Field Days Contribute to June Registration Record

Media Release

4 July 2016

Field Days Contribute to June Record for New Vehicle Registrations

David Crawford, Chief Executive Officer of the Motor Industry Association says

“The 2016 new vehicle market continues to perform beyond expectations with sales in June up 5.1% on June 2015 and delivering a steady 5.3% growth for the year to date. New registrations of 13,699 vehicles is the strongest month of June since 1982 and the second highest month of any ever on record. Year to date there has been 69,057 new vehicles registered in New Zealand compared to 65,653 this time last year, an increase of 3,404 vehicles.”

“There were 9,186 passenger vehicle registrations and 4,513 commercial vehicle registrations, which were once again the highest month of June on record for commercial vehicle registrations and only the third time more than 4,000 commercial vehicles were sold in a month. The previous two times were also in June off the back of field days (4,002 registrations in 2014 and 4,009 in 2015)” said Mr Crawford.

Toyota was the overall market leader for the month of June with 19% market share (2,666 units) with Ford second on 11% (1,478 units) and Holden third with 9% (1,274 units).

Toyota remains the passenger car market leader for the month of June with 17% share (1,569 units), with Holden second on 9% (843 units) and Mazda third, just one unit behind Holden, with 9% (842 units). Toyota regained the commercial vehicle market lead from Ford with 24% share (1,097 units) followed by Ford at 20% (882 units) and Holden third at 10% (431 units).

Reflecting the increasing popularity of SUV’s, the top three passenger vehicles for the month of June were all SUV’s. Toyota Highlander was the top selling passenger model with 5% market share (414 units), followed by the Toyota RAV4 on 4% (396 units) and the Kia Sportage on 3% (316 units).

The Ford Ranger retained its position as the monthly top selling commercial model for June with 19% market share (836 units) and was also the top selling model overall for the month of June. The Toyota Hilux was the second best seller with 18% market share (811 units) with the Holden Colorado at 9% (410 units). Year to date the Ford Ranger retains its lead as the top selling commercial model with 19% market share (4,000 units) followed by the Toyota Hilux, with 15% market share (3,263 units).

The top four models for the month of June were all light commercial vehicles, reflecting continued strong demand for 4x2 and 4x4 utes. The SUV segments accounted for 36% of vehicle registrations for the month of June followed by the Pick Up/Chassis segments with 25% share.

“Those distributors that attended the annual fields days reported healthy demand for new vehicles. Other factors that are key drivers of new vehicles are record levels of net immigration, healthy trade sector and strong business confidence” said Mr Crawford.

ENDS.

Sheet 1: Detailed figures for top 15 distributors, full year 2015, month of June 2016 and year to date 2016, total vehicles, new cars and new commercials.

Sheet 2: Detailed figures for top 15 selling models - passenger cars and commercials- full year 2015, June 2016 and year to date 2016.

Sheet 3: MIA segmentation full year 2015, June 2016 and year to date 2016.

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