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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.

JUNE 2006 KEY POINTS

Trend

Trend estimates for total sales of new motor vehicles have been in decline since March 2005. The June 2006 trend estimate (78,788) decreased 0.6% compared with the May 2006 estimate.

The 'other vehicle' category recorded the largest decrease from May 2006 to June 2006, falling 1.2%. Over the same period, passenger vehicles decreased 0.4% and sports utility vehicles decreased 0.5%.

Trend estimates for passenger vehicles have been decreasing since June 2005, sports utility vehicles since March 2005 and other vehicles since September 2005.

Western Australia and Tasmania were the only states or territories to show an increase in their trend estimate from May 2006 to June 2006, increasing 0.9% and 0.7% respectively.

Seasonally adjusted

The June 2006 seasonally adjusted estimate for total sales of new motor vehicles (78,510) decreased 1.7% compared with the May 2006 estimate.

Increases were shown in three states and territories. These were Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory with increases of 7.5%, 4.6% and 3.7% respectively. The largest decrease occurred in South Australia with a 4.5% drop.

Over this period, sports utility vehicles were the only vehicle type to increase (up 3.0%). Passenger vehicles fell 1.8% and other vehicles 5.1%.

	NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
Vehicle sales
Seasonally adjusted	23 650	19 554	17 587	5 061	8 961	1 724	766	1 207	78 510
Trend	23 763	19 693	17 610	5 154	9 007	1 629	749	1 183	78 788
Percentage change from previous month
Seasonally adjusted	-1.2	-2.6	-1.4	-4.5	-2.6	7.5	3.7	4.6	-1.7
Trend	-1.3	-1.1	-0.0	-0.1	0.9	0.7	-1.2	-0.4	-0.6
Percentage change from previous year
Seasonally adjusted	-5.8	-9.6	-6.2	-5.0	10.8	-3.4	-10.3	0.8	-5.1
Trend	-7.2	-8.5	-4.3	-3.0	8.7	-3.8	-8.9	-5.4	-5.0

ISSUE	RELEASE DATE
July 2006	22 August 2006
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

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	April	46 651	13 812	16 024	76 487	-12.4	-20.9	0.8	-11.7
	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	57 026	18 079	21 343	96 448	12.5	22.0	18.8	15.6
Seasonally adjusted
2005	April	51 306	15 240	16 911	83 457	2.5	-4.0	8.9	2.5
	May	50 745	14 775	16 618	82 138	-1.1	-3.1	-1.7	-1.6
	June	51 427	14 354	16 950	82 731	1.3	-2.8	2.0	0.7
	July	51 010	14 767	16 574	82 351	-0.8	2.9	-2.2	-0.5
	August	51 623	14 848	17 255	83 726	1.2	0.5	4.1	1.7
	September	51 629	15 821	17 163	84 613	0.0	6.6	-0.5	1.1
	October	48 618	14 146	16 336	79 100	-5.8	-10.6	-4.8	-6.5
	November	50 062	13 939	16 494	80 495	3.0	-1.5	1.0	1.8
	December	49 596	14 926	16 743	81 265	-0.9	7.1	1.5	1.0
2006	January	51 287	14 712	16 938	82 937	3.4	-1.4	1.2	2.1
	February	50 109	14 199	16 648	80 956	-2.3	-3.5	-1.7	-2.4
	March	48 601	14 011	16 589	79 201	-3.0	-1.3	-0.4	-2.2
	April	49 156	13 916	16 299	79 371	1.1	-0.7	-1.7	0.2
	May	49 548	13 915	16 373	79 836	0.8	-0.0	0.5	0.6
	June	48 638	14 326	15 546	78 510	-1.8	3.0	-5.1	-1.7
Trend
2005	April	51 240	15 330	16 470	83 040	0.1	-1.4	0.7	-0.1
	May	51 261	15 089	16 633	82 983	0.0	-1.6	1.0	-0.1
	June	51 233	14 873	16 787	82 893	-0.1	-1.4	0.9	-0.1
	July	51 117	14 747	16 891	82 755	-0.2	-0.8	0.6	-0.2
	August	50 928	14 722	16 908	82 558	-0.4	-0.2	0.1	-0.2
	September	50 654	14 721	16 842	82 217	-0.5	-0.0	-0.4	-0.4
	October	50 370	14 690	16 772	81 832	-0.6	-0.2	-0.4	-0.5
	November	50 152	14 611	16 731	81 494	-0.4	-0.5	-0.2	-0.4
	December	50 003	14 489	16 711	81 203	-0.3	-0.8	-0.1	-0.4
2006	January	49 901	14 363	16 689	80 953	-0.2	-0.9	-0.1	-0.3
	February	49 783	14 264	16 640	80 687	-0.2	-0.7	-0.3	-0.3
	March	49 585	14 178	16 529	80 292	-0.4	-0.6	-0.7	-0.5
	April	49 318	14 093	16 359	79 770	-0.5	-0.6	-1.0	-0.7
	May	49 052	14 030	16 165	79 247	-0.5	-0.4	-1.2	-0.7
	June	48 855	13 964	15 969	78 788	-0.4	-0.5	-1.2	-0.6

		NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
		(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)
Original
2005	April	24 354	19 557	16 831	5 048	7 339	1 375	859	1 124	76 487
	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	28 560	23 015	23 091	6 164	11 170	1 936	1 058	1 454	96 448
Seasonally adjusted
2005	April	26 146	21 296	18 739	5 423	8 259	1 647	786	1 161	83 457
	May	25 399	21 583	18 043	5 389	8 040	1 661	790	1 233	82 138
	June	25 100	21 633	18 742	5 329	8 090	1 785	854	1 198	82 731
	July	25 412	21 398	18 185	5 178	8 455	1 613	817	1 293	82 351
	August	26 065	21 810	18 209	5 236	8 672	1 624	809	1 301	83 726
	September	26 021	21 740	18 336	5 322	9 035	2 012	843	1 304	84 613
	October	23 571	20 732	17 473	5 211	8 582	1 606	735	1 190	79 100
	November	24 508	21 264	17 214	5 290	8 816	1 474	719	1 210	80 495
	December	24 721	21 631	17 438	5 241	8 707	1 580	770	1 177	81 265
2006	January	25 755	21 318	18 076	5 303	8 805	1 600	817	1 263	82 937
	February	25 377	20 902	17 281	5 244	8 501	1 635	795	1 221	80 956
	March	24 609	19 857	17 649	4 846	8 646	1 615	768	1 211	79 201
	April	24 036	20 370	17 379	5 325	8 846	1 485	748	1 182	79 371
	May	23 946	20 067	17 828	5 297	9 201	1 604	739	1 154	79 836
	June	23 650	19 554	17 587	5 061	8 961	1 724	766	1 207	78 510
Trend
2005	April	26 014	21 439	18 306	5 423	8 083	1 706	807	1 262	83 040
	May	25 813	21 475	18 387	5 375	8 163	1 698	819	1 253	82 983
	June	25 620	21 514	18 394	5 314	8 285	1 693	822	1 251	82 893
	July	25 438	21 535	18 312	5 268	8 441	1 688	818	1 255	82 755
	August	25 265	21 532	18 161	5 252	8 605	1 677	807	1 259	82 558
	September	25 087	21 492	17 954	5 257	8 726	1 653	792	1 256	82 217
	October	24 958	21 432	17 747	5 262	8 783	1 628	778	1 244	81 832
	November	24 909	21 351	17 603	5 258	8 770	1 603	771	1 229	81 494
	December	24 918	21 226	17 522	5 243	8 721	1 584	771	1 218	81 203
2006	January	24 937	21 035	17 515	5 217	8 689	1 575	774	1 211	80 953
	February	24 894	20 784	17 546	5 193	8 706	1 578	776	1 210	80 687
	March	24 707	20 491	17 583	5 175	8 769	1 589	773	1 205	80 292
	April	24 398	20 192	17 600	5 166	8 847	1 604	766	1 197	79 770
	May	24 066	19 921	17 613	5 158	8 925	1 618	758	1 188	79 247
	June	23 763	19 693	17 610	5 154	9 007	1 629	749	1 183	78 788
(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.