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Corolla has since clawed its way back, winning the top spot in March (4,086 sales) and April (3,315 sales). Keeping the pressure on, the Mazda3 still claimed second spot in both months with 3,587 and 3,057 sales respectively. It\u2019s pretty impressive that Mazda, considered a minor manufacturer in most markets, is in hot pursuit\u00a0of the giant Toyota\u2019s sales figures.<\/p>\n
Across all segments, Mazda\u2019s vastly smaller range sold 18,582 cars for January and February. Toyota dealers, with a far larger model range sitting across many more segments, sold 29,846 vehicles for the same period.<\/p>\n
While Toyota\u2019s lead and 2014 tally is pushing it towards a 12th consecutive year as Australia\u2019s best-selling automotive brand, the Mazda3 is already disrupting the numbers \u2013 Toyota\u2019s market share of 17.6% is only 6.6% more than Mazda\u2019s, and the gap is narrowing. With Toyota accustomed to an annual market share of around 20%, this is one battle you can bet it\u2019s desperate to win.<\/p>\n
Of course, Toyota has a number of models that are due for replacement,\u00a0including the segment-leading HiLux\u00a0(3348 sales in February), so it won\u2019t be giving up just yet.<\/p>\n
But as the year rolls on, the Mazda3 may still edge ahead of the Corolla to win the segment \u2013 a pretty amazing effort if they can sustain the numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The first quarter sales figures for Australia have indicated that there will be a duel for 2014\u2019s top spot on the best-selling cars ranking. According to data released by the\u00a0Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries, passenger car sales were down by 2.9% from last year \u2013 not surprising, considering that the same period last year was…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whats-new"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oryxpeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oryxpeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oryxpeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oryxpeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oryxpeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oryxpeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":782,"href":"https:\/\/www.oryxpeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions\/782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oryxpeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oryxpeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oryxpeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oryxpeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}