Monthly Statistical Bulletin
4.2 Motor vehicle sales
Month	2005–06	2006–07	2007–08	2008–09	2009–10
Number (a) (b)
July	50 648	49 810	53 573	50 087	45 365
August	51 702	50 988	52 003	47 534	45 711
September	51 395	51 215	51 747	47 262	46 507
October	49 640	51 035	52 357	46 096	47 217
November	51 070	50 934	53 601	44 523	47 681
December	49 428	51 350	54 182	45 409	46 874
January	49 668	53 094	53 370	44 920	48 762
February	49 812	54 006	52 236	43 524
March	49 046	54 300	53 188	41 330
April	50 404	52 744	52 517	42 779
May	49 596	52 439	51 963	44 076
June	47 502	53 412	51 858	45 081
Annual	599 360	624 124	631 813	542 775
Annual change (b) – per cent
July	7.4	-1.7	7.6	-6.5	-9.4
August	7.1	-1.4	2.0	-8.6	-3.8
September	4.2	-0.4	1.0	-8.7	-1.6
October	-7.1	2.8	2.6	-12.0	2.4
November	0.8	-0.3	5.2	-16.9	7.1
December	1.3	3.9	5.5	-16.2	3.2
January	-2.2	6.9	0.5	-15.8	8.6
February	-4.6	8.4	-3.3	-16.7
March	-3.9	10.7	-2.0	-22.3
April	-1.3	4.6	-0.4	-18.5
May	-2.7	5.7	-0.9	-15.2
June	-6.3	12.4	-2.9	-13.1
Annual	-0.8	4.1	1.2	-14.1
(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
								22 March 2010