Shrugging-off the industry agreement to withhold monthly sales results until release of the official VFACTS new car registration figures, Nissan is claiming its best July since becoming a full-line importer.
Nissan may get a “Please Explain” letter from the Canberra-based Federal Chamber Of Automotive Industries for ‘jumping the gun’ in claiming its internal numbers point to 6,148 sales in July.
But as that figure is 18 per-cent better than its July 2011 result and represents Nissan’s best July sales since the company became a full-line importer, well we can understand the Nissan team is a pumped!
Nissan’s three star models Navara, X-TRAIL and Dualis – all posted record July sales. In fact, when the official VFACTS sales figures are released, Nissan reckons its British-built Dualis crossover, a Car Showroom ‘favourite’, will show July 2011 sales which are 75 per cent up on the same month last year.
All of this in a month which is usually a ‘dud’ following the annual sales spike for the end of the Financial Year in June.
“After a highly impressive end to the Australian financial year, we have again earned our ‘unfair share’ for July, a traditionally slow sales month,” revealed Nissan Australia chief Bill Peffer. “To continue such impressive growth in a competitive market is a credit to our hard working people right across the country.”
