Toyota Sets an All-Time Industry Sales Record

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Jul 2, 2008
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Australian car sales figures for the month of June are in and the Toyota juggernaut is continuing to steamroll the opposition—in fact it's set a new monthly sales record: Toyota is now the first car company in Australia to sell over 25,000 vehicles in a month.

Sales figures released yesterday show that new car buyers have purchased in excess of 25,600 Toyotas in June.

The result included more than 5,000 Corollas, 4,500 Hiluxs, along with strong contributions from Yaris and the locally produced Aurion and Camry, all of which helped to push sales beyond the previous record of 24,539 sales set in June last year.

For the financial year ended yesterday, Toyota said it sold more than 247,500 vehicles - also an all-time industry record and it should be noted that no other car company in Australia has sold 200,000 vehicles in any 12-month period.

Toyota's senior executive director sales and marketing David Buttner said the June result was buoyed by the announcement during the month that Toyota will be the first company to build a hybrid car in Australia.

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  • Bret [reply]
    2 years ago 0 points
    Toyota sales are being propped up by the fleet market of their commercials.
    Retail sales of their PASSENGER cars are DOWN 2%
  • Cupid Stunt [reply]
    2 years ago 0 points
    Yep Bret but ask yourself why are they (the fleet buyers) choosing Toyota.
    Good customer interface, cheap to run, reliable and of course discounts. I suspect my second and third points are the main reasons.
    Are Ford/Holden/others competative...I doubt it. Also Holden/Ford are still only selling the big engined options of Falcon and Commodor as their main products (because they are Australian) whilst the people want decent (underlined) smaller cars.
  • Conquistador [reply]
    2 years ago 0 points
    Corolla is well below par when it comes to the small car sector.

    Think of it as a well built daewoo. The engineering is mutch the same. its just toyota manage to screw the thing together.

    Practically everything is the small car sector (excluding the Viva) is a generation better.
    • Cupid Stunt [reply]
      2 years ago 0 points
      Conq - if the corollas a well built Deawoo then its better than Holdens offering, Astra excepted (euro design of course).
  • Conquistador [reply]
    2 years ago 0 points
    Ok ok astra is borderline. made it due to the fact that its steering wheel is not connected to the front wheels with a lady assist from the local adult store as in the corolla.

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