Ford Ranger topples Toyota RAV4 in record-setting March: Australia’s new-car sales results revealed

Australia’s fresh-automobile gross sales outcomes are in for but one other checklist-setting March, with 111,617 gross sales reported via the Federal Chamber of Automobile Industries (FCAI) and the EV Council.

Riding gross sales exclaim were streak-in hybrid autos, up 380 percent from the identical month last three hundred and sixty five days. It’s corresponding to February’s result, and reflects a dart to accumulate in earlier than the FBT exemption for PHEVs ceased on 1 April.

Electrical automobile gross sales were down in contrast to 2024, but no longer as worthy as the FCAI claimed. Taking into consideration Tesla and Polestar, battery-powered autos made up 7.5 percent of the market with 8385 gross sales.

FCAI chief executive Tony Weber’s assertion that “demand of for EVs is extinct” comes as The Australian stories the federal opposition will scrap emissions fines below watered-down Original Automobile Effectivity Standards (NVES) if elected.

Simplest-promoting brands March 2025

Toyota used to be Australia’s greatest fresh-automobile vendor, adopted by Ford then Mazda within the month of March. Mazda retains its three hundred and sixty five days-to-date lead over the Blue Oval, alternatively.

Kia stayed narrowly forward of Mitsubishi with Hyundai following. Chinese language carmaker GWM posted its supreme resolve ever in March with 4393 gross sales, ample to sight it withhold a solid seventh space overall. Alternatively, a exhausting-charging BYD recorded 4811 gross sales in March — lets peek if it will spoil the cease-10 by three hundred and sixty five days’s end.

Nissan had a greater month, though MG peaceable remains forward three hundred and sixty five days-to-date, and Subaru saved its head within the cease-10 three hundred and sixty five days-to-date, but BYD is coming rapidly to upset that occasion.

Australia’s preferred autos in March 2025

A little upset to Toyota’s plans of RAV4 domination in March, the Ford Ranger ute took high-promoting honours forward of Toyota’s family SUV. The RAV4 remains forward three hundred and sixty five days-to-date (13,802 plays 13,226).

Toyota’s evergreen Hilux managed third space adopted by a solid displaying from the Mitsubishi Outlander, bolstered by now-extinct FBT exemptions. Over a third of gross sales were for the Outlander PHEV last month.

The fresh potato Toyota Prado adopted in fifth save and inserting that nameplate nicely on its formulation to a checklist gross sales three hundred and sixty five days of 30,000-plus units.

Another hater-silencing fulfillment used to be the BYD Shark 6 streak-in hybrid ute. The newcomer’s gross sales tally is already great, notching up 2810 deliveries in its third month on sale. Especially spectacular, this comes with factual a single variant, not like all diverse autos forward.

Request remains if the Shark 6’s success will proceed after the beneficiant streak-in hybrid incentives go. The reply will are available in in next month’s gross sales figures.

A solid month for the Ford Everest big SUV, a weaker one for the Isuzu D-Max ute, a actual one for the MG ZS and one other right displaying from the Hyundai Kona little SUV with its mixture of petrol, hybrid and electrical energy, spherical out the cease-10.