One Million Vehicles Sold in 12 Months
July 5, 2007 by Alborz Fallah
This is going to be the year that Australians will buy one million new vehicles. In the last 12 months (financial year), Australians have bought 1,004,097 vehicles according to retail sales figures released today by the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI).
Unfortunately for environmentalists hoping for slow car sales, the last six years has seen enormous growth for the industry. FCAI’s chief executive, Andrew McKellar believes the success is not just a result of a few leading brands.
“This is an outstanding result for the Australian motor industry, the success is broadly based and includes almost every brand and vehicle segment.” he said
While the large car segment is not growing at the same pace as the Light, Small and Medium passenger car segments, Mr McKellar is far from calling it a slow down. In addition, the Large car segment was up 3.7 per cent and Upper Large segment which was up 28.3 per cent.
Toyota was agains ranked first last month, selling 24,539 vehicles. Holden held second place with 14,256 and Ford third with 10,304.
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Geez the government must be wrapped rubbing their hands together! I wonder how many speeding tickets will be issued on another million cars? What the government should do is lower the stamp duty and encourage more people to buy as the more cars on the road the more speeding fines etc to issue ? OH Hang on how could i be so silly THEY ALREADY HAVE LOWERED STAMP DUTY Hmmmmmmmm
Not sure if that has anything to do with it 280zx. This surge in NEW CAR sales doesnt necessarily mean more cars on the road (and more fines), it could just mean more people buying new > old, with used car dealerships etc having more older cars on hand which aernt being bought. A statistic to back up what your saying would be the number of cars registered… or something along those lines.
No worries Mr Paul Bracks because obviously you know whats going on! So hang on what your saying is that out of the 1 million cars sold none of them will hit the road??? Okay have you thought about the current unemployment rate in Australia and how now a lot of young people are working and can afford new cars? But of course none of them are going to drive them going by what your saying? Maybe im not reading it properly or something but just clarify for me if you will the comment ” This surge in NEW CAR sales doesnt necessarily mean more cars on the road ”
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280zx, vehicles registered is more meaningful – if 1 million cars went in this last year, then unless there are 1 million more cars each year on the road, there will be cars being junked each year which won’t be caught speeding.
Interesting numbers:
Toyota: 18,649
Holden: 14,256
Ford: 10,304
Mitsubishi: 8,192
Mazda: 6,932
Corolla: 5,890
Nissan: 5,845
Honda: 5,750
Hyundai: 5,023
Subaru: 4,085
To the editing committee: Spelling error – “Toyota was agains ranked first last month” – should be *again*.
I can’t believe that many people buy Corollas, even if 40% of them were fleets, that is still 3534 private sales. Durablity, reliability and safety, other cars offer that too people, some even offer more.
Funny how they include fleet sales. I know with motorcycle sales they exclude things like Australia Post buying thousands of Honda CT110’s.
Cheers
Steve
Alright Steve thats the last straw buddy you leave the Honda CT110 alone its a fantastic peice of machinery and i love it … Haaaa LOL
The picture of the post…is that the hatchback version of Corolla? Here in Argentina we only know the sedan 4-doors version so i don’t know we need to import more cars :(
Nice blog by the way :D