Mitsubishi beats Toyota in New Zealand passenger automotive gross sales

The success of the Outlander SUV within the Kiwi market, has seen Mitsubishi Motors New Zealand pip Toyota New Zealand to change into the best-selling passenger car model for 2022.

Whole passenger car registrations for the 2022 calendar yr in New Zealand have been up 4% for the yr to 116,370 models.

Mitsubishi (17,257) simply pipped Toyota (17,003) for Kiwi market management in passenger vehicles. The Outlander was the best-selling passenger automotive in New Zealand with 9105 registrations in 2022.

New Vitality Automobile manufacturers Tesla and MG rose to quantity six and 7 respectively within the prime 10 passenger car desk.

Yr on yr within the prime 10, Mitsubishi Motors New Zealand was up 18% in passenger automotive registrations, Toyota was down 5%, Kia was up 10%, Suzuki was up 8%, Hyundai was up 12%, Tesla was up a whopping 113%, MG was up 40%, Mazda was down 26%, Honda was down 4% and Ford was down 10%.

The full quantity of passenger automotive registrations mirror each the constrained provide chain for a lot of manufacturers in addition to the introduction of the Labour Authorities’s Clear Automotive laws which has influenced client purchases.

Prime 10 passenger model registrations in 2022