01-09-2023, 01:06 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-09-2023, 11:20 PM by ElwoodBlues1.)
Car sales figures for 2022.....the winners first...apologies for the longer than normal post.
1. Toyota up 3.3% from the previous year and clear market leader with 231,050 sales.
2: Mazda down -5.3% but still with 95,718 units sold, made a real effort to improve their service as they did cop some bad press from memory over some legal issues.
3: Kia up 15.3% with 78,330 units sold, priced right and the best of the two Korean brothers with better service back up.
4: Mitsubishi up 13.7% after looking down and out after cross sharing tech with two perennial duds in Nissan and Renault with the Triton ute proving popular.
5: Hyundai...seem to have a lot of recalls and iffy engine problems(fires etc) but still managed a 0.6% rise in sales and sold 73,345 units.
6: Ford..living on Ranger and to a lesser extent Everest sales, down -6.7% @66,628 units sold, the other models in their range contributed around 8000 units only so Ford are just hanging on imho.
7: MG...Chinese cheapies selling well at nearly 50,000 units and up 27.1%.....can only see them selling more with their cheap EV's.
8: Subaru....36,000 units sold and sales dropped by around 3%.....20% owned by Toyota who have squeezed the innovation out of the company and will likely own more of a share over the years as they make Sub's more impotent with those horrible CVT transmissions and further reducing the model range.
Shock improvers apart from MG were Chinese mates GWM up 36%, RAM up 52%( the bigger the ute the more bogans in Oz seem to want them) and the renamed Ssan Yongs(cant remember the silly new name) and they are still rubbish but managed a a 32.4% increase in sales. Suzuki were up 23.5% in sales and while I cant confirm Id guess thats on the back of the fetish for Jimnys and the crazy resale value prices they get.
Losers.......Nissan...down -35.8% and I'd say their future in Oz looks very grim with just 26, 491 units sold.
Ditto Honda...down -19% to around 14000 sales only and they are almost done in Oz, they screwed all their dealers over with fixed prices and have been on a downhill trend for a while now. Management have completely ruined what was once one of the best cars on the road and paying upwards of 40k for a new Civic wouldnt have many folk rushing to buy them.
Lexus down -23%...bean counters at Toyota HQ wont be happy, just too expensive for the average punter in a high interest rate environment .......same with Mercedes, BMW, and Audi all down.
Volvo and Porsche went against that trend and improved their sales, probably with their SUV offerings.
Jeep....one of my favs and they didnt let me down...-14.2%, spiralling out of control and out of business unless they stop churning out the Lemons they do at not so cheap prices. LDV doubled Jeep sales which tells you how well Jeep are going as LDV make some of the biggest crape boxes on the road and with equally crape service to back them up.
Sales figures show the love for big Utes is only getting stronger with four of the top ten cars sold in Aus being utes and the Toyota Prado rounding out the top ten as another offroad offering.
EV sales led by Tesla at around 19000 units but EVs still overpriced and only making up a small portion of the market but I expect the Chinese car makers to improve on that and probably corner the market especially when they start selling big EV Utes that can cover some real distance..
Source for my figures was CarExpert.com.au
1. Toyota up 3.3% from the previous year and clear market leader with 231,050 sales.
2: Mazda down -5.3% but still with 95,718 units sold, made a real effort to improve their service as they did cop some bad press from memory over some legal issues.
3: Kia up 15.3% with 78,330 units sold, priced right and the best of the two Korean brothers with better service back up.
4: Mitsubishi up 13.7% after looking down and out after cross sharing tech with two perennial duds in Nissan and Renault with the Triton ute proving popular.
5: Hyundai...seem to have a lot of recalls and iffy engine problems(fires etc) but still managed a 0.6% rise in sales and sold 73,345 units.
6: Ford..living on Ranger and to a lesser extent Everest sales, down -6.7% @66,628 units sold, the other models in their range contributed around 8000 units only so Ford are just hanging on imho.
7: MG...Chinese cheapies selling well at nearly 50,000 units and up 27.1%.....can only see them selling more with their cheap EV's.
8: Subaru....36,000 units sold and sales dropped by around 3%.....20% owned by Toyota who have squeezed the innovation out of the company and will likely own more of a share over the years as they make Sub's more impotent with those horrible CVT transmissions and further reducing the model range.
Shock improvers apart from MG were Chinese mates GWM up 36%, RAM up 52%( the bigger the ute the more bogans in Oz seem to want them) and the renamed Ssan Yongs(cant remember the silly new name) and they are still rubbish but managed a a 32.4% increase in sales. Suzuki were up 23.5% in sales and while I cant confirm Id guess thats on the back of the fetish for Jimnys and the crazy resale value prices they get.
Losers.......Nissan...down -35.8% and I'd say their future in Oz looks very grim with just 26, 491 units sold.
Ditto Honda...down -19% to around 14000 sales only and they are almost done in Oz, they screwed all their dealers over with fixed prices and have been on a downhill trend for a while now. Management have completely ruined what was once one of the best cars on the road and paying upwards of 40k for a new Civic wouldnt have many folk rushing to buy them.
Lexus down -23%...bean counters at Toyota HQ wont be happy, just too expensive for the average punter in a high interest rate environment .......same with Mercedes, BMW, and Audi all down.
Volvo and Porsche went against that trend and improved their sales, probably with their SUV offerings.
Jeep....one of my favs and they didnt let me down...-14.2%, spiralling out of control and out of business unless they stop churning out the Lemons they do at not so cheap prices. LDV doubled Jeep sales which tells you how well Jeep are going as LDV make some of the biggest crape boxes on the road and with equally crape service to back them up.
Sales figures show the love for big Utes is only getting stronger with four of the top ten cars sold in Aus being utes and the Toyota Prado rounding out the top ten as another offroad offering.
EV sales led by Tesla at around 19000 units but EVs still overpriced and only making up a small portion of the market but I expect the Chinese car makers to improve on that and probably corner the market especially when they start selling big EV Utes that can cover some real distance..
Source for my figures was CarExpert.com.au