Australian bought 92,964 new vehicles in November – that’s 1423 less than November last year. Nevertheless, records are being smashed across numerous brands.
Toyota retains market leadership with November sales of 18,098 which is 72 per-cent higher than second-best Holden (10,477). For Toyota though, a major breakthrough with Corolla in an unbeatable position to finish 2013 as Australia’s best-selling individual model – incredibly the first time a Toyota vehicle has achieved this feat in Australia.
Likewise unbeatable is Toyota Camry which will round-out the year as our best-selling mid-size sedan for the 20th consecutive year.
In November, Toyota’s Corolla, Camry, 86, LandCruiser 200, HiLux 4x2 and 4x4, Hi-Ace van and bus all topped their segments as the Japanese giant edged towards a 100,000 vehicle lead over Holden in year-to-date figures.
Hyundai was the third best-selling brand in November with total sales of 8530 vehicles. This was Hyundai’s best-ever November figure, 10 per-cent up on November 2012 and the 18th consecutive month of year-on-year sales growth for the Korean giant.
However it seems unlikely Hyundai will knock-off Mazda to score number three overall in 2013 and the rank as Australia’s leading full-line importer. Mazda sold 8399 vehicles in November which is up by 5.4 per-cent and both CX-5 and BT50 both set new sales records and have already exceeded their 2012 totals.
Mazda says the Mazda3 will just narrowly miss-out on beating Toyota Corolla in the race to be Australia’s best-selling nameplate in 2013.
Other November record-breakers included Subaru which recorded its best-ever monthly total of 4232 sales (Forester alone was 67.7 per-cent up) and Fiat-Chrysler which delivered more than 3,000 sales for the fourth month in a row, has already surpassed 30,000 sales for the year (first time ever) and within those figures its Italian brand Alfa Romeo is enjoying its best sales since 2003.
Mazda Australia boss Martin Benders told CarShowroom.com.ay his prediction for the industry total for 2013 will be 1.13-million sales which, if achieved will mean local new car sales will be around 2.0 per-cent up over 2012.
