May 2020 new vehicle registrations in New Zealand were down 32% year on year to 8,313 units compared with 12,259 a year ago.
The Motor Industry Association said May “re-opened for business albeit in a constrained manner. It was a challenging month operating under alert level 2 and an economically depressed environment”.
“Year to date, the market was down almost 32% (to 42,102 units) on the same period in 2019.”
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Registrations of 5,401 passenger and SUVs for May 2020 were down 29.2%.
Commercial vehicle registrations of 2,912 units were down 37.2%.
The top selling models in May were the Toyota RAV4 (533), Ford Ranger (498) and Toyota Hilux (440).
58 BEVs, 51 PHEVs and 721 hybrids were sold in the month.
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By GlobalDataToyota was overall market leader with 19% market share (1,611 units), followed by Holden with 9% (760) and Ford (8%, 702).
“The MIA shares the views of many that with no new COVID-19 cases for the last 11 days and no known community spread for at least two months, we should be looking to move to alert level 1 sooner rather than later,” the organisation representing new vehicle importers said in a statement.
“The country is better prepared now to manage the odd case of COVID-19 should it arise. Our health system has improved significantly in terms of testing capability, contact tracing and hospital intensive care capacity.
“It is time to get our economy moving forward while maintaining our health gains.”
