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2017 was a record year for new car sales in Australia with a total of 1,189,116 registrations. This record was kicked along by the best December ever with 102,820 new cars sold, an increase of 4.1 per cent on the corresponding month in 2016.
 
December is referred to as the silly season for a reason and there are some anomalies in the month’s data.
 
VFACTS reported Holden finished December in second spot with 12,179 sales, a massive 57.7 per cent improvement on December 2016.
 
Now December is a time when manufacturers will frantically register cars in order to achieve yearly targets. These cars go on to be sold as demos in January clean out sales. This year it was Holden that may have got overexcited.
 
Holden’s new Astra (a very good car – review will be up in the next week) was Australia’s second best selling car in December with a huge 3533 sales. This is the best month for the Astra in what seems like an eternity.
 
Another Holden model, the Colorado ute also had a stormer (based on the numbers) finishing in fourth spot with 3222 units moved.
 
In response to Holden’s extraordinary December, I can only quote Gwen Stefani, “this shit is bananas, B A N A N A S.”
 
It was business as usual at the top of the table, the Toyota HiLux was the best selling model with 3949 sales.
 
Mitsubishi has had a big 2017 and almost chased down Mazda to get on the podium.
 
SUVs are starting to pull away from passenger cars, achieving a market share of 39.3 per cent, passenger cars took a 35.7 share.  
                            
Top 10 selling new vehicles – December 2017
 
Toyota HiLux - 3949 
Holden Astra - 3533  
Ford Ranger - 3458    
Holden Colorado - 3222        
Mazda 3 - 2807          
Mitsubishi Triton - 2645        
Holden Commodore - 2229   
Mitsubishi ASX - 2128          
Mazda CX-5 - 2113   
 
Top 10 selling vehicle brands – November 2017
 
Toyota - 17,081          
Holden - 12,179         
Mazda - 9102 
Mitsubishi - 9019       
Hyundai - 6182          
Ford - 5636    
Volkswagen - 5136    
Honda - 5041 
Nissan - 4581 
Subaru - 4132 
 
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