CESSATION OF NEW MOTOR VEHICLE SALES COLLECTION

As foreshadowed in the ABS 2017-2018 Forward Work Program, publication of Sales of New Motor Vehicles, Australia (cat. no. 9314.0) will cease following release of the December 2017 issue on 16 January 2018. Data on sales of new motor vehicles (in original terms) is available from the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries website: https://www.fcai.com.au/sales.

NOVEMBER KEY FIGURES

		NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
Vehicle sales
	Trend (no.)	32 805	27 913	19 259	5 965	8 639	1 746	853	1 510	98 690
	Seasonally Adjusted (no.)	32 682	28 033	19 530	5 979	8 680	1 754	855	1 542	99 055
Change from previous month
	Trend (%)	-0.4	-0.5	-0.7	-0.6	1.0	1.6	-2.5	-0.7	-0.3
	Seasonally Adjusted (%)	-	-0.3	0.5	-0.8	0.7	2.9	-0.3	2.3	0.1
Change from previous year
	Trend (%)	-0.8	1.0	2.0	0.1	8.9	2.5	-0.8	-3.6	1.1
	Seasonally Adjusted (%)	1.2	0.9	2.2	-1.2	13.1	5.0	-0.8	-0.8	2.1
- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells)
(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.

NOVEMBER KEY POINTS


NOVEMBER TREND ESTIMATES KEY POINTS

• The November 2017 trend estimate (98,690) decreased by 0.3% when compared with October 2017.
• When comparing national trend estimates for November 2017 with October 2017, sales for Other vehicles increased by 0.4%. By contrast, Passenger vehicles and Sports utility vehicles decreased by 0.8% and 0.4% respectively.
• The largest upward movement across all states and territories, on a trend basis, was in Tasmania (1.6%), continuing an upward trend that began in May 2017.
• The largest downward movement across all states and territories, on a trend basis, was in the Northern Territory (-2.5%).

NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE	Release Date
December 2017 (Final Issue)	16 January 2018

ABOUT THIS ISSUE

This issue presents details for the Sales of New Motor Vehicles for November 2017.


