NZ Sales: Kiwi market posts strongest May on record

A LOT just like the Australian market, New Zealand’s new-vehicle market has been going from power to power to this point in 2021, having posted the strongest march, April and now Might on file with 14,552 new autos registered final month.

The key to final month’s success, in line with Motor Trade Affiliation (MIA) spokesperson Mark Stockdale, lays within the abundance of latest inventory that arrived on Kiwi shores with gross sales up 75 per cent in comparison with Might 2020.

Unsurprisingly it was Toyota that continued to rule the roost with a 16 per cent market share (2388 gross sales), as soon as once more adopted by Mitsubishi (1721/12 per cent) and Ford (1227/seven per cent) respectively.

Behind Ford in fourth was Kia, its 1016 gross sales incomes the Korean model a seven per cent market share forward of Mazda in fifth with a six per cent share (902).

Nissan improved by one place to complete Might in sixth (836) as Hyundai slipped down the order to ninth with 619 new registrations.

Between these two in seventh and eight respectively had been Suzuki (777) and Volkswagen (658) whereas Honda (383) usurped MG to spherical out the highest 10 – MG completed the month in thirteenth. 

By way of the most well-liked fashions, the highest 10 was given an honest shakeup final month however the prime two spots went unchanged with the Ford Ranger as soon as once more getting the higher of the Toyota HiLux within the gross sales race with 876 deliveries towards 795.

Toyota struck again with the RAV4 nabbing third place by clocking up 620 gross sales.

Mitsubishi occupied fourth, fifth and sixth locations with the ASX (525), Triton (491) and Outlander (407) respectively whereas the Nissan Navara slotted in comfortably at seventh with 339 new registrations.

April’s bronze-getter, the Kia Stonic, didn’t fare fairly so nicely in Might with simply 319 gross sales – little greater than half of the earlier month’s whole – whereas the Mazda CX-5 (299) was bumped all the way down to ninth on account of the Navara’s success.

Equalling the CX-5’s tally was the pint-sized Suzuki Swift, leaving the Honda Jazz to spherical out the highest 10 with 295 gross sales.

Predictably, compact SUVs continued to steer the market final month, accounting for 1 / 4 (3653) of the entire market whereas the larger mid-sizers claimed a 16 per cent (2397) slice of the motion.

Regardless of there being 4 examples throughout the prime 10 hottest fashions, 4×4 pick-ups couldn’t fairly match the mid-sized household haulers on sheer quantity however nonetheless occupied a 16 per cent share (2291) of the market.

Electrified autos had a blinder of month with 1628 examples shifted in whole, 1232 of which had been hybrids, 276 had been battery electrical (BEV) and the remaining 120 had been plug-in hybrids (PHEV).

In an announcement, Mr Stockdale stated worldwide delivery capability was “nonetheless a great distance off pre-COVID-19 ranges with producers nonetheless grappling with a worldwide scarcity of semi-conductor chips”.

“Manufacturing is being slowed down or briefly suspended to match chip availability,” he stated.

“Moreover, as the remainder of the world comes out of COVID-19 customers are doing what New Zealanders did final 12 months, spending up massive on new objects. 

“Worldwide demand for brand spanking new autos is outstripping manufacturing functionality and it’s potential producers may start to pro-rata provide to markets.”

NZ Prime 10 Manufacturers Might 2021

NZ Prime 10 Fashions Might 2021

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