Toyota’s dominance of Australian new car sales couldn’t be clearer – the Japanese giant selling 72 per-cent more cars than anyone else in October with 18,128 moving out the doors of Toyota dealers in the month.
Second-best Holden racked-up October sales of 10,528.
Toyota Corolla has exceeded 3,000 sales for each of the past nine months and continues to be Australia’s best-selling car (1,506 ahead of Mazda3).
While Toyota has delivered more than 176,900 cars to customers so far this year, no other company has cracked a total in excess of 100,000.
Mazda’s record-breaking run continued in October with monthly sales of 7,967 to stand number three overall although Hyundai did better with October sales of 8,130 (Hyundai is fourth overall).
Ford is in fifth place and accounted for 7,486 sales in October.
While the industry total in October (92,603) is 3.1 per-cent down on October 2012, year-to-date as at the end of October, total Australian new car sales of 942,547 is 2.6 per-cent up on last year.
