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New car buyers have turned to Sport Utility Vehicles in record numbers, according to the official sales figures released yesterday by the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries.
So far this year the small SUV brigade – including such popular vehicles as the Nissan Dualis, Mitsubishi ASX, Volkswagen's Tiguan and Hyundai ix35 – has grown at an unprecedented rate of 31 per cent. Australians bought 23,845 SUVs of all types last month.
Small SUV sales have not come at the expense of the larger models - the medium, large and upper large SUVs all continue to record twenty-plus per cent growth.
SUVs have sold 177,100 units this year – or just 20,000 vehicles short of the SUV tally for 2007, which was the record year for vehicle sales. The segment is on track to top 305,000 sales.
The FCAI also says SUVs are being bought by both private and business customers. Diesel engines are the powerplant of choice.
The sales data shows a 59.9 per cent growth in private diesel SUVs and a 36.3 per cent in non-private sales.
One brand that has strong SUV sales to thank is Toyota - Australia's executive director sales and marketing Matthew Callachor said strong performances from Toyota's SUVs helped lift Toyota's sales tally by 26.2 per cent this year.
"Toyota SUVs sales rose by a massive 58 per cent July-on-July, led by Prado which more than doubled its year-ago result,'' he says.
| TOP 10 BRANDS JULY 2012 & share | YTD 2012 | Share |
| Toyota (123,815 19.5%) | 17,780 | 20.5% |
| Holden (65,119 10.3%) | 8936 | 10.3% |
| Mazda (60,084 9.5%) | 7951 | 9.2% |
| Hyundai (52,913 8.3%) | 7607 | 8.8% |
| Ford (50,333 7.9%) | 6903 | 8.0% |
| Nissan (46,034 7.3%) | 6155 | 7.1% |
| Volkswagen (30,930 4.9%) | 3964 | 4.6% |
| Mitsubishi (34,567 5.4%) | 3428 | 4.0% |
| Subaru (24,364 3.8%) | 3023 | 3.5% |
| Honda (19,022 3.0%) | 2869 | 3.3% |
| TOP 10 MODELS | JULY 2012 | (2012 YTD) |
| Toyota HiLux | 4163 | 23,575 |
| Mazda3 | 3355 | 25,168 |
| Toyota Corolla | 2985 | 22,011 |
| Holden Commodore | 2399 | 18,259 |
| Nissan Navara | 2164 | 15,344 |
| Hyundai i30 | 2045 | 16,045 |
| Holden Cruze | 1875 | 18,312 |
| Toyota Camry | 1775 | 12,723 |
| Ford Ranger | 1688 | 8716 |
| Toyota Yaris | 1518 | 11,354 |
| Mazda CX-5 | 1483 | 8040 |
| Toyota Prado | 1415 | 10,735 |
| Hyundai i20 | 1382 | 6861 |
| Holden Colorado | 1274 | 4230 |
| Mazda2 | 1272 | 10,315 |
| Nissan Dualis | 1183 | 7345 |
| Toyota Kluger | 1114 | 7916 |
| Ford Focus | 1092 | 10,092 |
| Ford Territory | 1084 | 8779 |
| Nissan X-Trail | 1074 | 9377 |
| MARKET SEGMENTS | JULY 2012 | 2012 YTD (+/-) |
| Passenger | 43,354 (-5.1%) | 329,472 (1.9%) |
| SUV | 23,845 (23%) | 177,100 (31.9%) |
| Light Commercial | 16,903 (25.6%) | 110,900 (6.8%) |
| Heavy Commercial | 2539 (3.5%) | 17,023 (7.2%) |
| Total Market | 86,641 (7%) | 634,495 (9.9%) |
| PASSENGER CARS | JULY 2012 | 2012 YTD (+/-) |
| Light | 11,038 (3.4%) | 79,589 (0.7%) |
| Small | 17,931 (-7.5%) | 143,826 (3.3%) |
| Medium | 17,931 (-7.5%) | 49,718 (17.9%) |
| Large | 4576 (-35.3%) | 35,891 (-22.5%) |
| Upper Large | 266 (17.2%) | 1319 (-28.4%) |
| People Movers | 955 (-5.7%) | 6821 (4.1%) |
| Sports | 1916 (80.4%) | 12,308 (54.1%) |
| SPORY UTILITY VEHICLES | JULY 2012 | 2012 YTD (+/-) |
| SUV Small | 4848 (50%) | 35,794 (61.6%) |
| SUV Medium | 8548 (20%) | 62,564 (24.3%) |
| SUV Large | 9346 (15.2%) | 69,808 (27.6%) |
| SUV Upper Large | 1103 (21.1%) | 8934 (26.1%) |
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