Corolla tops sales chart for fourth time in 2011
Dec 5, 2011 By Toyota Australia.
Toyota's Corolla was Australia's best-selling vehicle last month - its fourth victory this year.
The popularity of Corolla helped push Toyota sales beyond 17,400 for the month - a margin of more than 7,600 ahead of its nearest rival.
Toyota now has an overall lead this year of more than 50,000 sales over any other company.
Toyota Australia senior executive director sales and marketing David Buttner said the company's results this year were remarkable.
'Toyota's market-leading results have demonstrated the company's resilience globally in overcoming obstacles such as the Japan earthquake and tsunami and the Thailand floods,' Mr Buttner said.
'Here in Australia, Toyota's success has helped the overall market to strong results in recent months, lifting to more than 925,000 at the end of November.
'This should ensure the industry passes one million this year, which would be only the fourth time in its history.'
Toyota's November results included nine vehicles that were leaders in their respective segments - Corolla, Yaris, Camry, RAV4, LandCruiser 200, HiLux 4x2, HiLux 4x4, HiAce bus and HiAce van.
For the year so far, HiLux is the best-selling Toyota vehicle with its November total of 3,332 lifting the popular workhorse to 34,501 sales in 2011 compared with 32,468 for Corolla.
Camry is in run-out ahead of a new-model launch, which will be followed in the new year by next-generation Camry Hybrid and Aurion.