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Toyota and Corolla race ahead(273)

Toyota sold 72 per cent more vehicles than any other carmaker in Australia last month as Corolla strengthened its lead as the country's best-selling car. Dealers representing the market-leading Toyota brand delivered in excess of 18,100 vehicles to customers in October compared with just over 10,500 for its nearest rival. Toyota's result was led by the evergreen Corolla, which has topped the national sales chart since May. Corolla has exceeded 3,000 sales for each of the past nine months, stretching its lead as Australia's best-selling car this year to more than 1,500 registrations. Toyota had three of the top six best-selling vehicles in October with strong performances from HiLux (3,172 sales) and the locally built Camry (2,251).

Other Toyota vehicles to lead their segments for the month were the 86 sports car, LandCruiser 200 series SUV, HiAce van and HiAce bus. RAV4 had its best October on record. Last month's results lifted Toyota's overall tally so far this year beyond 176,900 deliveries. No other company has reached 100,000 sales in 2013. Toyota also widened the gap over the second-placed brand to a remarkable 84,500 deliveries compared with a margin of 82,111 at the same stage last year. The company's executive director sales and marketing Tony Cramb said Toyota was set to record its 11th consecutive year of market leadership - a winning streak that has not been achieved by any carmaker in more than 30 years.

"Toyota has embarked on a strong push to the end of the year with our sights set on achieving well in excess of 210,000 sales from an unrivalled range of locally built and imported vehicles," Mr Cramb said. "We are particularly focused on our locally built Camry and Aurion sedans as well as newly revised versions of Prado and HiLux," he said. "In addition, we are entering the run-out phase for Corolla sedan and Kluger SUV ahead of next-generation models that are coming in the first half of 2014."

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