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OCTOBER 2007 KEY POINTS

Trend

The October 2007 trend estimate for new motor vehicle sales (88 216) increased 0.5% when compared with the September 2007 estimate. The trend estimate has now been increasing for over 15 consecutive months. When compared to October 2006, the trend estimate increased by 8.2%.

Sports utility vehicles increased 2.2% and other vehicles increased by 1.3% when comparing October 2007 to September 2007. Passenger vehicles decreased 0.4% for the same period. Trend estimates for sports utility vehicles have been increasing for over 15 consecutive months and other vehicles for 13 consecutive months.

All vehicle types have recorded increases when compared to the same period 12 months ago. Sports utility vehicles, other vehicles and passenger vehicles rose 22.9%, 15.3% and 1.8%, respectively.

When comparing October 2007 to September 2007, all states and territories showed increases in the trend estimate of total sales of new motor vehicles. Victoria and the Northern Territory showed the largest increases, both increasing 0.6%. The Australian Capital Territory increased the least with 0.2%.

Seasonally adjusted

The October 2007 seasonally adjusted estimate for total sales of new motor vehicles (88 856) increased by 1.1% compared with September 2007. Sports utility vehicles and other vehicles increased by 4.6% and 1.5% respectively, while passenger vehicles decreased by 0.2%.

When comparing October 2007 to September 2007, four states and territories showed increases in total sales. The largest increase was in the Northern Territory with an increase of 5.0%, followed by South Australia with 4.7%. Total sales decreased in the Australian Capital Territory (1.5%), Western Australia (1.3%), Victoria (1.2%) and Tasmania (0.3%).

	NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
Vehicle sales
Seasonally adjusted	27 394	22 436	19 616	5 266	10 264	1 630	856	1 394	88 856
Trend	26 941	22 636	19 291	5 135	10 363	1 622	831	1 397	88 216
Percentage change from previous month
Seasonally adjusted	3.5	-1.2	1.2	4.7	-1.3	-0.3	5.0	-1.5	1.1
Trend	0.5	0.6	0.3	0.5	0.3	0.4	0.6	0.2	0.5
Percentage change from previous year
Seasonally adjusted	9.7	9.5	9.6	8.4	6.2	-1.8	1.8	15.1	8.9
Trend	8.3	11.0	7.0	3.8	7.3	2.1	4.5	13.3	8.2

ISSUE	RELEASE DATE
November 2007	21 December 2007
December 2007	22 January 2008
January 2008	21 February 2008
February 2008	20 March 2008
March 2008	21 April 2008
April 2008	21 May 2008

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
2006	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	50 532	13 921	15 477	79 930	-1.7	5.4	0.5	-0.1
	November	51 850	15 193	16 254	83 297	2.6	9.1	5.0	4.2
	December	48 348	14 258	14 457	77 063	-6.8	-6.2	-11.1	-7.5
2007	January	49 189	14 303	13 444	76 936	1.7	0.3	-7.0	-0.2
	February	52 628	14 912	16 200	83 740	7.0	4.3	20.5	8.8
	March	57 757	17 589	19 046	94 392	9.7	18.0	17.6	12.7
	April	45 109	14 274	16 231	75 614	-21.9	-18.8	-14.8	-19.9
	May	52 727	16 912	18 958	88 597	16.9	18.5	16.8	17.2
	June	63 768	18 966	22 363	105 097	20.9	12.1	18.0	18.6
	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
Seasonally adjusted
2006	August	50 730	13 082	16 062	79 874	0.5	-8.1	-0.1	-1.1
	September	51 094	14 470	15 880	81 444	0.7	10.6	-1.1	2.0
	October	50 628	14 758	16 190	81 576	-0.9	2.0	2.0	0.2
	November	50 808	14 842	16 098	81 748	0.4	0.6	-0.6	0.2
	December	51 591	14 844	15 640	82 075	1.5	0.0	-2.8	0.4
2007	January	54 346	15 332	16 903	86 581	5.3	3.3	8.1	5.5
	February	53 674	15 459	17 255	86 388	-1.2	0.8	2.1	-0.2
	March	53 785	15 609	17 581	86 975	0.2	1.0	1.9	0.7
	April	51 859	16 436	17 452	85 747	-3.6	5.3	-0.7	-1.4
	May	52 554	15 754	17 402	85 710	1.3	-4.1	-0.3	-0.0
	June	54 035	15 949	17 271	87 255	2.8	1.2	-0.8	1.8
	July	53 825	16 127	17 827	87 779	-0.4	1.1	3.2	0.6
	August	51 555	17 113	17 701	86 369	-4.2	6.1	-0.7	-1.6
	September	51 935	17 519	18 397	87 851	0.7	2.4	3.9	1.7
	October	51 844	18 330	18 682	88 856	-0.2	4.6	1.5	1.1
Trend
2006	August	50 221	14 111	15 968	80 300	0.7	0.6	-0.4	0.5
	September	50 589	14 259	15 935	80 783	0.7	1.0	-0.2	0.6
	October	51 091	14 462	15 972	81 525	1.0	1.4	0.2	0.9
	November	51 716	14 728	16 117	82 561	1.2	1.8	0.9	1.3
	December	52 315	15 029	16 375	83 719	1.2	2.0	1.6	1.4
2007	January	52 794	15 309	16 689	84 792	0.9	1.9	1.9	1.3
	February	53 172	15 520	17 011	85 703	0.7	1.4	1.9	1.1
	March	53 361	15 675	17 262	86 298	0.4	1.0	1.5	0.7
	April	53 351	15 815	17 415	86 581	-0.0	0.9	0.9	0.3
	May	53 178	15 977	17 497	86 652	-0.3	1.0	0.5	0.1
	June	52 962	16 215	17 578	86 755	-0.4	1.5	0.5	0.1
	July	52 765	16 552	17 730	87 047	-0.4	2.1	0.9	0.3
	August	52 521	16 964	17 948	87 433	-0.5	2.5	1.2	0.4
	September	52 236	17 395	18 181	87 812	-0.5	2.5	1.3	0.4
	October	52 028	17 777	18 411	88 216	-0.4	2.2	1.3	0.5

		NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
		(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)	(No.)
Original
2006	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	24 379	20 785	16 625	4 781	9 591	1 797	762	1 210	79 930
	November	25 418	20 739	18 076	5 116	9 972	1 973	733	1 270	83 297
	December	22 927	19 790	16 551	4 700	9 471	1 748	688	1 188	77 063
2007	January	24 429	19 000	16 769	4 620	8 929	1 285	651	1 253	76 936
	February	25 636	21 510	18 221	5 138	9 625	1 463	771	1 376	83 740
	March	29 107	23 408	21 772	5 588	10 530	1 533	978	1 476	94 392
	April	23 245	18 833	16 907	4 616	8 701	1 214	883	1 215	75 614
	May	26 649	22 151	20 428	5 237	10 172	1 587	973	1 400	88 597
	June	31 965	25 491	24 997	6 152	11 995	1 750	1 107	1 640	105 097
	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
Seasonally adjusted
2006	August	24 152	20 301	17 460	4 979	9 550	1 436	801	1 195	79 874
	September	24 924	20 643	17 619	5 042	9 569	1 641	770	1 236	81 444
	October	24 965	20 489	17 890	4 859	9 661	1 660	841	1 211	81 576
	November	24 958	19 997	18 428	4 975	9 643	1 707	762	1 278	81 748
	December	25 051	20 331	18 607	4 832	9 801	1 402	798	1 253	82 075
2007	January	26 699	21 763	19 038	5 369	9 961	1 570	839	1 342	86 581
	February	25 937	22 193	19 084	5 182	10 057	1 710	827	1 398	86 388
	March	26 576	21 936	19 588	5 266	9 799	1 592	832	1 386	86 975
	April	26 285	21 295	19 175	5 227	9 965	1 546	842	1 412	85 747
	May	26 005	21 635	19 387	4 979	9 985	1 529	815	1 375	85 710
	June	26 824	22 241	19 263	5 078	10 055	1 587	822	1 385	87 255
	July	26 738	22 173	19 470	5 151	10 323	1 742	802	1 380	87 779
	August	26 494	22 384	18 481	5 051	10 271	1 480	825	1 383	86 369
	September	26 457	22 705	19 390	5 031	10 403	1 635	815	1 415	87 851
	October	27 394	22 436	19 616	5 266	10 264	1 630	856	1 394	88 856
Trend
2006	August	24 308	20 214	17 726	5 019	9 483	1 576	775	1 199	80 300
	September	24 561	20 267	17 836	4 964	9 574	1 582	787	1 212	80 783
	October	24 873	20 398	18 029	4 947	9 662	1 588	795	1 233	81 525
	November	25 232	20 637	18 302	4 986	9 744	1 595	803	1 262	82 561
	December	25 583	20 930	18 625	5 055	9 818	1 599	812	1 297	83 719
2007	January	25 883	21 244	18 926	5 126	9 869	1 592	819	1 333	84 792
	February	26 128	21 535	19 175	5 180	9 910	1 584	826	1 365	85 703
	March	26 308	21 737	19 315	5 199	9 942	1 582	830	1 385	86 298
	April	26 409	21 855	19 351	5 176	9 981	1 587	828	1 394	86 581
	May	26 445	21 922	19 309	5 132	10 037	1 590	824	1 393	86 652
	June	26 486	22 013	19 247	5 095	10 113	1 592	819	1 390	86 755
	July	26 579	22 176	19 205	5 084	10 198	1 597	819	1 389	87 047
	August	26 695	22 354	19 202	5 092	10 272	1 606	821	1 391	87 433
	September	26 807	22 504	19 226	5 109	10 331	1 615	826	1 394	87 812
	October	26 941	22 636	19 291	5 135	10 363	1 622	831	1 397	88 216
(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.