New Car sales YTD June 2025 results

New Car Sales – The new car sales results for the first half of the year have been released. All up there have been a touch over 600,000 sales so far. Given the economic climate this is a good result.

There are a couple of interesting trends. The first is that the true effect of the punitive NVES legislation hasn’t come into play yet.

Second is that Australians still love their Utes with the top four vehicles reported sold for June being Utes. Along side that the love affair with SUVs continues with the remaining 6 vehicles being from that category.

Next is the continuing emergence of mainstream Chinese brands. GWM, BYD and MG are all in the top ten brands.

Pure EV sales continue to decline and now sit at about 6% of total sales. Hybrids and PHEVs on the other hand continue to grow and with about 20% of total sales.

Toyota remains the dominant brand with a touch under 20% market share. Mazda, Ford, Kia, and Hyundai follow them. The next top five brands reflect changing consumer behaviour, They are Mitsubishi, GWM, BYD, Isuzu Ute and MG.

Petrol remains the dominant fuel choice followed by diesel then Hybrids.

SUVs also remain the dominant choice with about 60% of sales, followed by LCVs which includes Utes. Then passenger cars, which are declining every month.

Now that the draconian NVES penalties will apply from July 1 I think that the year-end results will reflect a different mix of vehicles.

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