{"id":9465,"date":"2019-04-30T12:44:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T02:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/?p=9465"},"modified":"2023-08-18T19:44:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T09:44:01","slug":"suvs-and-utes-globally-unstoppable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/car-sales\/suvs-and-utes-globally-unstoppable\/","title":{"rendered":"SUVs and Utes Globally Unstoppable"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Toyota RAV4 SUV<\/p><\/div>\n

This year is shaping up to be an exciting and interesting year for car sales in Australia.  Currently, the Toyota Hilux is selling well above even the second biggest seller: the Ford Ranger.  With over 4,500 sales in March, Toyota and there owners are loving life.  Ford Ranger during the same period sold 3721 units.  But take a look at this list and you\u2019ll see that of the top ten models sold in Australia six of them are utes and SUVs.<\/p>\n

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  1. Toyota Hilux<\/li>\n
  2. Ford Ranger<\/li>\n
  3. Mitsubishi Triton<\/li>\n
  4. Mazda3<\/li>\n
  5. Toyota Corolla<\/li>\n
  6. Mazda CX-5<\/li>\n
  7. Hyundai i30<\/li>\n
  8. Mitsubishi ASX<\/li>\n
  9. Mitsubishi Outlander<\/li>\n
  10. Kia Cerato<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    What about in the rest of the world?  Well, it continues to be true that more SUV and utes are being purchased than any other type of car in Australia and around the world.  In fact, the world\u2019s most popular ute was not the Hilux but the Ford F-series (light truck).  Sorry Toyota lovers, but Ford takes you out globally!!  With well over 1 million F-series sold last year, that\u2019s very impressive!  In New Zealand, Kiwis have a taste for the Ford Ranger more so than the Hilux, too.  But this isn\u2019t about Ford being better than Toyota \u2013 just saying\u2026<\/p>\n

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    Ford F-Series<\/p><\/div>\n

    Now for redemption time for me, so as to get back on side with Toyota fans.  Last year the world\u2019s most popular SUV was the Toyota RAV4.  It was also the most popular SUV in New Zealand.  Maybe all the rental car companies that love the robust and reliable nature of the RAV4 make up a big swag of those RAV4 global sales numbers.  The roads between Christchurch and Milford Sound are teeming with RAV4s!<\/p>\n

    So why do you think that the SUV and utes are growing so much in popularity here and around the world?  It could well be because a decade or so ago utes and SUVs were vehicles that had a bit of a hard nose to them, with a more practical bent to them.  Some utes were tremendously good at carrying loads but hideously uncomfortable to travel any longer distances with.  Today your SUV and ute still has huge practical merit but they are way more comfortable and sophisticated.  And who can argue with the SUVs ability to accommodate seven occupants?  It gets a bit difficult putting seven seats inside a stationwagon with room to spare; and just totally impossible trying to fit seven seats inside a sedan.<\/p>\n

    With these sort of stats rolling off car sales yards, one could easily say that SUVs and utes are very much taking over the world, and this regardless of rising fuel prices. http:\/\/credit-n.ru\/zaymyi-next.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This year is shaping up to be an exciting and interesting year for car sales in Australia.  Currently, the Toyota Hilux is selling well above even the second biggest seller: the Ford Ranger.  With over 4,500 sales in March, Toyota and there owners are loving life.  Ford Ranger during the same period sold 3721 units.  […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-sales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9465"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14864,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9465\/revisions\/14864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}