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SUMMARY COMMENTARY

New motor vehicle sales by type of vehicle by month
		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
2016
	September	39 984	37 466	20 792	98 242	-0.3	0.6	0.2	0.1
	October	39 824	37 489	20 773	98 086	-0.4	0.1	-0.1	-0.2
	November	39 533	37 334	20 749	97 616	-0.7	-0.4	-0.1	-0.5
	December	39 132	37 097	20 827	97 056	-1.0	-0.6	0.4	-0.6
2017
	January	38 744	36 971	21 059	96 773	-1.0	-0.3	1.1	-0.3
	February	38 439	37 123	21 390	96 953	-0.8	0.4	1.6	0.2
	March	38 293	37 557	21 765	97 615	-0.4	1.2	1.8	0.7
	April	38 247	38 133	22 165	98 545	-0.1	1.5	1.8	1.0
	May	38 213	38 649	22 540	99 401	-0.1	1.4	1.7	0.9
	June	38 118	38 975	22 839	99 932	-0.2	0.8	1.3	0.5
	July	37 865	39 120	23 031	100 016	-0.7	0.4	0.8	0.1
	August	37 450	39 105	23 169	99 725	-1.1	-	0.6	-0.3
	September	37 042	39 000	23 310	99 352	-1.1	-0.3	0.6	-0.4
	October	36 712	38 902	23 420	99 034	-0.9	-0.3	0.5	-0.3
	November	36 433	38 733	23 524	98 690	-0.8	-0.4	0.4	-0.3
Seasonally Adjusted
2016
	September	40 334	38 279	20 881	99 494	1.2	2.1	1.7	1.7
	October	39 193	38 264	20 442	97 899	-2.8	-	-2.1	-1.6
	November	39 090	36 838	21 075	97 003	-0.3	-3.7	3.1	-0.9
	December	40 606	35 670	21 268	97 544	3.9	-3.2	0.9	0.6
2017
	January	39 199	38 004	20 526	97 729	-3.5	6.5	-3.5	0.2
	February	37 622	36 844	20 676	95 143	-4.0	-3.1	0.7	-2.6
	March	37 008	37 940	21 967	96 915	-1.6	3.0	6.2	1.9
	April	38 017	36 981	22 979	97 978	2.7	-2.5	4.6	1.1
	May	39 414	38 531	22 604	100 549	3.7	4.2	-1.6	2.6
	June	39 014	40 391	22 627	102 032	-1.0	4.8	0.1	1.5
	July	37 749	39 445	22 265	99 459	-3.2	-2.3	-1.6	-2.5
	August	36 519	38 742	23 901	99 162	-3.3	-1.8	7.3	-0.3
	September	36 768	38 621	23 563	98 953	0.7	-0.3	-1.4	-0.2
	October	37 169	38 559	23 191	98 920	1.1	-0.2	-1.6	-
	November	36 565	39 106	23 384	99 055	-1.6	1.4	0.8	0.1
Original
2016
	September	42 076	39 497	21 123	102 696	8.0	8.5	7.9	8.2
	October	37 817	36 442	19 098	93 357	-10.1	-7.7	-9.6	-9.1
	November	39 852	37 536	21 549	98 937	5.4	3.0	12.8	6.0
	December	42 385	34 936	21 442	98 763	6.4	-6.9	-0.5	-0.2
2017
	January	34 920	34 127	15 863	84 910	-17.6	-2.3	-26.0	-14.0
	February	34 740	35 497	18 788	89 025	-0.5	4.0	18.4	4.8
	March	38 972	41 484	24 954	105 410	12.2	16.9	32.8	18.4
	April	32 147	31 368	19 620	83 135	-17.5	-24.4	-21.4	-21.1
	May	38 842	39 629	24 430	102 901	20.8	26.3	24.5	23.8
	June	50 646	51 393	32 132	134 171	30.4	29.7	31.5	30.4
	July	35 792	36 979	19 983	92 754	-29.3	-28.0	-37.8	-30.9
	August	35 733	38 118	22 811	96 662	-0.2	3.1	14.2	4.2
	September	38 147	39 003	23 050	100 200	6.8	2.3	1.0	3.7
	October	36 396	36 871	22 496	95 763	-4.6	-5.5	-2.4	-4.4
	November	36 929	40 748	23 688	101 365	1.5	10.5	5.3	5.8
- 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)	Aust.
Trend
2016
	September	33 077	27 729	19 096	5 989	8 199	1 735	885	1 533	98 242
	October	33 134	27 750	18 993	5 987	8 064	1 734	872	1 552	98 086
	November	33 078	27 626	18 890	5 958	7 933	1 704	860	1 567	97 616
	December	32 974	27 425	18 817	5 916	7 848	1 655	851	1 570	97 056
2017
	January	32 909	27 307	18 819	5 885	7 832	1 609	849	1 563	96 773
	February	32 930	27 354	18 927	5 895	7 852	1 581	860	1 554	96 953
	March	33 032	27 591	19 154	5 948	7 887	1 569	883	1 551	97 615
	April	33 190	27 924	19 440	6 019	7 935	1 569	911	1 557	98 545
	May	33 341	28 229	19 680	6 082	7 994	1 576	934	1 565	99 401
	June	33 421	28 403	19 799	6 121	8 081	1 593	945	1 569	99 932
	July	33 394	28 428	19 765	6 116	8 191	1 618	941	1 563	100 016
	August	33 257	28 318	19 640	6 078	8 311	1 649	923	1 549	99 725
	September	33 097	28 167	19 500	6 037	8 435	1 684	899	1 533	99 352
	October	32 939	28 041	19 389	6 002	8 551	1 718	875	1 521	99 034
	November	32 805	27 913	19 259	5 965	8 639	1 746	853	1 510	98 690
Seasonally Adjusted
2016
	September	33 326	28 038	19 202	6 248	8 344	1 835	937	1 564	99 494
	October	33 440	27 934	18 754	5 688	7 952	1 765	826	1 539	97 899
	November	32 306	27 784	19 104	6 049	7 674	1 670	862	1 555	97 003
	December	33 816	26 402	19 054	6 047	8 063	1 651	843	1 668	97 544
2017
	January	32 920	28 661	18 510	5 874	7 778	1 584	860	1 542	97 729
	February	32 348	26 458	18 900	5 660	7 817	1 557	883	1 519	95 143
	March	32 642	27 262	19 132	6 004	7 946	1 576	825	1 528	96 915
	April	33 547	27 730	18 875	5 968	7 857	1 562	899	1 539	97 978
	May	33 589	28 493	19 987	6 158	8 202	1 617	943	1 560	100 549
	June	33 648	29 395	20 603	6 223	7 895	1 612	1 012	1 644	102 032
	July	33 204	28 168	19 710	6 175	8 116	1 580	938	1 570	99 459
	August	33 039	28 149	19 525	6 020	8 424	1 535	935	1 534	99 162
	September	33 577	27 864	18 992	5 945	8 389	1 822	868	1 497	98 953
	October	32 668	28 109	19 427	6 030	8 618	1 704	858	1 507	98 920
	November	32 682	28 033	19 530	5 979	8 680	1 754	855	1 542	99 055
Original
2016
	September	34 424	28 766	19 702	6 551	8 668	2 074	880	1 631	102 696
	October	31 850	27 546	16 870	5 450	7 580	1 937	713	1 411	93 357
	November	32 955	28 991	18 733	6 259	7 657	1 903	808	1 631	98 937
	December	33 632	27 065	19 252	6 464	8 026	1 918	734	1 672	98 763
2017
	January	29 068	24 535	15 709	5 134	7 037	1 337	652	1 438	84 910
	February	30 221	24 917	17 474	5 354	7 526	1 334	760	1 439	89 025
	March	35 677	29 252	21 217	6 387	8 712	1 536	946	1 683	105 410
	April	28 565	23 292	16 312	4 951	6 634	1 214	910	1 257	83 135
	May	34 545	29 077	20 674	6 133	8 154	1 540	1 276	1 502	102 901
	June	44 341	37 255	28 768	8 213	10 161	1 953	1 333	2 147	134 171
	July	30 620	26 584	18 540	5 663	7 576	1 376	914	1 481	92 754
	August	32 137	27 569	18 695	5 790	8 487	1 538	904	1 542	96 662
	September	34 168	28 096	19 175	6 029	8 401	2 016	821	1 494	100 200
	October	31 454	28 098	17 860	5 831	8 458	1 870	744	1 448	95 763
	November	33 463	29 332	19 134	6 330	8 685	2 021	789	1 611	101 365
(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.