Monthly Statistical Bulletin
4.2 Motor vehicle sales
Month	2005–06	2006–07	2007–08	2008–09	2009–10
Number (a) (b)
July	50 715	49 792	53 502	49 892	45 443
August	51 631	50 768	52 073	47 545	45 554
September	51 331	51 163	51 491	47 031	46 339
October	49 569	50 880	52 187	46 000	46 892
November	51 108	50 980	53 804	44 600
December	49 379	51 361	54 016	45 359
January	49 871	53 483	53 662	45 384
February	49 834	54 038	52 522	43 556
March	49 141	54 228	53 105	41 259
April	50 371	52 855	52 572	42 754
May	49 572	52 237	51 842	44 143
June	47 567	53 546	51 956	45 042
Annual	599 360	624 124	631 813	542 775
Annual change (b) – per cent
July	7.6	-1.8	7.5	-6.7	-8.9
August	7.1	-1.7	2.6	-8.7	-4.2
September	4.2	-0.3	0.6	-8.7	-1.5
October	-7.2	2.6	2.6	-11.9	1.9
November	0.8	-0.3	5.5	-17.1
December	1.2	4.0	5.2	-16.0
January	-2.1	7.2	0.3	-15.4
February	-4.6	8.4	-2.8	-17.1
March	-3.5	10.4	-2.1	-22.3
April	-1.5	4.9	-0.5	-18.7
May	-2.7	5.4	-0.8	-14.9
June	-6.1	12.6	-3.0	-13.3
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
								21 December 2009