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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.

MAY 2007 KEY POINTS

Trend

The May 2007 trend estimate for new motor vehicle sales (86 633) increased 0.2% when compared with the April 2007 estimate. The trend estimate has now been increasing for 12 consecutive months. When compared to May 2006, the trend estimate increased by 9.0%.

When comparing May 2007 to April 2007, sports utility vehicles and other vehicles both increased 0.9%, while passenger vehicles decreased by 0.3%. Sports utility vehicles and other vehicles have been increasing for 11 months and 8 months respectively.

When comparing May 2007 to April 2007, all states and territories except South Australia and Tasmania showed increases in the trend estimate of total sales of new motor vehicles. The Australian Capital Territory, Queensland and the Northern Territory had the largest increases with 0.7%, 0.4% and 0.4% respectively. South Australia decreased by 0.5% and Tasmania by 0.2%.


Seasonally adjusted

The May 2007 seasonally adjusted estimate for total sales of new motor vehicles (85 410) decreased by 0.5% compared with April 2007. Sports utility vehicles decreased 3.4% and other vehicles 0.9%. Passenger vehicles increased by 0.6%.

When comparing May 2007 to April 2007, total sales decreased in all but two states or territories, with South Australia showing the largest decrease of 3.9%. Only Victoria and Queensland showed increases. Victoria by 1.4% and Queensland by 0.5%.

	NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
Vehicle sales
Seasonally adjusted	25 820	21 535	19 410	4 979	9 932	1 535	819	1 380	85 410
Trend	26 359	21 811	19 509	5 159	9 970	1 579	837	1 409	86 633
Percentage change from previous month
Seasonally adjusted	-1.8	1.4	0.5	-3.9	-0.6	-1.4	-3.0	-1.8	-0.5
Trend	0.1	0.2	0.4	-0.5	0.1	-0.2	0.4	0.7	0.2
Percentage change from previous year
Seasonally adjusted	7.5	6.8	9.1	-6.3	7.0	-5.0	10.2	19.7	6.6
Trend	9.3	8.8	10.9	0.5	9.9	-0.1	11.0	18.5	9.0

ISSUE	RELEASE DATE
June 2007 July 2007 August 2007	20 July 2007 21 August 2007 21 September 2007
September 2007	19 October 2007
October 2007	21 November 2007
November 2007	21 December 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
2006	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
	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
Seasonally adjusted
2006	March	48 320	13 898	16 414	78 632	-2.4	-0.9	-0.7	-1.8
	April	49 675	13 819	16 210	79 704	2.8	-0.6	-1.2	1.4
	May	49 646	13 992	16 447	80 085	-0.1	1.3	1.5	0.5
	June	48 831	14 410	15 567	78 808	-1.6	3.0	-5.4	-1.6
	July	50 857	14 110	16 108	81 075	4.1	-2.1	3.5	2.9
	August	50 297	13 160	15 973	79 430	-1.1	-6.7	-0.8	-2.0
	September	50 940	14 535	15 965	81 440	1.3	10.4	-0.1	2.5
	October	50 403	15 047	16 348	81 798	-1.1	3.5	2.4	0.4
	November	50 415	14 889	16 120	81 424	0.0	-1.1	-1.4	-0.5
	December	51 576	14 833	15 661	82 070	2.3	-0.4	-2.8	0.8
2007	January	54 212	15 321	16 987	86 520	5.1	3.3	8.5	5.4
	February	53 607	15 450	17 278	86 335	-1.1	0.8	1.7	-0.2
	March	53 875	15 608	17 551	87 034	0.5	1.0	1.6	0.8
	April	52 007	16 279	17 531	85 817	-3.5	4.3	-0.1	-1.4
	May	52 307	15 722	17 381	85 410	0.6	-3.4	-0.9	-0.5
Trend
2006	March	49 324	14 096	16 447	79 867	-0.3	-0.6	-0.8	-0.4
	April	49 299	13 998	16 278	79 575	-0.1	-0.7	-1.0	-0.4
	May	49 439	13 917	16 116	79 472	0.3	-0.6	-1.0	-0.1
	June	49 722	13 922	16 030	79 674	0.6	0.0	-0.5	0.3
	July	49 988	14 010	15 985	79 983	0.5	0.6	-0.3	0.4
	August	50 218	14 147	15 960	80 325	0.5	1.0	-0.2	0.4
	September	50 457	14 337	15 963	80 757	0.5	1.3	0.0	0.5
	October	50 865	14 565	16 029	81 459	0.8	1.6	0.4	0.9
	November	51 478	14 822	16 187	82 487	1.2	1.8	1.0	1.3
	December	52 139	15 081	16 429	83 649	1.3	1.7	1.5	1.4
2007	January	52 716	15 304	16 726	84 746	1.1	1.5	1.8	1.3
	February	53 084	15 485	17 035	85 604	0.7	1.2	1.8	1.0
	March	53 202	15 670	17 301	86 173	0.2	1.2	1.6	0.7
	April	53 150	15 835	17 508	86 493	-0.1	1.1	1.2	0.4
	May	52 979	15 981	17 673	86 633	-0.3	0.9	0.9	0.2

		NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
		(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)
Original
2006	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	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
Seasonally adjusted
2006	March	24 312	19 744	17 400	4 843	8 780	1 582	773	1 198	78 632
	April	24 166	20 614	17 344	5 287	8 846	1 509	744	1 194	79 704
	May	24 022	20 155	17 796	5 316	9 284	1 616	743	1 153	80 085
	June	24 075	19 413	17 515	5 026	9 084	1 702	758	1 235	78 808
	July	24 209	20 486	18 352	5 107	9 492	1 518	740	1 171	81 075
	August	23 980	20 336	17 220	4 946	9 534	1 417	800	1 197	79 430
	September	24 745	20 783	17 536	5 037	9 652	1 677	765	1 245	81 440
	October	25 149	20 490	17 888	4 910	9 648	1 671	835	1 207	81 798
	November	24 808	19 948	18 445	4 953	9 598	1 634	767	1 271	81 424
	December	25 040	20 371	18 570	4 840	9 791	1 405	802	1 251	82 070
2007	January	26 663	21 736	19 034	5 409	9 943	1 562	839	1 334	86 520
	February	25 910	22 157	19 090	5 206	10 034	1 714	829	1 395	86 335
	March	26 686	21 922	19 569	5 247	9 792	1 602	829	1 387	87 034
	April	26 297	21 230	19 311	5 182	9 991	1 557	844	1 405	85 817
	May	25 820	21 535	19 410	4 979	9 932	1 535	819	1 380	85 410
Trend
2006	March	24 502	20 382	17 481	5 158	8 794	1 586	768	1 196	79 867
	April	24 291	20 140	17 544	5 143	8 916	1 589	760	1 192	79 575
	May	24 108	20 046	17 588	5 131	9 076	1 580	754	1 189	79 472
	June	24 066	20 102	17 622	5 114	9 250	1 576	754	1 190	79 674
	July	24 131	20 194	17 652	5 071	9 398	1 581	761	1 195	79 983
	August	24 297	20 250	17 698	5 012	9 508	1 584	772	1 204	80 325
	September	24 528	20 305	17 790	4 962	9 592	1 581	784	1 215	80 757
	October	24 824	20 431	17 979	4 953	9 666	1 579	794	1 233	81 459
	November	25 188	20 655	18 263	4 999	9 737	1 583	803	1 259	82 487
	December	25 559	20 933	18 598	5 068	9 800	1 587	812	1 292	83 649
2007	January	25 876	21 237	18 909	5 135	9 855	1 588	820	1 326	84 746
	February	26 106	21 506	19 143	5 178	9 903	1 585	826	1 357	85 604
	March	26 255	21 682	19 310	5 193	9 936	1 585	831	1 381	86 173
	April	26 329	21 772	19 436	5 184	9 957	1 582	834	1 399	86 493
	May	26 359	21 811	19 509	5 159	9 970	1 579	837	1 409	86 633
(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.