TOYOTA has taken its place as Australia’s favorite automotive model once more in 2022 – the 26th time the Japanese importer has topped the brand new automotive gross sales ladder.
Regardless of world provide challenges, Toyota posted its highest gross sales tally in 14 years based on figures launched by VFACTS, business knowledge exhibiting Toyota accounted for multiple in 5 new automobiles delivered throughout the nation final yr.
For the report, Toyota bought 231,050 automobiles, SUVs and industrial automobiles in 2022, a rise of three.3 per cent on the earlier yr’s tally.
The general outcomes for 2022 present Toyota have now been Australia’s main automotive model all through the previous 20 years, in addition to six different years since first reaching the highest rung on the gross sales ladder again in 1991.
Toyota is the one model to realize 200,000 gross sales in a single yr, exceeding that stage in every of the previous 11 years, and 18 out of the previous 19 years.
The business statistic additionally affirm the HiLux is once more Australian’s top-selling automotive for the seventh yr in a row, bettering its personal outcome by virtually 22 per cent to set a report of 64,391 unit gross sales throughout 2022.
Toyota says the quantity is the best annual complete for any automobile in Australia since 2005.
The HiLux set a brand new business report for four-wheel drive gross sales with 47,239 models bought, whereas some 17,062 examples of the two-wheel drive HiLux meant it was the mannequin’s greatest annual gross sales outcome since 2008.
Toyota says the HiLux is the one utility automobile to have ever ranked as Australia’s best-selling mannequin, and that HiLux has additionally led the Northern Territory marketplace for every of the previous 22 years, Queensland for 16 years in a row, and Western Australia for 15 years straight.
The ever-popular Corolla hatch and sedan vary prolonged the mannequin’s unbroken reign to 10 yr because the best-selling passenger automotive (25,284 models), whereas the RAV4 SUV scored a hat-trick because the best-selling mid-size SUV (34,845 models) and the LandCruiser Prado achieved report gross sales for the second yr in a row (21,102).
Hybrid powered fashions additionally set a brand new excessive. Thirty-one and a half per cent of all Toyota automobiles delivered over 2022 featured a hybridised powertrain, in all some 72,815 models. If hybridised Toyota fashions have been their very own model, it could rank sixth on the Australian gross sales chart.
The RAV4 was Australia’s best-selling hybrid mannequin with 26,547 unit gross sales, or 76.2 per cent of all RAV4 fashions bought.
Toyota Australia says the newest hybrid gross sales report lifts its all-time electrified automobile gross sales to 315,087 automobiles – a complete it says has lowered tailpipe emissions by the identical quantity as roughly 95,000 battery electrical automobiles.
The information comes forward of Toyota’s deliberate launched of its personal BEV, the totally electrical bZ4X mid-sized SUV due in native showrooms later this yr.
Talking on Toyota Australia’s gross sales success, Toyota Vice President Gross sales, Advertising and marketing and Franchise Operations Sean Hanley thanked clients for his or her loyalty and endurance whereas acknowledging the dedication of workers and vendor community to ship automobiles as rapidly as attainable.
“We’re extraordinarily grateful – and humbled – to report that our order financial institution stays very sturdy because of the belief positioned in our model and our automobile line-up by so many Australian firms and people,” he stated.
“Whereas it stays troublesome to make predictions on this evolving provide scenario, we are able to guarantee you that we’ll be working tougher than ever to ship greater than 200,000 automobiles to our clients but once more in 2023.
“We recognise that Toyota is extraordinarily lucky that well-recognised nameplates like HiLux, Corolla and LandCruiser – all of which have greater than half a century of heritage and success in Australia – proceed to ship on the distinctive motoring wants and necessities of various patrons throughout the nation.”
“We’re additionally energised by the information that electrification by way of our hybrid expertise continues to guide the business in supporting our clients with sensible and reasonably priced methods of considerably decreasing their emissions immediately, and daily.”
