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	NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
Vehicle sales (no.)
Trend	29 483	25 696	19 213	5 813	10 146	1 607	974	1 429	94 362
Seasonally Adjusted	29 230	25 709	19 162	5 872	10 155	1 691	921	1 409	94 150
Change from previous month (%)
Trend	0.1	0.2	-0.3	0.4	-0.7	-0.7	-	-0.9	-
Seasonally Adjusted	-1.5	0.5	-0.4	0.9	1.0	17.9	-8.4	-2.9	-0.1
Change from previous year (%)
Trend	1.3	2.0	-5.3	0.2	-8.2	8.1	-1.0	-5.1	-1.1
Seasonally Adjusted	-2.1	-1.5	-6.0	-0.3	-9.7	8.2	-6.8	-8.9	-3.5
- 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.

SEPTEMBER KEY POINTS


TOTAL NEW MOTOR VEHICLE SALES

• Trend estimates: The September 2013 trend estimate (94 362) has decreased by 43 units when compared with August 2013.
• Seasonally adjusted estimates: The September 2013 seasonally adjusted estimate (94 150) has decreased by 0.1% when compared with August 2013.

• Trend estimates: When comparing national trend estimates for September 2013 with August 2013, sales of Passenger and Other vehicles decreased by 0.2% respectively. Over the same period, Sports utility vehicles increased by 0.3%.
• Seasonally adjusted estimates: When comparing seasonally adjusted estimates for September 2013 with August 2013, sales of Passenger and Sports utility vehicles decreased by 1.2% and 1.0% respectively. Over the same period, Other vehicles increased by 4.0%.

• Trend estimates: Four of the eight states and territories experienced a decrease for new motor vehicle sales when comparing September 2013 with August 2013. The Australian Capital Territory recorded the largest percentage decrease (0.9%), followed by Western Australia and Tasmania (0.7%) and then Queensland (0.3%). This is the tenth consecutive month of decline for Queensland and ninth consecutive month of decline for Western Australia and the ACT.
• Seasonally adjusted estimates: Four of the eight states and territories experienced an increase in new motor vehicle sales when comparing September 2013 with August 2013. Tasmania recorded the largest percentage increase (17.9%) followed by Western Australia (1.0%) and South Australia (0.9%). Over the same period, sales in the Northern Territory decreased by 8.4%.

Footnote(s): Break in time series for trend between June and July 2000. See paragraph 13 of the Expanatory Notes.

