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SEPTEMBER KEY FIGURES

	NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aus
Vehicle sales (no.)
Trend	24 612	21 560	16 868	5 315	9 570	1 612	875	1 200	81 612
Seasonally Adjusted	24 749	21 234	16 991	5 291	9 454	1 539	861	1 185	81 304
Change from previous month (%)
Trend	-1.4	-2.0	-2.3	-0.6	-1.2	-0.6	-1.2	-2.4	-1.7
Seasonally Adjusted	2.6	-0.1	2.0	-0.1	-3.4	-11.6	-5.5	-1.3	0.4
Change from previous year (%)
Trend	-9.2	-4.7	-14.6	2.0	-6.9	-1.9	5.9	-14.7	-8.1
Seasonally Adjusted	-6.8	-7.4	-13.5	2.3	-8.8	-7.7	3.5	-16.5	-8.2
(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.

New Motor Vehicle Sales, Total vehicles - Short term

• Trend - The September 2008 trend estimate for new motor vehicle sales (81 612) decreased 1.7% when compared with August 2008. The trend estimate has decreased for the eighth month in a row. When compared with September 2007 the trend estimate decreased by 8.1%.
• Seasonally adjusted - The September 2008 estimate for total sales of new motor vehicles (81 304) increased by 0.4% compared with August 2008.

• Trend - When comparing September 2008 with August 2008, trend estimates decreased for sports utility vehicles, 2.7%, passenger vehicles, 1.6%, and other vehicles, 1.1%. When compared with the same period 12 months ago, passenger vehicles fell by 8.1%, sports utility vehicles by 13.3% and other vehicles by 3.3%.
• Seasonally adjusted - When comparing September 2008 with August 2008, sports utility vehicles decreased by 1.1%, while passenger and other vehicles increased by 0.9% and 0.4% respectively.

• Trend - When comparing September 2008 to August 2008, all of the states and territories showed decreases in the trend estimate of total sales of new motor vehicles. The largest decreases were in Australian Capital Territory, 2.4% and Queensland, 2.3%.
• Seasonally adjusted - When comparing September 2008 to August 2008, two of the states showed increases, New South Wales, 2.6% and Queensland, 2.0%. The largest decreases were in Tasmania, 11.6%, Northern Territory, 5.5%, and Western Australia, 3.4%.

