Australia Vehicle Sales By Brand : 2000-04

The top three were clearly ahead of the rest but a pattern had emerged. Toyota took number one spot in 2003 and was pulling away comfortably. People were moving away from big cars to big SUVs and the 'Big T' was well placed to take advantage of that. In addition, its reputation for reliable vehicles was also having an effect. GM was at least holding on to 2nd spot, while Ford was well back at 3rd, both safe in their positions at least. Or were they?

Below them Nissan and Mazda were going well but Mitsubishi was not. Kia had charged into the Top 10 impressively while Daewoo was struggling. Total sales were approaching the million mark and leader Toyota passed the 200,000 mark. A few spaces lower down may be due to lack of data.

	Make	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
1	Toyota	156,385	141,282	157,864	186,370	201,737
2	Holden	149,786	165,579	178,392	175,412	178,027
3	Ford	113,810	106,730	109,194	126,581	135,172
4	Nissan	45,867	43,633	50,628	58,568	63,654
5	Mazda	27,505	34,126	39,152	53,217	55,560
6	Mitsubishi	73,241	65,512	65,054	70,190	53,670
7	Hyundai	45,331	40,056	34,176	30,921	42,510
8	Honda	30,034	20,782	23,587	30,817	36,474
9	Subaru	26,647	27,049	28,112	29,829	33,619
10	Kia	9,921	12,179	12,237	17,235	24,454
11	Mercedes	13,411	16,312	18,077	18,988	17,489
12	BMW	9,607	12,206	12,663	12,973	14,860
13	VW	8,216	11,007	9,886	12,357	10,754
14	Suzuki	6,387	7,021	6,854	7,025	7,206
15	Peugeot	2,712	3,452	6,630	7,309	7,005
16	Isuzu	5,351	4,817	5,571	5,834	6,757
17	Chrysler	6,145	6,310	6,675	6,398	6,669
18	Daewoo	20,514	11,318	9,377	8,143	5,514
19	Daihatsu	5,397	5,751	6,010	4,845	5,016
20	Lexus	2,542	2,318	3,111	4,490	5,009
21	Hino	2,126	2,446	2,828	3,304	4,397
22	Audi	3,016	3,507	4,160	4,450	3,701
23	Renault		1,947	4,565	3,178	3,354
24	Fuso	see Mits	2,245	2,342	2,599	3,297
25	Land Rover	5,517	5,490	4,524	3,898	3,143
26	Volvo	3,849	4,485	3,169	2,692	2,802
27	Citroën	652	1,005	1,705	2,309	2,400
28	Kenworth	890	678	1,319	1,658	2,289
29	Iveco			1,325	2,140	2,141
30	Saab	2,524	2,778	2,631	2,152	1,848
31	Alfa Romeo	1,744	2,023	2,513	2,006	1,800
32	MINI			1,450	1,633	1,499
33	Proton	2,742	1,705	873	1,320	1,378
34	Porsche	689	812	712	1,187	1,264
35	Volvo Comm		see Volvo	858	1,144	1,164
36	Ssangyong					1,106
37	Mack	802	753	767	921	1,078
38	Jaguar	1,024	1,057	1,751	1,433	1,015
39	Niss Diesel	see Niss	543	751	786	975
40	Freightliner	598	554	573	676	809
41	MG Rover	156	1,008	823	665	566
42	Western Str	175	139	133	318	545
43	smart				255	479
44	Sterling		346	289	307	411
45	Scania	253	289	410	461	408
46	Fiat			63	200	343
47	DAF		99	155	251	292
48	MAN		90	103	127	176
49	Bentley	12	14	21	31	126
50	Maserati	55	41	73	60	93
51	Lotus	22	23	45	50	81
52	International	908	1,057	35	12	79
53	Ferrari	62	82	73	73	69
	Others	475	25	20	13	51
	Total	787,100	772,681	824,309	909,811	956,335

Data source: VFACTS.