The world’s most selling auto brand Toyota has proved its supremacy once again. The Japanese car major has yet again topped the new car sales charts in Australia for the year 2013. This has been the consecutive 11th year that Toyota has topped the country’s sales charts for new cars. For the year 2013, Toyota has won the crown of the most popular auto brand in Australia with the Corolla achieving the title as the nation’s most favoured new car. The Toyota Corolla has been the overall victor in Australia as per the preliminary sales numbers.
While the official results on the car sales in the year 2013 in Australia is yet to be released on the 6th of this month, which will confirm Toyota’s sales chart topping success, another media reports have already revealed that the Toyota Corolla has outshone the Mazda3 and has become the country’s new top selling car. The year 2013 is also expected to immerge as a record year for new car sales in the Australian car market.
Toyota has been the dominant leader of the Australian car market and has been topping the sales charts for over a decade now, and has been recording almost double the total sales figures as compared to its closest rival. However, the year 2013 has brought new success to the Toyota Corolla. It is interesting to note that the iconic Toyota sedan, the Corolla has never reached the top spot in Australia before the year 2013, marking the year as special both for Toyota as well as Corolla.
As per the preliminary reports, Toyota Motor has managed to sell about 215,000 new vehicles in the Australian car market last year. These numbers include around 43,500 Corolla units which have ensured that emerges as the new the top selling car from the top selling auto brand in Australia. The year 2013 recorded the sale of over 1.14 million new cars which is about 30,000 units more as compared to the total new cars sales in Australia in the year 2012.
As per the reports, Holden has occupied the second position after Toyota and has managed to sell about 110,000 vehicles. This is believed to the company worst overall sales performance in a calendar year in about twenty years’ of time. This is in spite of the fact that the company introduced the updated VF Commodore, a new Malibu and introduced refreshed models of almost all its vehicles in its portfolio in the year 2013.
The reports also show that Mazda which tried a lot to prevent its Mazda3 from losing its crown of Australia’s top selling car to Corolla, managed to sale 1400 units of the Mazda3 and got the third position in the sales chart.
The Japanese auto maker, which will be launching the all new Mazda3 in Australia in this month, emerged as the third top seeling brand by selling over 100,000 vehicles, while Hyundai got the forth position.
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