AFTER a tumultuous 12 months in 2020 which noticed it end 23 per cent down on 2019, the New Zealand new-vehicle market has bounced again and posted constructive year-on-year progress for the primary month of 2021, with the entire market up 6.2 per cent in comparison with January 2020.
The 6.2 per cent enhance equates to an additional 815 automobiles discovering houses with the grand whole being 13,893 items for the month, sufficient to make January 2021 the third-strongest on report.
Motor Business Affiliation (MIA) chief government David Crawford attributed the sturdy begin to the inflow of inventory that arrived in December in addition to the “resilient native economic system”.
On the prime of the tables, Toyota maintained its place because the nation’s best-selling model, comfortably sustaining its 17 per cent stranglehold available on the market with 2368 gross sales, greater than 900 items away from Mitsubishi (1437/10%) who held onto second place for the second month in a row.
Ford rounded out the highest three with 1390 gross sales (10%), solely simply edging out Kia who notched up 1352 deliveries, additionally incomes it a ten per cent market share.
Mazda got here residence in fifth with 1033 gross sales for the month (7%), properly away from Suzuki (719) and Hyundai (679) in sixth and seventh respectively, every occupying a 5 per cent slice of the market.
Nissan was in no-man’s-land in eighth (601/4%) forward of Volkswagen (450/3%) and Honda (365/3%), rounding out the highest 10.
By way of the preferred fashions, it was largely a case of as you had been following the conclusion of 2020 with the Ford Ranger as soon as once more taking prime honours with 948 new registrations forward of the Toyota HiLux (750) and RAV4 (471).
Subsequent was the Mitsubishi Triton with 414 gross sales which was adopted by an onslaught of medium and compact SUVs lead by the Mitsubishi Outlander (389), Kia Seltos (387) and Mitsubishi ASX (375).
Kia’s Sportage got here in eighth with 374 deliveries, forward of the Mazda CX-5 in ninth (302) and Nissan Navara in tenth (281).
Bucking the development of 2020, compact SUVs rose to the highest as the preferred car section in January, occupying a stable 26 per cent of the full market, adopted loosely by medium SUVs (18%) and 4×4 pick-up vans (16%).
Electrified automobiles additionally loved a stable opening to 2021 with 1410 new inexperienced automobiles being registered, 1073 of which had been hybrids, not together with 93 plug-in hybrids (PHEVs).
Of these 1410 items, 244 had been devoted battery-electric automobiles (BEVs), one thing the MIA described as “encouraging”.
NZ High 10 Manufacturers January 2021
Rank | Model | Gross sales | Share % |
1 | Toyota | 2368 | 17 |
2 | Mitsubishi | 1437 | 10 |
3 | Ford | 1390 | 10 |
4 | Kia | 1352 | 10 |
5 | Mazda | 1033 | 7 |
6 | Suzuki | 719 | 5 |
7 | Hyundai | 679 | 5 |
8 | Nissan | 601 | 4 |
9 | Volkswagen | 450 | 3 |
10 | Honda | 365 | 3 |
NZ High 10 Fashions January 2021
Rank | Mannequin | Gross sales |
1 | Ford Ranger | 948 |
2 | Toyota HiLux | 750 |
3 | Toyota RAV4 | 471 |
4 | Mitsubishi Triton | 414 |
5 | Mitsubishi Outlander | 389 |
6 | Kia Seltos | 387 |
7 | Mitsubishi ASX | 375 |
8 | Kia Sportage | 374 |
9 | Mazda CX-5 | 302 |
10 | Nissan Navara | 281 |