“Preliminary industry registration data shows total new vehicle sales for 2012 topped 100,000 units,” said Perry Kerr, chief executive officer of New Zealand’s Motor Industry Association (MIA).
“The 19% increase in overall sales was an outstanding result in an apparently depressed economy. We are delighted with this result.
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“MIA data for December saw a total of 7,750 registrations for the month. This combined with previous months gave the industry a total of 100,794 sales for the year, broken down by passenger cars: 76,870, up 20.7 % (12,851 units) and commercial vehicles of 23,924 which were up 16 % (3,303 units) on 2012. This is only the third time since 1990 new vehicle sales have broken the 100,000 mark,” added Kerr.
For the year Toyota continued its 25 year dominance of the Kiwi new vehicle market topping both passenger car (14,992) and commercial vehicle (6,628) segments for 21,620 registrations for the year. This was a record for the automaker.
Ford was second with 11,132 registrations and General Motors’ Holden third with 9,446.
In the luxury car segment, BMW finished first position with 1,646 sales ahead of Audi (1,540) and Mercedes Benz (1,094).
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By GlobalDataThe top selling passenger car models for the year were the Toyota Corolla (5,324), Suzuki Swift (3,321) and Holden Captiva (2,506).
In light commercials, the Toyota Hilux retained first position (4,182) followed by the Ford Ranger (2,815) and the Nissan Navara (2,586).
