Australian new-car sales in June 2025: BYD Shark 6 booms in resurgent VFACTS month

Sales of new motor vehicles in 2025 have reported their highest June result in the better part of a decade – and the fourth-highest on record – amid a surge in sales ahead of the end of the financial year.

Deliveries are still down 1.4 per cent over the first half of the year, at 624,130 – compared to 2024's record result of 633,097 – but 2025's mid-year report card remains the second-best on record.

Data published by the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) and Electric Vehicle Council (EVC) reports 127,437 new vehicles as sold in June 2025, up 6.2 per cent on the same month last year, and the highest June result since 2018.

June is historically the biggest month of the year for new-car sales, as customers rush to take delivery before the end of the financial year.

The biggest winner was BYD, which reported a 367.9 per cent surge in deliveries to 8156 vehicles last month – placing it fifth overall, ahead of stalwarts such as Kia and Mitsubishi.

It included a record result for the Shark 6 ute, on 2993 deliveries – placing it fifth overall – even though the tax exemption on plug-in hybrids that drove a surge in sales ended in April.

Bringing up the next positions for the growing Chinese brand were its two mid-size SUVs, the Sealion 6 hybrid and Sealion 7 electric vehicles, which reported 1604 and 1795 deliveries respectively – the former up 232.8 per cent, and the latter new to the market for 2025.

The Ford Ranger returned to the top of the new-car sales charts – with 6293 sales, up 0.1 per cent – less than 100 utes ahead of the Toyota HiLux in second (6195).

It means four of the Top Five sellers were utes – Ranger and HiLux in first and second, with the Isuzu D-Max and BYD Shark 6 in fourth and fifth.

They were split by the Tesla Model Y in third for the first time since March 2024, reporting 3457 deliveries as hand-overs of the updated model ramp up.

Far behind – in ninth – was a car that nearly dethroned the Ranger at the top of the charts, the Toyota RAV4, which posted just 2421 sales.

It is stuck between the cooling off of a boom in demand for the now-hybrid-only SUV over the past two years, and the lead-up to a new model due by this time next year.

Positions five to 14 were separated by fewer than 1000 deliveries, and range from city SUVs to off-road SUVs and utes.

Toyota remained the top-selling new-car brand, but its deliveries were down 3.2 per cent to 20,225 vehicles in June 2025, led by the RAV4's slump, and the Camry sedan down 63.3 per cent.

The Japanese car giant – the country's top seller of new motor vehicles continuously since 2003 – held onto 15.9 per cent of the market last month, and 19.4 per cent year-to-date, down on its typical historical market-share range of 20 to 25 per cent.

It was followed on the June sales charts by Ford (10,103, up 6.4 per cent), Mazda (9405, down 0.8 per cent), and Hyundai (8407, up 28.3 per cent), the latter driven by a 25.6 per cent surge for its Kona small SUV.

Two Chinese car brands placed in the Top 10, BYD in fifth and GWM in seventh – knocking long-time Top 10 finisher MG down to 12th as its new-generation MG 3 hatch and ZS small SUV cannot sell in the same numbers as their cheaper predecessors.

Chery was close behind in 13th, thanks to a record 3024 sales, including a best-ever 1768 deliveries of its small Tiggo 4 SUV.

Electric vehicles enjoyed a strong month – up 32.5 per cent to 13,169 deliveries – as the share of new vehicles sold powered by batteries crept back over 10 per cent.

It is thanks to a wave of new models in the market – including the Sealion 7 (1795) and Geely EX5 (822) – to counter a 2 per cent dip in Tesla sales year-on-year, to 4589 for the month.

The US electric-car giant updated its top seller, the Model Y, last month, but June 2024 was a particularly strong month for the brand – and its June 2025 result was miles ahead of its April 2025 tally of 500 deliveries.

It missed out on a Top 10 finish by just 21 cars, behind Subaru but ahead of MG and Nissan.

Tesla's sales slump earlier in 2025 means year-to-date deliveries of electric cars remain down 7.4 per cent.

Data below supplied by the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) and Electric Vehicle Council (EVC).

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