Hold on tight everyone Australia should crack 1,000,000 car sales in 2011 after VFACTS figures show 88,654 new vehicles were sold in November. That brings the year to date total to 925,978, which should allow the 1 million mark to be broken for only the fourth time in Australia’s history.
“For the past four months in a row sales have been trending above the same period for 2010. This suggests improving consumer confidence in Australia’s economic prospects,†FCAI chief executive Ian Chalmers said.
Although, it is worth noting the final tally for 2011 will fall short of last year’s total of 1,035,574 sales.
As usual Toyota topped the charts for the month (17,436 sales), followed by Holden (9,761) and Ford (8,103).
For the fourth month in 2011 the Toyota Corolla was Australia’s highest-selling car (3,731). Close behind was the rather more bearable Mazda3 (3,480) and the tradies’ favourite Toyota HiLux (3,332).