New Motor Vehicle Sales, Total vehicles - Long term

New Motor Vehicle Sales, Total vehicles - Short term

New motor vehicle sales by type of vehicle
		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
2007
	July	52 801	16 722	17 830	87 353	-0.3	2.3	1.3	0.5
	August	52 778	17 116	18 153	88 047	-	2.4	1.8	0.8
	September	52 866	17 482	18 495	88 843	0.2	2.1	1.9	0.9
	October	53 028	17 764	18 772	89 564	0.3	1.6	1.5	0.8
	November	53 189	17 946	18 979	90 114	0.3	1.0	1.1	0.6
	December	53 274	17 997	19 141	90 412	0.2	0.3	0.9	0.3
2008
	January	53 208	17 984	19 237	90 429	-0.1	-0.1	0.5	-
	February	52 980	17 935	19 266	90 181	-0.4	-0.3	0.2	-0.3
	March	52 611	17 802	19 214	89 627	-0.7	-0.7	-0.3	-0.6
	April	52 124	17 517	19 069	88 710	-0.9	-1.6	-0.8	-1.0
	May	51 553	17 084	18 844	87 481	-1.1	-2.5	-1.2	-1.4
	June	50 900	16 570	18 572	86 042	-1.3	-3.0	-1.4	-1.6
	July	50 137	16 054	18 302	84 493	-1.5	-3.1	-1.5	-1.8
	August	49 343	15 573	18 081	82 997	-1.6	-3.0	-1.2	-1.8
	September	48 572	15 159	17 881	81 612	-1.6	-2.7	-1.1	-1.7
Seasonally Adjusted
2007
	July	54 072	16 461	17 848	88 381	0.5	4.1	2.1	1.5
	August	52 173	17 427	17 872	87 472	-3.5	5.9	0.1	-1.0
	September	52 179	17 759	18 638	88 576	-	1.9	4.3	1.3
	October	52 351	18 087	18 738	89 176	0.3	1.8	0.5	0.7
	November	53 168	17 555	19 534	90 257	1.6	-2.9	4.2	1.2
	December	54 432	17 649	18 870	90 951	2.4	0.5	-3.4	0.8
2008
	January	54 089	18 327	19 118	91 534	-0.6	3.8	1.3	0.6
	February	52 077	17 986	18 875	88 938	-3.7	-1.9	-1.3	-2.8
	March	52 222	17 730	19 317	89 269	0.3	-1.4	2.3	0.4
	April	51 426	17 638	20 031	89 095	-1.5	-0.5	3.7	-0.2
	May	52 024	16 748	18 486	87 258	1.2	-5.0	-7.7	-2.1
	June	52 227	17 554	18 205	87 986	0.4	4.8	-1.5	0.8
	July	50 485	15 495	18 360	84 340	-3.3	-11.7	0.9	-4.1
	August	47 767	15 238	17 961	80 966	-5.4	-1.7	-2.2	-4.0
	September	48 191	15 076	18 037	81 304	0.9	-1.1	0.4	0.4
Original
2007
	July	53 589	15 396	17 306	86 291	-16.0	-18.8	-22.6	-17.9
	August	52 748	17 440	18 018	88 206	-1.6	13.3	4.1	2.2
	September	50 197	15 874	17 418	83 489	-4.8	-9.0	-3.3	-5.3
	October	53 336	17 748	18 205	89 289	6.3	11.8	4.5	6.9
	November	54 195	17 702	20 184	92 081	1.6	-0.3	10.9	3.1
	December	51 722	17 114	17 414	86 250	-4.6	-3.3	-13.7	-6.3
2008
	January	49 295	17 646	15 329	82 270	-4.7	3.1	-12.0	-4.6
	February	53 030	18 277	18 591	89 898	7.6	3.6	21.3	9.3
	March	53 122	18 425	19 738	91 285	0.2	0.8	6.2	1.5
	April	47 639	16 654	19 768	84 061	-10.3	-9.6	0.2	-7.9
	May	51 416	17 279	19 945	88 640	7.9	3.8	0.9	5.4
	June	61 524	21 388	23 629	106 541	19.7	23.8	18.5	20.2
	July	51 068	14 842	18 066	83 976	-17.0	-30.6	-23.5	-21.2
	August	46 114	14 233	16 977	77 324	-9.7	-4.1	-6.0	-7.9
	September	48 865	14 200	17 873	80 938	6.0	-0.2	5.3	4.7
- 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)	Aus
		no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.
Trend
2007
	July	26 774	22 148	19 335	5 094	10 179	1 606	819	1 398	87 353
	August	26 924	22 395	19 503	5 138	10 241	1 623	821	1 402	88 047
	September	27 096	22 634	19 744	5 213	10 280	1 644	826	1 406	88 843
	October	27 281	22 834	19 956	5 305	10 285	1 659	834	1 410	89 564
	November	27 412	22 995	20 091	5 392	10 286	1 673	852	1 413	90 114
	December	27 435	23 130	20 109	5 461	10 297	1 691	875	1 414	90 412
2008
	January	27 355	23 266	19 979	5 508	10 313	1 703	898	1 407	90 429
	February	27 184	23 409	19 742	5 525	10 307	1 700	917	1 397	90 181
	March	26 915	23 510	19 424	5 517	10 267	1 687	927	1 380	89 627
	April	26 569	23 464	19 055	5 488	10 180	1 673	926	1 355	88 710
	May	26 184	23 240	18 648	5 450	10 057	1 659	918	1 325	87 481
	June	25 771	22 887	18 206	5 412	9 924	1 643	906	1 293	86 042
	July	25 353	22 455	17 723	5 379	9 797	1 632	894	1 260	84 493
	August	24 960	21 996	17 268	5 349	9 686	1 622	886	1 230	82 997
	September	24 612	21 560	16 868	5 315	9 570	1 612	875	1 200	81 612
Seasonally Adjusted
2007
	July	27 179	22 249	19 579	5 175	10 258	1 762	800	1 379	88 381
	August	26 946	22 515	18 910	5 111	10 298	1 467	812	1 413	87 472
	September	26 561	22 921	19 635	5 173	10 366	1 668	832	1 420	88 576
	October	27 304	22 635	19 763	5 343	10 218	1 654	853	1 406	89 176
	November	27 607	22 677	20 435	5 396	10 164	1 748	845	1 385	90 257
	December	27 363	23 122	21 052	5 250	10 242	1 629	858	1 435	90 951
2008
	January	27 853	23 657	19 548	5 879	10 563	1 731	880	1 423	91 534
	February	26 988	23 387	19 163	5 449	10 046	1 658	895	1 352	88 938
	March	26 904	23 298	19 098	5 448	10 368	1 691	1 023	1 439	89 269
	April	26 023	23 130	20 042	5 410	10 419	1 804	923	1 344	89 095
	May	26 328	23 540	18 205	5 491	9 937	1 572	887	1 298	87 258
	June	26 627	23 735	18 611	5 504	9 780	1 566	865	1 298	87 986
	July	25 210	22 437	17 630	5 351	9 846	1 648	921	1 297	84 340
	August	24 123	21 250	16 659	5 298	9 783	1 741	911	1 201	80 966
	September	24 749	21 234	16 991	5 291	9 454	1 539	861	1 185	81 304
Original
2007
	July	26 851	21 655	19 600	4 871	9 645	1 561	739	1 369	86 291
	August	26 549	22 958	19 145	5 128	10 730	1 481	791	1 424	88 206
	September	24 946	21 788	18 025	4 738	10 244	1 684	724	1 340	83 489
	October	27 556	23 097	18 933	5 329	10 460	1 708	781	1 425	89 289
	November	27 835	23 644	20 189	5 556	10 435	2 225	803	1 394	92 081
	December	25 290	22 432	19 557	5 078	9 809	2 010	719	1 355	86 250
2008
	January	25 810	21 044	16 972	5 256	9 650	1 490	722	1 326	82 270
	February	27 855	23 803	18 914	5 607	9 952	1 484	876	1 407	89 898
	March	28 128	23 153	20 231	5 334	10 483	1 470	1 108	1 378	91 285
	April	24 489	21 814	19 109	5 293	9 475	1 496	1 049	1 336	84 061
	May	26 334	23 865	18 672	5 803	10 067	1 585	1 025	1 289	88 640
	June	32 027	27 638	24 335	6 568	11 564	1 778	1 128	1 503	106 541
	July	25 216	22 272	17 963	5 237	9 580	1 510	900	1 298	83 976
	August	22 669	20 575	15 679	5 034	9 652	1 680	855	1 180	77 324
	September	24 513	21 479	16 697	5 074	9 679	1 561	755	1 180	80 938
(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.