SUVs and light commercial vehicles accounted for 76.8 per cent of sales in April. Passenger vehicles accounted for 18.5 per cent, and heavy commercial 4.7 per cent.

Month to month sales often reflect when shipments arrive and along those lines Tesla has reported a good month, which has increased the overall EV sales.

Toyota is still the dominant brand but its slipping in some key areas and the difference between them and Mazda has dropped substantially. Mazda’s market share has also dropped slightly.

Following these two are Kia, Ford and Hyundai. Next is Mitsubishi, MG, Tesla, Subaru, and Isuzu Ute.

Ford Ranger was the number one model, not because they sold more than last year, but HiLux sales dropped by some 21% and RAV4 sales, the number three model has dropped by almost 35%. Is it supply constraints or is the era of Toyota Dominance in the Australian Market changing.

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More April Car Sales details

Australia’s automotive industry delivered 82,137 vehicles during April 2023, which represents a 1.3 per cent increase on the same period in 2022.

“Electric vehicles accounted for 8 per cent of sales in April. This is well up from 1.1 per cent compared with April 2022. If you take all forms of electrification, that number has increased from 9.5 per cent to 15.4 per cent, and we know that this number would have been larger had the industry not faced global supply challenges,” FCAI Chief Executive Tony Weber said.

“It is worth noting that five out of the top ten models sold in April offer some form of electrification.”

Car sales by segment

SUVs and light commercial vehicles accounted for 76.8 per cent of sales in April. Passenger vehicles accounted for 18.5 per cent, and heavy commercial 4.7 per cent.

Government and Business fleet sales increased by 8.1 per cent and 2.9 per cent respectively. Rental sales recorded a decline of 11.4 per cent.

Year to date, sales of vehicles sourced from China have increased 68.5 per cent with 13,426 vehicles sold in April. Japan remains Australia’s largest source of vehicles (22,304). Thailand is our second largest (15,886) and Korea fourth (12,952).

Sales in the ACT increased by 5 per cent compared to the same month last year, with 1,261 vehicles sold; Queensland, 4.4 per cent (18,188); Victoria, 4.2 per cent (22,226); and Western Australia, 5.2 per cent (8,303).

Sales in New South Wales decreased by 1.5 per cent (25,040); Northern Territory, 10.3 per cent (761); and Tasmania, 13.3 per cent (1,271).

Toyota led the market with 12,029 vehicles, then Mazda (6,926), Kia (6,200), Hyundai (5,732) and Ford (5,047).

The Ford Ranger was the highest selling model with 3,567 sales, followed by Toyota Hi-Lux 3,526, Toyota RAV4 (2,198), Tesla Model Y (2095) and Hyundai i30 (2,029).

Key Points:

• The April 2023 market of 82,137 new vehicle sales. Is an increase of 1,072 vehicle sales or 1.3% against April 2022 (81,065). There were 22 selling days in April 2023. Compared to 23 in April 2022 and this resulted in an increase of 208.9 vehicle sales per day.
• The Passenger Vehicle Market is down by 253 vehicle sales (-1.6%) over the same month last year.
• The Sports Utility Market is up by 3,661 vehicle sales (8.6%)
• The Light Commercial Market is down by 2,576 vehicle sales (-13.1%) and
• The Heavy Commercial Vehicle Market is up by 240 vehicle sales (6.6%) versus April 2022.
• Toyota was market leader in April, followed by Mazda and Kia. Toyota led Mazda with a margin of 5,103 vehicle sales and 6.2 market share points.

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This early in the year sales figures are distorted by back orders and ships arriving. Trends are difficult to spot.

However, the top selling vehicle for the month was the new Ford Ranger, followed closely by the HiLux.

In the top ten vehicles 3 were Utes, 6 were SUV’s and one a passenger car.

SUVs continue their growth with over 55% of the sales followed by LCV with about 22%

Petrol is still the dominant fuel source with over 52% of sales followed by diesel with 31% and EVs account for 5%.

Some brands like Audi have had an almost 75% increase in sales and some like BMW are down 6% om YTD from last year.

Toyota again was the top selling brand followed closely by Mazda, then Ford, Kia and Hyundai. Mitsubishi, MG and Subaru are the next three. Tesla makes a surprise appearance at number 9 then Isuzu Ute round out the top ten brands.

It will be an interesting year.

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Key Points

• The January 2023 market of 84,873 new vehicle sales is an increase of 9,010
  vehicle sales or 11.9% against January 2022 (75,863). There were 24 selling days
  in both January 2023 and January 2022, resulting in an increase of 375.4 vehicle sales per day.
• The Passenger Vehicle Market is up by 865 vehicle sales (5.5%) over the same month last year; the Sports Utility Market is up by 7,101 vehicle sales
  (17.9%); the Light Commercial Market is up by 287 vehicle sales (1.6%) and the Heavy Commercial Vehicle Market is up by 757 vehicle sales (33.3%) versus
  January 2022.
• Toyota was market leader in January, followed by Mazda and Ford. Toyota led Mazda with a margin of 3,956 vehicle sales and 4.6 market share points.

More January Car sales notes

Australia’s automotive industry delivered 84,873 vehicles during the first month of 2023, which represents a 11.9 per cent increase on the same period in 2022.

“This data is the best January result since 2018 and shows that the industry is continuing to recover following years of supply chain disruption and delay,” FCAI Chief Executive Tony Weber said.

The Tesla Model 3 was the third highest selling car in the market. This is the first time a pure battery electric model has been ranked so highly. In addition, the MG ZS, which includes battery electric variants, and the Mitsubishi Outlander which includes plug-in hybrid variants were also in the top 10.

Sales of battery electric, hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles accounted for 12.28 per cent (10,426) with battery electric vehicles representing 5.71 per cent (4,852).

Sales were up across all buyer types. Private sales increased by 8.6 per cent; business (13.6 per cent), government (0.5 per cent) and rentals (31.9 per cent).

The consumer preference for larger vehicles has continued, with sales of SUVs (46,698) and Light Commercial vehicles (18,546) accounting for 76.9 per cent of total vehicles sold.

Sales across all States and Territories were up.

• ACT increased by 18.6 per cent with 1,394 vehicles sold;
• New South Wales, 15 per cent (26,484);
• Queensland, 14.3 per cent (18,766);
• South Australia, 11.9 per cent (5,786);
• NT, 7.8 per cent (665);
• Victoria, 9.7 per cent (22,367);
• Western Australia 4.3 per cent (7,901) and
• Tasmania, 2.9 per cent (1,510).

Toyota led the market with a total of 13,363 vehicles sold.  Mazda was second with 9,407, followed by Ford (6,624), Kia (6,006) and Hyundai (5,809).

The Ford Ranger was the highest selling model with 4,749 sales reported. Toyota’s Hi-Lux followed with 4,131. Tesla’s Model 3 was third with 2,927 followed by Mazda’s CX-3 (2,417) and Mazda’s CX-5 (2,189).

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