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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.


SEPTEMBER 2006 KEY POINTS

Trend

The trend estimate for total sales of new motor vehicles continues to increase. The September 2006 trend estimate (80,622) increased 0.5% compared with the August 2006 estimate.

Passenger vehicles was the only category to record an increase from August 2006 to September 2006, rising 0.8%. Passenger vehicles have now shown five consecutive months of trend increases.

The trend estimate for sports utility vehicles remained stable for September 2006 after 18 consecutive months of decline, while the 'other vehicles' category continued to decline for the 13th month in a row.

Six states or territories showed a positive monthly percentage change in their trend estimates from August 2006 to September 2006, with Western Australia recording the highest percentage increase of 1.2%.


Seasonally adjusted

The September 2006 seasonally adjusted estimate for total sales of new motor vehicles (81,651) increased 3.0% compared to the August 2006 estimate.

Tasmania had the largest increase (15.7%) with all other states and territories except the Northern Territory showing slight increases. The Northern Territory decreased 5.3%.

Over this period, 'other' vehicles were the only vehicle type to decrease (down 0.2%). Passenger vehicles rose 2.1% and sports utility vehicles rose 10.4%.

	NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
Vehicle sales
Seasonally adjusted	24 816	20 905	17 508	5 034	9 744	1 647	753	1 244	81 651
Trend	24 320	20 476	17 596	5 036	9 661	1 558	765	1 210	80 622
Percentage change from previous month
Seasonally adjusted	3.3	3.4	1.8	2.0	2.8	15.7	-5.3	4.2	3.0
Trend	0.6	0.8	-0.3	-0.4	1.2	0.1	0.7	0.7	0.5
Percentage change from previous year
Seasonally adjusted	-4.1	-3.0	-4.7	-5.2	9.7	-19.3	-10.4	-3.9	-3.0
Trend	-2.9	-4.5	-2.1	-4.3	11.4	-6.6	-3.3	-3.5	-1.8

ISSUE	RELEASE DATE
September 2006	20 October 2006
October 2006	21 November 2006
November 2006	21 December 2006
December 2006 January 2007	22 January 2007 21 February 2007
February 2007	21 March 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	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
	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
Seasonally adjusted
2005	July	50 917	14 707	16 545	82 169	-1.0	2.0	-2.2	-0.7
	August	51 497	15 023	17 265	83 785	1.1	2.1	4.4	2.0
	September	51 294	15 687	17 197	84 178	-0.4	4.4	-0.4	0.5
	October	48 711	14 037	16 299	79 047	-5.0	-10.5	-5.2	-6.1
	November	50 001	14 031	16 507	80 539	2.6	-0.0	1.3	1.9
	December	49 556	14 953	16 740	81 249	-0.9	6.6	1.4	0.9
2006	January	51 442	14 728	16 953	83 123	3.8	-1.5	1.3	2.3
	February	50 088	14 174	16 634	80 896	-2.6	-3.8	-1.9	-2.7
	March	48 627	13 992	16 595	79 214	-2.9	-1.3	-0.2	-2.1
	April	49 278	13 905	16 318	79 501	1.3	-0.6	-1.7	0.4
	May	49 599	13 897	16 341	79 837	0.7	-0.1	0.1	0.4
	June	48 830	14 305	15 576	78 711	-1.6	2.9	-4.7	-1.4
	July	50 667	14 154	16 183	81 004	3.8	-1.1	3.9	2.9
	August	50 291	13 032	15 936	79 259	-0.7	-7.9	-1.5	-2.2
	September	51 354	14 385	15 912	81 651	2.1	10.4	-0.2	3.0
Trend
2005	July	51 073	14 753	16 891	82 717	-0.4	-0.9	0.6	-0.3
	August	50 828	14 720	16 905	82 453	-0.5	-0.2	0.1	-0.3
	September	50 539	14 717	16 841	82 097	-0.6	-0.0	-0.4	-0.4
	October	50 277	14 685	16 771	81 733	-0.5	-0.2	-0.4	-0.4
	November	50 104	14 608	16 730	81 442	-0.3	-0.5	-0.2	-0.4
	December	50 001	14 490	16 710	81 201	-0.2	-0.8	-0.1	-0.3
2006	January	49 897	14 364	16 689	80 950	-0.2	-0.9	-0.1	-0.3
	February	49 749	14 271	16 634	80 654	-0.3	-0.6	-0.3	-0.4
	March	49 560	14 180	16 532	80 272	-0.4	-0.6	-0.6	-0.5
	April	49 405	14 074	16 366	79 845	-0.3	-0.7	-1.0	-0.5
	May	49 417	13 975	16 194	79 586	0.0	-0.7	-1.1	-0.3
	June	49 660	13 936	16 061	79 657	0.5	-0.3	-0.8	0.1
	July	50 033	13 916	15 968	79 917	0.8	-0.1	-0.6	0.3
	August	50 443	13 900	15 906	80 249	0.8	-0.1	-0.4	0.4
	September	50 858	13 899	15 865	80 622	0.8	-0.0	-0.3	0.5

		NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
		(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)
Original
2005	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
	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
Seasonally adjusted
2005	July	25 412	21 321	18 118	5 160	8 416	1 627	831	1 284	82 169
	August	25 911	21 851	18 290	5 288	8 682	1 652	800	1 311	83 785
	September	25 873	21 560	18 375	5 310	8 884	2 042	840	1 294	84 178
	October	23 698	20 665	17 427	5 197	8 527	1 606	739	1 188	79 047
	November	24 440	21 313	17 268	5 292	8 837	1 464	715	1 210	80 539
	December	24 686	21 611	17 466	5 241	8 725	1 577	767	1 176	81 249
2006	January	25 850	21 275	18 152	5 310	8 851	1 600	817	1 268	83 123
	February	25 299	20 937	17 254	5 253	8 517	1 626	793	1 217	80 896
	March	24 585	19 946	17 601	4 835	8 678	1 594	769	1 206	79 214
	April	24 108	20 446	17 368	5 319	8 851	1 473	748	1 188	79 501
	May	23 872	20 199	17 792	5 267	9 243	1 575	740	1 149	79 837
	June	23 883	19 475	17 537	5 044	9 070	1 718	768	1 216	78 711
	July	24 193	20 412	18 285	5 157	9 531	1 514	738	1 174	81 004
	August	24 015	20 215	17 203	4 937	9 476	1 424	795	1 194	79 259
	September	24 816	20905	17 508	5 034	9 744	1 647	753	1 244	81 651
Trend
2005	July	25 439	21 516	18 298	5 270	8 420	1 700	818	1 256	82 717
	August	25 237	21 487	18 155	5 255	8 562	1 692	807	1 258	82 453
	September	25 045	21 436	17 966	5 261	8 676	1 668	791	1 254	82 097
	October	24 918	21 377	17 776	5 266	8 741	1 637	776	1 242	81 733
	November	24 882	21 308	17 638	5 260	8 751	1 607	769	1 227	81 442
	December	24 906	21 212	17 551	5 243	8 723	1 581	768	1 217	81 201
2006	January	24 927	21 039	17 514	5 219	8 698	1 569	773	1 211	80 950
	February	24 877	20 793	17 526	5 194	8 712	1 569	774	1 209	80 654
	March	24 690	20 500	17 576	5 176	8 776	1 579	772	1 203	80 272
	April	24 398	20 233	17 621	5 160	8 893	1 581	765	1 194	79 845
	May	24 139	20 093	17 644	5 141	9 052	1 573	757	1 187	79 586
	June	24 040	20 098	17 663	5 119	9 229	1 565	756	1 187	79 657
	July	24 073	20 182	17 666	5 089	9 396	1 560	758	1 193	79 917
	August	24 173	20 307	17 650	5 056	9 545	1 557	760	1 201	80 249
	September	24 320	20 476	17 596	5 036	9 661	1 558	765	1 210	80 622
(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.