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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.

NOVEMBER 2006 KEY POINTS

Trend

The November 2006 trend estimate (81, 049) increased 0.2% compared with the October 2006 estimate.

Passenger vehicle sales were stable in November compared with October, however all other vehicle types increased. The largest increase was recorded by sports utility vehicles at 1.3%.

All states and territories showed either a stable or positive monthly percentage change in their trend estimates, except for South Australia, from October 2006 to November 2006.

Seasonally adjusted

The November 2006 seasonally adjusted estimate for total sales of new motor vehicles (80,621) decreased 0.9% from the October 2006 estimate.

The largest decreases were recorded in the Northern Territory (9.8%), Victoria (2.6%) and New South Wales (2.1%).

Queensland, South Australia and the ACT were the only states and territories to record increases in monthly seasonally adjusted estimates, with the ACT recording the largest increase (4.2%).

Over this period all vehicle types decreased, with the largest recorded in the other vehicles category (1.7%).

	NSW	VIC	QLD	SA	WA	TAS.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	AUST.
Vehicle sales
Seasonally adjusted	24,472	19,810	18,229	4,924	9,535	1,653	752	1,246	80,621
Trend	24,727	20,266	17,867	4,908	9,628	1,634	788	1,231	81,049
Percentage change from previous month
Seasonally adjusted	-2.1	-2.6	2.4	0.3	-0.9	-0.2	-9.8	4.2	-0.9
Trend	0.5	-0.0	0.3	-0.5	0.2	0.7	0.4	0.7	0.2
Percentage change from previous year
Seasonally adjusted	-0.5	-7.9	5.2	-7.1	7.7	14.3	4.2	4.4	-0.4
Trend	-0.7	-5.0	1.2	-6.9	10.1	2.5	2.5	0.7	-0.6

ISSUE	RELEASE DATE
December 2006	22 January 2006
January 2006 February 2007	21 February 2007 21 March 2007
March 2007	20 April 2007
April 2007	22 May 2007
May 2007	20 June 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	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
	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 November	50 532 51 850	13 921 15 193	15 477 16 254	79 930 83 297	-1.7 2.6	5.4 9.1	0.5 5.0	-0.1 4.2
Seasonally adjusted
2005	September	51 123	15 712	17 232	84 067	-0.2	4.3	-0.1	0.7
	October	49 015	13 923	16 159	79 097	-4.1	-11.4	-6.2	-5.9
	November	50 145	14 176	16 609	80 930	2.3	1.8	2.8	2.3
	December	49 774	14 956	16 783	81 513	-0.7	5.5	1.0	0.7
2006	January	51 327	14 579	16 929	82 835	3.1	-2.5	0.9	1.6
	February	49 972	14 092	16 649	80 713	-2.6	-3.3	-1.7	-2.6
	March	48 615	13 975	16 568	79 158	-2.7	-0.8	-0.5	-1.9
	April	49 392	13 909	16 294	79 595	1.6	-0.5	-1.7	0.6
	May	49 533	13 978	16 337	79 848	0.3	0.5	0.3	0.3
	June	48 857	14 309	15 605	78 771	-1.4	2.4	-4.5	-1.3
	July	50 659	14 184	16 162	81 005	3.7	-0.9	3.6	2.8
	August	50 172	13 038	15 934	79 144	-1.0	-8.1	-1.4	-2.3
	September	50 875	14 488	15 941	81 304	1.4	11.1	0.0	2.7
	October	50 054	15 030	16 261	81 345	-1.6	3.7	2.0	0.1
	November	49 844	14 795	15 982	80 621	-0.4	-1.6	-1.7	-0.9
Trend
2005	September	50 515	14 743	16 837	82 095	-0.5	-0.1	-0.4	-0.4
	October	50 309	14 694	16 771	81 774	-0.4	-0.3	-0.4	-0.4
	November	50 175	14 595	16 736	81 506	-0.3	-0.7	-0.2	-0.3
	December	50 081	14 458	16 720	81 259	-0.2	-0.9	-0.1	-0.3
2006	January	49 950	14 318	16 696	80 964	-0.3	-1.0	-0.1	-0.4
	February	49 762	14 229	16 635	80 626	-0.4	-0.6	-0.4	-0.4
	March	49 552	14 149	16 524	80 225	-0.4	-0.6	-0.7	-0.5
	April	49 404	14 040	16 350	79 794	-0.3	-0.8	-1.1	-0.5
	May	49 421	13 934	16 163	79 518	0.0	-0.8	-1.1	-0.3
	June	49 641	13 921	16 043	79 605	0.4	-0.1	-0.7	0.1
	July	49 945	13 999	15 992	79 936	0.6	0.6	-0.3	0.4
	August	50 182	14 128	15 989	80 299	0.5	0.9	-0.0	0.5
	September	50 295	14 300	16 006	80 601	0.2	1.2	0.1	0.4
	October	50 318	14 500	16 032	80 850	0.0	1.4	0.2	0.3
	November	50 303	14 690	16 056	81 049	-0.0	1.3	0.1	0.2