Source(s): Sales of New Motor Vehicles, Australia

Source(s): Sales of New Motor Vehicles, Australia

New motor vehicle sales by type of vehicle by month
		Passenger vehicles	Sports utility vehicles	Other vehicles	Total vehicles	Change Passenger vehicles	Change Sports utility vehicles	Change Other vehicles	Change Total vehicles
		no.	no.	no.	no.	%	%	%	%
Trend
2012
	July	47 393	26 029	19 918	93 341	0.5	1.2	2.5	1.1
	August	47 971	26 211	20 231	94 413	1.2	0.7	1.6	1.1
	September	48 640	26 310	20 445	95 395	1.4	0.4	1.1	1.0
	October	49 136	26 403	20 609	96 148	1.0	0.4	0.8	0.8
	November	49 249	26 527	20 694	96 471	0.2	0.5	0.4	0.3
	December	48 904	26 719	20 643	96 267	-0.7	0.7	-0.2	-0.2
2013
	January	48 248	26 990	20 495	95 733	-1.3	1.0	-0.7	-0.6
	February	47 595	27 286	20 318	95 199	-1.4	1.1	-0.9	-0.6
	March	47 199	27 542	20 083	94 824	-0.8	0.9	-1.2	-0.4
	April	47 131	27 678	19 815	94 624	-0.1	0.5	-1.3	-0.2
	May	47 267	27 693	19 572	94 533	0.3	0.1	-1.2	-0.1
	June	47 426	27 715	19 389	94 530	0.3	0.1	-0.9	-
	July	47 468	27 778	19 249	94 495	0.1	0.2	-0.7	-
	August	47 454	27 844	19 107	94 405	-	0.2	-0.7	-0.1
	September	47 374	27 920	19 067	94 362	-0.2	0.3	-0.2	-
Seasonally Adjusted
2012
	July	44 903	25 502	20 479	90 883	-3.9	-0.5	11.3	0.1
	August	46 843	26 506	20 759	94 109	4.3	3.9	1.4	3.5
	September	49 758	27 260	20 555	97 574	6.2	2.8	-1.0	3.7
	October	49 059	26 601	20 299	95 960	-1.4	-2.4	-1.2	-1.7
	November	50 229	25 010	20 336	95 575	2.4	-6.0	0.2	-0.4
	December	50 632	26 717	20 318	97 668	0.8	6.8	-0.1	2.2
2013
	January	46 529	27 656	21 115	95 300	-8.1	3.5	3.9	-2.4
	February	46 099	27 799	21 570	95 469	-0.9	0.5	2.2	0.2
	March	47 740	27 628	19 402	94 770	3.6	-0.6	-10.1	-0.7
	April	47 293	27 439	18 805	93 537	-0.9	-0.7	-3.1	-1.3
	May	46 863	27 537	19 323	93 724	-0.9	0.4	2.8	0.2
	June	48 297	28 003	20 675	96 975	3.1	1.7	7.0	3.5
	July	46 926	27 390	19 272	93 588	-2.8	-2.2	-6.8	-3.5
	August	47 733	28 155	18 367	94 255	1.7	2.8	-4.7	0.7
	September	47 155	27 887	19 108	94 150	-1.2	-1.0	4.0	-0.1
Original
2012
	July	43 354	23 845	19 442	86 641	-24.5	-24.6	-17.3	-23.0
	August	46 612	26 216	20 724	93 552	7.5	9.9	6.6	8.0
	September	49 210	25 079	20 338	94 627	5.6	-4.3	-1.9	1.1
	October	49 291	25 737	20 556	95 584	0.2	2.6	1.1	1.0
	November	51 652	26 145	20 550	98 347	4.8	1.6	-	2.9
	December	50 618	25 548	19 261	95 427	-2.0	-2.3	-6.3	-3.0
2013
	January	41 957	26 623	16 850	85 430	-17.1	4.2	-12.5	-10.5
	February	43 338	26 834	20 046	90 218	3.3	0.8	19.0	5.6
	March	48 664	29 148	19 588	97 400	12.3	8.6	-2.3	8.0
	April	42 844	24 384	17 889	85 117	-12.0	-16.3	-8.7	-12.6
	May	46 774	29 152	20 862	96 788	9.2	19.6	16.6	13.7
	June	57 636	34 398	26 724	118 758	23.2	18.0	28.1	22.7
	July	46 318	25 568	18 349	90 235	-19.6	-25.7	-31.3	-24.0
	August	48 060	27 515	17 761	93 336	3.8	7.6	-3.2	3.4
	September	47 149	26 199	19 314	92 662	-1.9	-4.8	8.7	-0.7
- 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)	Aust.
		no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.
Trend
2012
	July	28 654	24 499	19 920	5 660	10 756	1 386	990	1 476	93 341
	August	28 889	24 844	20 132	5 720	10 906	1 438	991	1 493	94 413
	September	29 093	25 185	20 288	5 802	11 050	1 487	985	1 505	95 395
	October	29 244	25 415	20 392	5 888	11 188	1 525	979	1 518	96 148
	November	29 288	25 466	20 425	5 956	11 287	1 546	973	1 528	96 471
	December	29 201	25 378	20 340	5 999	11 298	1 550	969	1 532	96 267
2013
	January	29 058	25 257	20 163	6 011	11 209	1 550	958	1 527	95 733
	February	28 954	25 203	19 961	5 989	11 067	1 561	947	1 515	95 199
	March	28 955	25 242	19 753	5 940	10 900	1 584	945	1 503	94 824
	April	29 036	25 337	19 585	5 877	10 733	1 613	952	1 490	94 624
	May	29 152	25 437	19 472	5 822	10 578	1 633	962	1 478	94 533
	June	29 290	25 532	19 399	5 793	10 443	1 636	970	1 467	94 530
	July	29 392	25 603	19 333	5 786	10 324	1 629	974	1 454	94 495
	August	29 447	25 649	19 266	5 790	10 217	1 619	974	1 441	94 405
	September	29 483	25 696	19 213	5 813	10 146	1 607	974	1 429	94 362
Seasonally Adjusted
2012
	July	27 809	24 008	19 027	5 621	10 651	1 435	923	1 409	90 883
	August	29 004	24 901	20 063	5 749	10 704	1 280	939	1 469	94 109
	September	29 846	26 109	20 385	5 891	11 244	1 563	989	1 547	97 574
	October	29 237	25 351	20 200	5 885	11 241	1 547	1 017	1 482	95 960
	November	28 609	25 175	20 479	5 835	11 261	1 683	1 001	1 532	95 575
	December	30 064	25 488	20 667	6 031	11 430	1 464	961	1 562	97 668
2013
	January	28 597	25 249	19 909	6 403	11 030	1 682	897	1 533	95 300
	February	28 973	25 291	20 018	5 906	11 275	1 528	981	1 497	95 469
	March	29 038	24 698	20 133	5 846	10 923	1 643	965	1 525	94 770
	April	28 659	25 582	18 922	5 896	10 566	1 557	920	1 434	93 537
	May	28 906	25 375	19 227	5 711	10 384	1 653	973	1 494	93 724
	June	30 149	25 985	20 121	5 835	10 689	1 749	932	1 515	96 975
	July	28 966	25 327	19 103	5 730	10 374	1 641	1 026	1 421	93 588
	August	29 685	25 570	19 233	5 820	10 056	1 435	1 005	1 451	94 255
	September	29 230	25 709	19 162	5 872	10 155	1 691	921	1 409	94 150
Original
2012
	July	26 594	22 991	18 234	5 298	9 968	1 268	917	1 371	86 641
	August	28 706	24 696	19 791	5 577	11 072	1 365	898	1 447	93 552
	September	28 854	25 263	19 579	5 821	11 054	1 651	918	1 487	94 627
	October	28 792	26 078	19 602	5 848	11 228	1 612	949	1 475	95 584
	November	30 030	25 740	20 368	6 024	11 676	2 015	938	1 556	98 347
	December	28 619	25 238	20 116	6 265	11 014	1 772	859	1 544	95 427
2013
	January	26 194	22 583	16 946	5 918	10 198	1 403	748	1 440	85 430
	February	27 427	24 415	18 369	5 696	10 679	1 309	867	1 456	90 218
	March	29 928	25 360	21 135	5 680	11 145	1 564	1 075	1 513	97 400
	April	25 982	23 023	17 666	5 381	9 497	1 273	971	1 324	85 117
	May	29 707	26 226	20 221	5 761	10 610	1 597	1 132	1 534	96 788
	June	37 194	30 647	26 245	6 999	12 782	1 917	1 162	1 812	118 758
	July	27 789	24 584	18 618	5 485	9 848	1 466	1 049	1 396	90 235
	August	29 223	25 210	19 101	5 730	10 177	1 491	967	1 437	93 336
	September	28 702	25 430	18 498	5 847	10 153	1 835	852	1 345	92 662
(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.