Toyota’s dominance of Australian new car sales continued in September with the Camry outpacing both Holden Commodore and Ford Falcon to be the best-selling locally-made vehicle and Corolla maintaining its position as our number one best-selling model.
Toyota Camry racked-up sales of 2,522 sales last month while Corolla sold 3,530 and, despite being outsold in the month by Hyundai i30 (4,490) and Mazda3 (3,588), year-to-date remains our best-selling model by a margin of more than 2,300 sales.
Overall new car sales in September totaled 101,392 – that’s 6.8 per-cent up on the corresponding month in 2014.
Year-to-date the total is 3.6 per-cent higher at 862,832.
Toyota’s total in September was 16,594 vehicles (a market share of 16.4 per-cent).
Number two for the month was Mazda (10,864) and Mazda also remains number two outright and the leading full-line importer with sales of 85,977 vehicles for the first nine months of the year.
Holden narrowly pipped Hyundai for the number three ranking in September with sales of 9,326 vehicles (9,311 for Hyundai) but year-to-date Hyundai is number three with its total of 77,426 sales delivering a market share of 9.0 per-cent.
Ford ranked sixth for the month with sales of 5,823 vehicles and is sixth overall year-to-date with a tally of 51,734 vehicles.
However Ford will be buoyed by the performance of the updated Ranger pickup which was our fifth best-selling vehicle in September – and number one best-selling pickup - with sales of 2,471 vehicles.
Of course Toyota has just launched the all-new HiLux so expect some massive changes in that market segment in coming months.
Top ten brands September 2015:
Toyota — 16,594
Mazda — 10,864
Holden — 9326
Hyundai — 9311
Mitsubishi — 6937
Ford — 5823
Nissan — 5242
Volkswagen — 5124
Subaru — 3621
Honda — 2595
Top ten models September 2015:
Hyundai i30 — 4490
Mazda 3 — 3588
Toyota Corolla — 3530
Toyota Camry — 2522
Ford Ranger — 2471
Holden Commodore — 2348 (2710 if you include Ute)
Mazda CX-5 — 2321
Mitsubishi Triton — 2020
Toyota HiLux — 2001
Volkswagen Golf — 1958
