Monthly Statistical Bulletin
4.2 Motor vehicle sales
Month	2007–08	2008–09	2009–10	2010–11	2011–12
Number (a) (b)
July	53 685	50 409	45 406	47 373	46 903
August	52 239	47 817	45 995	47 241	47 586
September	51 919	47 372	46 728	48 146	47 060
October	52 485	46 029	47 061	47 041	48 441
November	53 608	44 671	47 609	48 324	46 615
December	54 139	45 382	47 067	51 372	46 596
January	53 575	44 904	48 726	47 645
February	52 183	43 699	49 343	46 948
March	52 924	41 525	49 423	47 503
April	52 014	41 688	53 701	47 137
May	51 951	44 125	51 894	43 653
June	51 607	45 144	50 249	44 895
Annual	631 813	542 775	582 079	566 256
Annual change (b) – per cent
July	7.7	-6.1	-9.9	4.3	-1.0
August	2.0	-8.5	-3.8	2.7	0.7
September	1.3	-8.8	-1.4	3.0	-2.3
October	2.5	-12.3	2.2	0.0	3.0
November	5.0	-16.7	6.6	1.5	-3.5
December	5.4	-16.2	3.7	9.1	-9.3
January	1.0	-16.2	8.5	-2.2
February	-3.4	-16.3	12.9	-4.9
March	-2.7	-21.5	19.0	-3.9
April	0.0	-19.9	28.8	-12.2
May	-1.1	-15.1	17.6	-15.9
June	-2.8	-12.5	11.3	-10.7
Annual	1.2	-14.1	7.2	-2.7
(a) Sales of new motor cars, station wagons and people movers.
(b) Monthly figures are seasonally adjusted.
Source: ABS, Sales of new motor vehicles, Cat. no. 9314.0								Update
								15 February 2012