New Car Sales April: SUVs On A Roll, Corolla And Toyota On Top Again

Australia’s new car market for 2015 is easily on track for over a million sales with another strong performance in April.

VFACTS reveals a total of 81,656 new cars were sold in April - up 1.2 percent on the same month last year - and sales are up 3.5 percent for the year-to-date with a total of 359,250 for the first four months of 2015.

Almost all of the heavy lifting was done by the SUV segment however, with every section of the passenger car market seeing a drop in sales - except sports cars.

Both light and heavy commercial vehicle sales were also up, improving 3.4 and 7.1 percent respectively over the same month last year.

But it seems customers can’t get enough of SUVs, with small, medium, large and upper-large segments all seeing double-digit improvements in sales figures from April 2014.

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