		NSW	VIC.	QLD	SA	WA	TAS.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	AUST.
		(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)
Original
2005	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
	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 November	24 379 25 418	20 785 20 739	16 625 18 076	4 781 5 116	9 591 9 972	1 797 1 973	762 733	1 210 1 270	79 930 83 297
Seasonally adjusted
2005	September	25 864	21 474	18 395	5315	8821	2054	848	1296	84 067
	October	23 789	20 658	17 458	5214	8495	1568	731	1184	79 097
	November	24 595	21 503	17 320	5300	8850	1446	722	1194	80 930
	December	24 809	21 663	17 498	5250	8778	1572	767	1176	81 513
2006	January	25 716	21 209	18 061	5334	8845	1588	812	1270	82 835
	February	25 096	20 942	17 245	5252	8547	1627	791	1213	80 713
	March	24 457	19 962	17 589	4832	8740	1601	771	1206	79 158
	April	24 173	20 456	17 374	5302	8861	1488	748	1193	79 595
	May	23 899	20 178	17 786	5254	9251	1591	741	1148	79 848
	June	23 959	19 434	17 519	5047	9081	1738	762	1231	78 771
	July	24 223	20 431	18 269	5140	9516	1513	741	1172	81 005
	August	23 882	20 181	17 276	4937	9451	1433	795	1189	79 144
	September	24 717	20 763	17 491	5018	9622	1684	764	1245	81 304
	October	24 999	20 329	17 804	4908	9619	1656	834	1196	81 345
	November	24 472	19 810	18 229	4924	9535	1653	752	1246	80 621
Trend
2005	September	25 066	21 427	17 980	5263	8642	1668	794	1255	82 095
	October	24 953	21 391	17 792	5274	8718	1629	778	1239	81 774
	November	24 913	21 339	17 650	5273	8745	1594	769	1223	81 506
	December	24 912	21 249	17 555	5257	8738	1568	768	1212	81 259
2006	January	24 893	21 070	17 508	5227	8726	1560	772	1208	80 964
	February	24 816	20 808	17 509	5197	8745	1570	773	1208	80 626
	March	24 629	20 499	17 556	5174	8808	1584	771	1204	80 255
	April	24 348	20 220	17 602	5155	8919	1590	762	1198	79 794
	May	24 097	20 070	17 622	5135	9067	1582	755	1190	79 518
	June	24 021	20 079	17 642	5111	9233	1576	755	1188	79 605
	July	24 115	20 164	17 673	5076	9374	1578	762	1194	79 936
	August	24 285	20 243	17 700	5029	9477	1589	773	1203	80 299
	September	24 451	20 282	17 741	4980	9551	1604	780	1212	80 601
	October	24 600	20 276	17 807	4934	9604	1622	785	1222	80 850
	November	24 727	20 266	17 867	4908	9628	1634	788	1231	81 049
(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.