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New Car Sales Figures April 2012

By Alborz Fallah
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April 2012 Australian New Car Sales Figures

1 Toyota 16,568
2 Mazda 7,681
3 Holden 7,589
4 Hyundai 7,017
5 Ford 6,306
6 Nissan 4,686
7 Volkswagen 3,798
8 Mitsubishi 3,748
9 Subaru 3,003
10 Kia 2,505
11 Honda 2,485
12 Mercedes-Benz 1,583
13 Suzuki 1,508
14 BMW 1,353
15 Jeep 1,286
16 Audi 901
17 Great Wall 836
18 Lexus 626
19 Land Rover 548
20 Peugeot 543
21 Isuzu Ute 439
22 Volvo 373
23 Renault 264
24 MINI 212
25 Skoda 208
26 Dodge 197
27 Ssangyong 154
28 Citroen 133
29 Chery 128
30 Porsche 106
31 Fiat 92
32 Alfa Romeo 86
33 Proton 66
34 Jaguar 45
35 Maserati 13
36 Saab 9
37 Aston Martin 8
38 Ferrari 8
39 Smart 7
40 Bentley 6
41 Chrysler 5
42 Lotus 5
43 Lamborghini 3
44 Rolls-Royce 2
45 Morgan 1
46 Caterham 0
47 Hummer 0

(units sold – market share)

Light Car Segment Winners :

  1. Toyota Yaris (1,380 – 13.9%)
  2. Mazda2 (1,305 – 13.2%)
  3. Honda Jazz (972 -9.8%)

Small Car Segment Winners:

  1. Mazda3 (3,005 – 18.1%)
  2. Toyota Corolla (2,573 – 15.5%)
  3. Holden Cruze (2,315 – 13.9%)

Medium Car Segment Winners:

  1. Toyota Camry (1,602 – 35.5%)
  2. Mercedes-Benz C-Class (630 – 41.8% of medium segment above 60k)
  3. Mazda6 (478 – 10.6%)

Large Car Segment Winners:

  1. Holden Commodore (2,248 – 54.5%)
  2. Ford Falcon (1,009 – 24.5%)
  3. Toyota Aurion (629 – 15.3%)

Upper Large Car Segment Winners:

  1. Holden Caprice (146 – 98.6% of upper large under 100k)
  2. Mercedes-Benz S-Class  (9 – 20.5% of upper large over 100k each)
  3. Porsche Panamera / Audi A8 - (8 – 18.2% of upper large over 100k each)

People Mover Segment Winners:

  1. Kia Carnival (271 – 34.8%)
  2. Hyundai iMAX (146 – 18.7%)
  3. Dodge Journey (116 – 14.9%)

Sports Segment Winners:

  1. Hyundai Veloster (297 – 25.8% of Sports cars under 80k)
  2. Mercedes-Benz C-Class Coupe (207 – 18% of Sports cars under 80k)
  3. BMW 1 Series Coupe/Conv (127 – 11.1% of Sports cars under 80k)

Supercars (200k+) Segment Winners:

  1. Porsche 911 (28 units – 30.1%)
  2. BMW 6 Series (16 units – 17.2%)
  3. Maserati (13 units – 14%)

SUV Small Segment Winners:

  1. Hyundai ix35 (971 – 22.4%)
  2. Volkswagen Tiguan (846 – 19.5%)
  3. Nissan Dualis (792 – 18.3%)

SUV Medium Segment Winners:

  1. Mazda CX-5 (1,413 – 21%)
  2. Subaru Forester (989 – 14.7%)
  3. Nissan X-Trail (957 – 14.2%)

SUV Large Segment Winners:

  1. Toyota Prado (1,725 – 22.8%)
  2. Ford Territory (1,076 – 14.2%)
  3. Toyota Kluger (1,047 – 13.8%)

SUV Upper Large Segment Winners:

