Best selling cars in Australia
The usual suspects dominate the latest new car sales figures.
New year, same story.
The first month of new car sales figures of 2018 released by the federal chambers of automotive industries tells a very familiar story.
Toyota's HiLux was again the top selling vehicle with 3860 units moved, while the Ford Ranger was again second best with 3260 sales.
While no other dual-cab ute managed to make the top 10, the light commercial segment still enjoyed a strong start to the year with whole market up by just more than 20 per cent compared to the same month last year. This was due to several large improvements by the Nissan Navara, Mitsubishi Triton as well as the two sales leaders.
The Mazda3 (3201) took the early bragging rights in the passenger car stakes leading the Toyota Corolla (2776) and Hyundai i30 (1850).
Mazda's SUVs had a strong month with the mid-size Mazda CX-5 (2152) and CX-3 (1582) city SUV both appearing in the top 10 and topping the respective segments.
SUVs as whole had a strong month in January with a 10.9 per cent increase on last January, this continues the trend seen throughout the last few years as buyers shed traditional passenger cars in favour of high-riding wagons.
On the back of this strong growth were solid sales of the Toyota RAV4 (1780) and Nissan X-Trail (1668). Hyundai's Tucson (1420) and Honda CR-V (1474) were also both knocking on the door of the top 10 sellers.
The Volkswagen Golf (1629) improved its performance compared to January last year with almost 25 per cent more sales.
Two notable absentees from the first top 10 sellers of the year were two former locally-made stalwarts: the Holden Commodore and the Toyota Camry with each falling well short of 1000 sales with 871 and 754 registrations respectively.
Both large and medium car segments are down considerably which continues the decline of nthe traditional family car in Australia.
Luxury carmaker has mixed success in January with Mercedes-Benz and Lexus both up about 9 and 7 per cent respectively, but Audi was down by more than 20 per cent from last year, while BMW was flat.
Top selling vehicles January 2018
Toyota HiLux – 3860
Ford Ranger – 3260
Mazda3 – 3201
Toyota Corolla – 2776
Mazda CX-5 – 2152
Hyundai i30 – 1850
Toyota RAV4 – 1780
Nissan X-Trail – 1668
Volkswagen Golf – 1629
Mazda CX-3 – 1582
Top selling marques in 2018
Toyota – 15,306
Mazda – 10,113
Hyundai – 7124
Holden – 5719
Ford – 5645
Mitsubishi – 5263
Nissan – 4707
Honda – 4581
Kia – 4531
Subaru – 4253
Source: Federal chambers of automotive industries