
	August	25 252	21 521	18 145	5 251	8 584	1 682	806	1 257	82 498
	September	25 076	21 483	17 925	5 255	8 706	1 658	791	1 254	82 148
	October	24 955	21 423	17 717	5 259	8 766	1 629	776	1 243	81 768
	November	24 913	21 341	17 579	5 256	8 763	1 602	770	1 228	81 452
	December	24 926	21 221	17 506	5 240	8 720	1 582	769	1 217	81 181
2006	January	24 942	21 028	17 493	5 217	8 682	1 573	774	1 210	80 919
	February	24 890	20 775	17 520	5 192	8 697	1 576	775	1 209	80 634
	March	24 711	20 504	17 584	5 176	8 775	1 586	774	1 204	80 314
	April	24 403	20 242	17 655	5 166	8 894	1 590	764	1 197	79 911
	May	24 106	20 051	17 744	5 162	9 036	1 588	753	1 188	79 628
	June	23 882	19 925	17 853	5 162	9 182	1 584	744	1 182	79 514
	July	23 685	19 872	17 948	5 158	9 314	1 580	736	1 174	79 467
(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.