October New Car Sales Toyota Number One But Hyundai Secures Number Two Ranking

Toyota’s all-new HiLux was Australia’s best-selling vehicle in October (3,339 sales), Corolla was the second-best (3,271 sales) as Australia’s leading automotive brand moved more than 72,000 sales ahead of its nearest rival with 166,617 vehicles sold so far this year.

But Hyundai scored the number two position for the month with sales of 9,003 vehicles – just 471 ahead of third-placed Mazda (8,532 sales).

The Hyundai i30 was our third best-selling individual model with October sales of 2,669.

Year-to-date Mazda is still number two with sales for the first 10 months of 94,509 which is 8,072 ahead of Hyundai’s tally of 86,429.

Holden was number four in October (8,088) and maintains fourth position overall with a year-to-date total of 84,916.

Ford had a strong October to be ranked number five with sales of 6,098 vehicles. Year-to-date Ford is our sixth best-selling brand with sales of 57,832 vehicles.

Overall, new car sales in October were 3.4 per-cent up on the corresponding month last year and year-to-date the total is 3.6 per-cent up on 2015 and we could yet beat the all-time sales record of 1,136,227 sales established in 2013.

October 2015 Australian New Car Sales Figures

1	Toyota	16,964
2	Hyundai	9,003
3	Mazda	8,532
4	Holden	8,088
5	Ford	6,098
6	Nissan	5,961
7	Mitsubishi	5,508
8	Volkswagen	4,480
9	Subaru	4,112
10	Honda	3,261
11	Kia	2,867
12	Mercedes-Benz	2,619
13	Audi	2,030
14	BMW	2,001
15	Isuzu Ute	1,760
16	Suzuki	1,510
17	Jeep	1,505
18	Land Rover	1,072
19	Lexus	863
20	Renault	798
21	Volvo Car	469
22	Skoda	412
23	Porsche	361
24	Peugeot	332
25	MINI	263
26	Fiat	195
27	Jaguar	161
28	Fiat Professional	135
29	Alfa Romeo	114
30	LDV	105
31	Foton Light	96
32	Ssangyong	77
33	Chrysler	73
34	Citroen	69
35	Dodge	63
36	Infiniti	42
37	Maserati	40
38	Proton	35
39	Aston Martin	15
40	Ferrari	9
41	Bentley	8
42	Chery	7
43	Great Wall	6
44	Smart	4
45	Lotus	3
46	Morgan	2
47	Lamborghini	1
48	Caterham	0
49	McLaren	0
50	Opel	0
51	Rolls-Royce	0

Top 10 models October 2015:

1. Toyota HiLux — 3339
2. Toyota Corolla — 3271
3. Hyundai i30 — 2669
4. Ford Ranger — 2597
5. Mazda 3 — 2582
6. Holden Commodore — 2243
7. Toyota Camry — 2141
8. Mazda CX-5 — 2037
9. Volkswagen Golf — 1733
10. Toyota RAV4 — 1685