News8 hours ago3 min readVFACTS: Medium SUVs poised to overtake small cars…News8 hours ago3 min readVFACTS: Medium SUVs poised to overtake small cars…
News14th Apr 20186 min read2018 Q1 car sales: Winners and losers…Mike CostelloWith industry sales results for the first quarter (Q1) of 2018 available, now is a good time to look at the five car brands showing the highest numerical growth Down Under, and the five that have gone hardest in the other direction. One bad or good month may be a flash in the pan, but a full quarter of any calendar year is long enough to start picking trends. With the overall car market up 4.4 per cent this year over 2017’s all-time record, many OEMs should be happy. …
News6th Apr 20182 min readChina's LDV and MG making inroads…Mike CostelloSales of China-made new vehicles in Australia have risen 64 per cent to 1727 units over the first quarter of 2018. For context, Q1 sales of Italian-built vehicles were 1032, while 940 Swedish-built cars found a home. The figure for China-made cars almost topped the number sourced from France (1782). The biggest sources of imports were Japan (89,614), Thailand (77,746) and Korea (42,934). …
News23rd Mar 20181 min readAston Martin seeing "extraordinary swing" toward female buyers…News23rd Mar 20181 min readAston Martin seeing "extraordinary swing" toward female buyers…
News5th Mar 20183 min readVFACTS: February 2018 new vehicle sales…Scott CollieThe Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) is reporting a 7.8 per cent year-on-year increase in sales and registrations for February. VFACTS data released today reveals 95,999 cars were sold in the shortest month of the year, compared to 89,025 for the same period last year. Sales for 2018 are sitting on 184,550 – up 10,615 sales or 6.1 per cent on the same time in 2017. …
News5th Feb 20182 min readHonda Australia leaps into 2018, up 32 per cent…Mike CostelloWe’re only one sales month into 2018, but if the most-improved brand award were to be dished out now, then a revitalised Honda would be the runaway winner. The company’s sales grew 32 per cent for the month compared to January 2017’s tally, a growth rate eight-times the market average. Sticking on that theme, it finished eighth overall in-market, between Nissan and Kia. …