  1. Toyota Landcruiser Wagon (817 – 81.2%)
  2. Nissan Patrol Wagon (189 – 18.8%)

Pickup 4×2 Segment Winners

  1. Toyota HiLux 4×2 (881 – 25%)
  2. Holden Utility 4×2 (627 – 17.8%)
  3. Ford Falcon Ute 4×2 (468 – 13.3%)

Pickup 4×4 Segment Winners

  1. Toyota Hilux 4×4 (2,684 – 24.9%)
  2. Nissan Navara 4×4 (1,484 – 16.6%)
  3. Mitsubishi Triton (1,041 – 11.6%)

 

  • jg

    Can anyone explain to me why the Territory cant be modified to have an open tray at rear and compete in the 4×4 pickup segment??

    • K20A

      It can. It’s called Falcon ute. If you’re looking something tougher, there’s Ranger.

      It does not make economic sense for Ford to do another pickup..

      • Quivive

        You can buy a 4wd Falcon ute?

  • Josef

    Sale figures for April…because under graphs shows March 2012

    • http://www.caradvice.com.au/ Alborz Fallah

      Thanks, fixed.

  • Andrew

    Bentley sold more cars than Lotus. Far out…..

  • Tatsiy

    Upper Large Car Segment Winners looks wierd. Percentage is not representitive.

    • http://www.caradvice.com.au/ Alborz Fallah

      the first is for cars under 100k the second two are for cars over 100k as detailed next to the figures.

  • KKK

    Saab sold 9! and why is CX-5 in a different segment compare to Tiguan?!

    • Noel

      All six of the vehicles in the small/medium SUV I would consider competitors, I think it seems strange too.

      • Ima_Hogg

        Same here I was wondering that.

    • MisterZed

      So what?  You do realise that Saab hasn’t produced a car in over a year?

  • Giant

    Sports Segment Winners:
    Hyundai Veloster (297 – 25.8% of Sports cars under 80k)
    … that makes no sense.

    • Legnab

      YES i thought that was weird , need a new segment for ” faux drivers cars ” .

      • Robin_Graves

        Aw whats wrong Bung-hole?  Got some sand in your VAG? I think we also need a new segment “poser faux prestige cars that love tow trucks”

        • Giant

          The Veloster is clearly light car or small car. It has three doors and a hatch. Coupes and roadsters are sports cars. And even that is a stretch given the porky cruiser coupes than are on the market.

          Sports cars are MX5s and Boxters etc

          • John

            Elise

          • Legnab

            Well said GIANT , and when the turbo vileoster turns up put that in the same ” faux drivers car “category , like the old celica girly try hard sports

          • http://www.caradvice.com.au/ Alborz Fallah

            we simply use the same categorisation as the official VFACTs data that is used by the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries. 

          • Giant

            The Veloster doesn’t even meet the VFACT definition of sports car

            “Sports
            Design – coupe; convertible. 2&4 door
            Engine; 3 – 12 cyl.
            Seating; 2/4 seat”

            I realise this isn’t a caradvice.com.au fail. But VFACT data would be more helpful if it wasn’t so poorly thought out. The data is showing an increase in ‘sports car’ sales purely on the back of the non-sports-car Veloster. Misleading much?

  • Dave S

    The Hilux gets 2 segments. 4×2 ute and 4×4 ute. Both add to the overall hilux tally. If we add Commodore ute sales to the Commodore sales, it picks up 3rd place and not 5th.

    Ute sales would have also kept the Commodre at number 1 last too

  • http://twitter.com/holotropik Holotropik

    Small medium SUV class is wonky.

  • AOK

    In South Australia, State Registration has my 2011 MX-5 down as a SEDAN and so too my 09 RX-8 as a SEDAN!…go figure

  • Gibwater

    Its curious how Mazda3,Corolla and Cruze are still listed as small cars.If they existed in their current form thirty years ago,they would have been called medium.Yaris,Mazda2 and Swift are the real small cars now.You guys need to head down to Bunnings to purchase a tape measure.