Total sales for the first seven months of the year are up 1.6 per cent year on year.

Toyota remained comfortably Australia’s best-selling brand. Followed by BYD, Ford, Kia and Mazda.

The next top five brands are Hyundai, GWM, Chery, Mitsubishi and MG.

SUVs remain the most popular choice of vehicle and Utes are still a buyer favourite.

Toyota RAV 4 was the top selling model followed by two Utes.

Hybrids, PHEVs continue to grow in popularity and pure EVs are having a moment on the sun.

What we are seeing is a shift in buyer choices.

For those that have been around for a while and can remember when Japanese brands first started to be imported, the quality wasn’t the best, they improved. The same with the Korean brands, the original Hyundai excels were terrible, they improved. We are seeing this with the Chinese brands that are making rapid progress in quality.

They are starting to dominate the smaller EV and Hybrid sales. The shift to EVs levels the engineering playing field a touch, where engine tuning becomes irrelevant.

Where the Chinese brands have the real advantage is price. The next five months are going to be very interesting indeed.

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Its was year end so government incentives for electric vehicles played a part. Also, BYD had a surge in recorded sales as a result of increased supply. They have their own ship bringing cars to Australia.

Tesla also had a record month in sales.

These three events have seen the level of EV sales reach a bit over 20%. Only time will tell if this is a blip or a more permanent shift in consumer demand.

Toyota remained the top brand for June, but it was followed closely by BYD., Who are now running second for the YTD as well.

Ford, Kia and Mazda follow them. The next five brands are Hyundai, GWM, Chery, Mitsubishi and MG.

Of the top ten selling vehicles in June  3 were Utes and the rest were SUVs.

China is now the largest source of vehicles for the market. With about 35% of sales. Something that seemed a remote possibility even a few years ago.

With new models and even new brands coming in the next six months, we are in for a very interesting second half of the year.

I do think that EV sales will fall back a bit during that time and settle around 15% of sales, but time will tell.

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Of these some 21,000 were electric cars. This 20% surge has been driven by panic buying by the recent petrol pricing. YTD EVs account for about 14% of deliveries.

Overall petrol remain the dominant fuel choice followed by diesel then hybrids and PHEVS, then EVs.

SUVs continue their dominance followed by LCV, however there is a slight decline in Ute sales.

Toyota continues its run as number one brand but with 16% market share compared to 20% at the same time last year.

The next five are Kia, BYD, Mazda and Ford. The next top five brands are Hyundai, GWM, Mitsubishi, Cherry and MG.

BYD was the second top selling brand in May, and it continues its meteoric rose with new models and increasing buyer popularity.

Its plain to see the growing influence Chinese brands are having on consumer demands.

Of the top ten models three were Utes and the rest were SUVs.

Again, delving deep into the past and trying to remember bits of my economics degree. Falling sales, with increasing brand supply spells trouble for some brands.

It seems that every month a new Chinese brand launches, and eventually not all brands will find that sustainable.

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SUVs remain the most popular vehicle delivered with about 60% of the total. Next are the LCV’s which includes Utes and Vans with about 23%, passenger cars continue to slide in popularity.

Petrol remains the dominant fuel with 40%, diesel comes next with 30%. Hybrid and PHEV are growing in popularity with a combined 20% and EV continue to drop with about 5% of deliveries.

The top selling vehicle in July was the Toyota HiLux. Of the top ten vehicles three were Utes, six were SUV’s and one, the Toyota Corolla, is a passenger car.

Toyota remains the market leader with almost a 20% share. They are followed by Mazda, Ford, Kia Hyundai. The next five are Mitsubishi, GWM, BYD, Isuzu Ute and MG. This reflect the changing nature of the market with three Chinese brands in there.

The results show that despite the Government trying to push the EV agenda, buyers will buy what suits them. And clearly Hybrids are a popular solution. Given the vast distances many vehicles travel in Australia, EVs clearly are an unacceptable choice. They are good for inner city dwellers, but basically anywhere outside the cities they are unworkable.

With the NVES penalties staring in July, the remaining months will prove interesting.

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There are a number of interesting signs that arise, and we will have a chat about a few of them this week.

