Best and worst performers in October 2016 Car Sales race

The VFACTS sales data is in and as we already reported Toyota again proved the nation’s most popular car brand in October.

While Hyundai, while suffering a 3.3% drop in sales compared to the same month last year, jumped into the coveted silver medal position at the expense of Mazda.

The Japanese car brand had a big seller again in the Mazda3 (fifth best-selling car model in Australia in October), but overall sales slipped back 7.2%.

Some of the other top performers in the month included:

• Ford – 6,508 (+6.7%)
• Bentley – 18 (+125.0%)
• Ferrari – 15 (+66.7%)
• Fiat – 229 (+17.4%)
• Great Wall – 11 (+83.3%)
• HAVAL – 61 (first October in Australia)
• Honda – 3,404 (+4.4%)
• Infiniti – 83 (+97.6%)
• Isuzu Ute – 1,806 (+2.6%)
• Jaguar – 264 (+64.0%)
• Kia – 3,543 (+23.6%)
• Lamborghini – 6 (+500.0%)
• LDV – 117 (+11.4%)
• Lexus – 923 (+7.0%)
• Lotus – 6 (+100.0%)
• Mercedes-Benz – 3,477 (+32.8%)
• MINI – 312 (+18.6%)
• Renault – 1,139 (+42.7%)
• Skoda – 472 (+14.6%)
• Volkswagen – 4,869 (+8.7%)
• Volvo – 478 (+1.9%)

While some of the more disappointing results included:

• Alfa Romeo – 65 (-43.0%)
• Audi – 1,826 (-10.0%)
• BMW – 1,802 (-9.9%)
• Chrysler – 30 (-58.9%)
• Citroen – 48 (-30.4%)
• Dodge – 5 (-92.1%)
• Foton Light – 47 (-51.0%)
• Holden – 7,521 (-7.0%)
• Jeep – 926 (-38.5%)
• Land Rover – 920 (-14.2%)
• Mitsubishi – 5,227 (-5.1%)
• Nissan – 5,543 (-7.0%)
• Peugeot – 166 (-50.0%)
• Porsche – 317 (-12.2%)
• Proton – 11 (-68.6%)
• Ssangyong – 12 (-84.4%)

We will bring you more analysis of the October 2016 VFACTS Car Sales Data in coming days.