Record new car sales in Australia for April 2024

Australian car income are successful the accelerated lane, with the manufacture signaling grounds figures for the period of April, and the archetypal 4 months of a year.

Toyota’s RAV4 was the best-selling conveyance for April, overtaking the Ford Ranger that looks connected way to clasp its spot arsenic Australia’s favourite car.

It was the best-ever monthly income effect for the RAV4.

The effect comes arsenic Toyota’s caller conveyance proviso concatenation returns to mean levels pursuing lengthy delays passim the coronavirus pandemic.

It besides helps warrant a power to much businesslike – and costly – hybrid-only engines for the Yaris and Corolla hatchbacks.

Toyota vice president for income and marketing, Sean Hanley, said hold times for caller cars person dropped importantly from year-long delays precocious endured by customers.

“Record deliveries are not a extremity successful themselves,” helium said.

“They item the pent-up request for hybrids and the occurrence being achieved successful substantially reducing lawsuit hold times.

“While it would beryllium casual to presume this effect is simply driven by historical demand, it is not the afloat picture. Customer orders successful April remained high, demonstrating a increasing fig of Australians are seeking fuel-efficient hybrids that are practical, susceptible and affordable.

“We stay focused connected gathering this demand. Based connected our transportation plan, mean hold times for Hybrid Electric variants of RAV4, Corolla hatch and C-HR volition beryllium backmost to mean by the extremity of adjacent period – conscionable 3 to 4 months, if not adjacent better.” Mr Hanley said.

Toyota’s improved proviso helped income of hybrid powered cars summation from a 7.5 per cent stock of the marketplace successful 2023 to 18.3 per cent of the marketplace past month.

Ford took 2nd spot for the period with 8,648 sales, up of Mazda (7,301), Kia (6,653) and Mitsubishi (5,314).

More than 97,000 caller cars were delivered past month, putting the marketplace 50,000 vehicles up of 2023 for the twelvemonth to date.

Tony Weber, main enforcement for the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries, said the car manufacture broke 10 grounds monthly income results successful the past year.

“April’s effect highlights beardown user assurance successful purchasing caller vehicles,

surpassing our expectations and is simply a testament to user prime and the industry’s

resilience successful a challenging economical landscape,” helium said.

In the aforesaid mode that a bully period for Toyota turbocharged hybrid sales, slower deliveries for Tesla enactment the brakes connected electrical cars.

Sales of electrical cars were down successful April 2024 (6,194) compared to the aforesaid period past twelvemonth (6,530).

The American brand’s rollercoaster-like income took a dip successful April, erstwhile Tesla delivered little than fractional arsenic galore cars arsenic it did successful March.

But the marque volition bounce backmost successful coming weeks, helped by the accomplishment of its caller Tesla Model 3 Performance sedan.