In June, dealers delivered a touch under 120,000 new vehicles, marking a 4.2% decline compared to June last year. So far this year, they have delivered 632,412 vehicles, resulting in a year-to-date increase of 8.7 percent compared to last year and surpassing the previous record set in 2018.

BEV sales slumped while hybrid and PHEV sales showed a significant increase.

Petrol remains the dominant fuel source followed by diesel.

The top selling vehicle in June was the Ford Ranger followed by the HiLux.

Of the top ten selling vehicles in June:

• three were Utes,
• Five were SUVs and
• two were passenger cars.

Toyota remains the top selling brand with almost 20%. They are followed by Ford, Mazda, Kia and Mitsubishi. The next top five brands are Hyundai, Isuzu Ute, Nissan, MG and Tesla.

The market is still heavily influenced by supply availability and filling back orders.

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A lot of this is filling existing back orders as supply is starting free up globally.

This is on the back of a record July as well.

Toyota is still the number one brand with twice as many sales as Mazda which is number two. The other top ten brands YTD are Ford, Kia Hyundai. Followed by Mitsubishi, MG, Tesla, Subaru and Isuzu Ute.

Of the top ten vehicles sold in August three were Utes, five were SUVs, one passenger car and one electric car. Toyota HiLux remains the top selling vehicle YTD.

SUVs account for about 56% of sales and are still growing. Light commercial vehicles about 22%, passenger cars about 18% and the rest in heavy vehicles.

Petrol remain the most popular fuel of choice followed by diesel. These two make up over 80% of sales YTD. Hybrid and PHEV vehicles are growing. Fully electric cars are about 7% Of YTD sales.

The interesting statistic is that Toyota is starting to turn around the sales slump as supply comes in. Also Tesla and MG are still sitting in the top ten brands.

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New vehicle sales achieved the highest August result on record as Australian customers took delivery of 109,966 new vehicles, a 15.4 per cent increase on the same period in 2022.

FCAI Chief Executive Tony Weber said back-to-back months of record-breaking new car sales was positive news for car manufacturers and consumers.

“The Australian automotive sector continues to demonstrate its strength, with August recording unprecedented sales figures, reflecting both a high level of demand from Australians and improved supply of vehicles.

“Year-to-date sales have increased 9.9 per cent which is a better indicator of the underlying strength of the market.” Mr Weber said.

Mr Weber added that electric vehicles accounted for 6.4 per cent of sales and hybrid vehicles accounted for 10.5 per cent of sales in August.

“As consumers continue to embrace low emissions technologies we are seeing growth in electric, plug-in and hybrid vehicle sales. More than 1 in 6 vehicles sold in the month of August featured low emissions technologies.”

Car Sales by State

Sales across every State and Territory increased this month compared with August 2022.   Australian Capital Territory sales by 21.5 per cent (1,713); New South Wales 13.6 per cent (34,655); Queensland 7.8 per cent (23,049); South Australia 21.9 per cent (6,952); Tasmania 14.4 per cent (1,843); Victoria 16.3 per cent (29,126); Western Australia 32.5 per cent (11,637) and Northern Territory 21.4 per cent (991).

Sales by Brand

Toyota was the highest selling marque with 22,321 sales. Mazda followed with 8,458 then Ford (7,898), Hyundai (6,513) and Kia (6,510).

The Toyota Hi-Lux was the top selling vehicle recording 5,762 sales.  It was followed by Ford Ranger (5,760), Toyota RAV4 (3,317), Isuzu Ute D-Max (3,281) and MG ZS (3,193).

Summary by Class:

• The August 2023 market of 109,966 new vehicle sales is an increase of 14,710
  vehicle sales or 15.4% against August 2022 (95,256). There were 26.8 selling days
  in both August 2023 and August 2022 and this resulted in an increase of 548.9 vehicle sales per day.
• The Passenger Vehicle Market is down by 661 vehicle sales (-3.3%) over the same month last year; the Sports Utility Market is up by 13,742 vehicle sales
  (28.3%); the Light Commercial Market is up by 1,559 vehicle sales (6.9%) and the Heavy Commercial Vehicle Market is up by 70 vehicle sales (1.7%) versus
  August 2022.
• Toyota was market leader in August, followed by Mazda and Ford. Toyota led Mazda with a margin of 13,863 vehicle sales and 12.6 market share points.

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