Let's check out the dominating car brands that the Aussies have continued to patronized and continued to support evident by this September's sales.
Though there was an obvious decline in the sedan segment, SUVs made up for it and continues to grow as it becomes the preferred vehicle type of car owners. Small SUVs took the lead according to reports from Car Advice.
SUVs such as the 2018 Mitsubishi ASX, BMW X3, and Mercedes-Benz GLC made almost half of the vehicle purchases at 48.02 percent. Passenger cars such as Toyota Corolla, Mazda X3 and the Hyundai i3 took the second spot at 35.04 percent. Compact cars or light commercial cars came at third with only 16.64 percent.
These numbers aren't that far from the 2nd quarter's sale. As, Japanese carmakers, Nissan and Mazda, dominated the SUVs market be it for the small, medium or large segment, according to Performance Drive.
Nissan's 2018 Qashqai topped the small SUVs segment together with Mitsubishi's 2018 ASX and Mazda's CX3. European cars were leading for the luxury small SUVs, Mercedes-Benz's 2018 GLA took the top spot followed by BMW's X1 and the Q3 by Audi respectively.
Mazda's CX5 made up for the decline in its CX3's sales as it is the leader for the affordable medium SUV segment followed by the 2018 Toyota RAV4 and Honda's CRV.
For luxury medium SUVs the Europeans took over once again. Mercedes-Benz GLC leads, followed by the 2018 BMW X3 then the Lexus NX at third.
US carmakers barely made any outstanding rank in any segment this month. However overall Ford made the lists. The 2018 Ford Ranger came as second to the most preferred vehicle last June 2018. Their sports car the 2018 Ford Mustang even fared better, as it snagged the most number of sales with 635 units.
These numbers are quite upfront when it comes to gas-fueled cars. However, Australia's market share in the electric vehicle industry remains vague. Firstly because companies, especially like Tesla, are tight-lipped on their numbers.
However, Renew Economy published a report off of Australian Bureau of Statistics data, which shows Tesla sold a combined number of units for 1,410 shared by the 2018 Tesla Model 2 and Model X. A remarkable increase thrice its numbers back in 2016.
With Tesla struggling for pre-orders with its Model 3, given Australia's proximity to China - the latter came second with the most number of orders after North America. Perhaps its high time that the EV tech company highly considers debuting its 2018 Model 3 release in Asia?
