VFACTS November 2025: Australian new automotive gross sales drop as main auto manufacturers stoop

A complete of 99,906 automobiles had been delivered in Australia in November 2025, down 1.8 per cent on final 12 months amid vital drops from main gamers like Ford, Mitsubishi, MG, Nissan and Volkswagen.

This tally was calculated from gross sales knowledge obtained by the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries’ (FCAI) month-to-month VFACTS report and the Electrical Automobile Council’s report, which covers Tesla and Polestar deliveries individually.

Plug-in hybrid automobiles (PHEVs) are having fun with their second, even after the elimination of the Fringe Advantages Tax (FBT) exemption, with deliveries up 83.3 per cent on the identical month final 12 months to 4768, or 4.8 per cent of the full market – simply over half of the full market share for electrical automobiles (EVs) at 9.1 per cent.

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Yr-to-date, PHEV gross sales are sitting at 47,565, up 130.6 per cent however nonetheless behind EVs (92,886 year-to-date).

Gross sales of purely petrol-powered automobiles are trending downwards as PHEVs, EVs and hybrids proceed to take maintain. Petrol automobile gross sales dropped 18.1 per cent month on month and are actually down 9.5 per cent year-to-date.

New automotive gross sales had been down throughout virtually each state and territory, with solely Tasmania and Western Australia seeing a rise final month. Non-public, authorities and enterprise automobile gross sales had been all down, although gross sales to rental corporations had been up.

Manufacturers

Toyota stays the market chief, although it had a slight drop of three.8 per cent to 19,787 items.