The Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) comprises of member companies, to represent the Australian automotive industry across the board from lobbying for greater safety and environmental standards from manufacturers to monitoring sales performance of vehicles sold in Australia.
Every month, the FCAI puts together the VFACTS report to show the raw data and trends of sales figures from almost all new car dealerships in Australia.
For the first half of 2015, Australian’s have bought a total of 578,427 vehicles, and of that, Queenslander’s bought 121,198 vehicles
Passenger vehicles (hatches, sedans, wagons, sports coupes or people movers) made up 260,752 of the sales, while SUV sales made up 199,671 of all new cars parked in driveways across Australia. This means that just over 34 per cent of cars registered in 2015 have been SUVs, versus 45 per cent of passenger vehicles (Suzuki Lapin)