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NEW MOTOR VEHICLE SALES

• Sales of new motor vehicles (trend) have declined for fifteen consecutive months in Western Australia after peaking at 10,381 in February 2008. In May 2009, new motor vehicles sales (8,055) were 2.4% lower than in February 2009 and 22% lower than in February 2008.
• This overall decline in motor vehicle sales in the three months to May 2009, was driven by continuing falls in the sale of passenger vehicles and utilities, vans, trucks, buses and other commercial vehicles.
• By contrast, sales of sports utility vehicles increased from 1,748 in February 2009 to 1,812 in May 2009 (3.7%), after falling over the previous year.

New Motor Vehicle Sales

2 New Motor Vehicle Sales, by type of vehicle: Trend
		Passenger vehicles	Sports utility vehicles	Other vehicles	Total vehicles
Month		no.	no.	no.	no.
Trend
2008
	March	5 492	2 243	2 597	10 332
	April	5 470	2 196	2 559	10 225
	May	5 446	2 133	2 509	10 088
	June	5 401	2 070	2 467	9 938
	July	5 307	2 018	2 448	9 772
	August	5 161	1 972	2 450	9 583
	September	4 995	1 926	2 450	9 371
	October	4 839	1 876	2 424	9 139
	November	4 701	1 818	2 356	8 875
	December	4 595	1 770	2 251	8 616
2009
	January	4 512	1 746	2 148	8 407
	February	4 440	1 748	2 068	8 256
	March	4 371	1 764	2 014	8 149
	April	4 308	1 785	1 980	8 073
	May	4 270	1 812	1 973	8 055
Source: Sales of New Motor Vehicles, Australia, cat. no. 9314.0.