Motor Vehicle Census

Out of interest I have been reading some stats on motor vehicle's registered in Australia related to VW's, these are cars currently registered at time of the census,

* Remember that these include all VW's, Type 1's, 2's, 3's etc..

* Obviously does not include cars that are no longer registered,


* How accurate do others feel these are?





Which can be found here:

http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/DetailsPage/9309.031%20Mar%202008?OpenDocument

NSW
Year of Manufacture Number of cars
1901 - 1950 2
1951 - 1960 217
1961 - 1970 1921
1971 - 1980 4228


TAS, NT, ACT
Year of Manufacture Number of cars
1901 - 1950 0
1951 - 1960 51
1961 - 1970 417
1971 - 1980 1320



VIC
Year of Manufacture Number of cars
1901 - 1950 2
1951 - 1960 241
1961 - 1970 1578
1971 - 1980 3725




QLD
Year of Manufacture Number of cars
1901 - 1950 1
1951 - 1960 94
1961 - 1970 1044
1971 - 1980 3277



SA,WA
Year of Manufacture Number of cars
1901 - 1950 3
1951 - 1960 225
1961 - 1970 2041
1971 - 1980 3781

That is really interesting.

Noticed that SA is way way over represented compared to states with higher populations.

I reckon this is all about our "easy" reg system not requiring RWC with sale.

Thoughts?

I didn't think we had that many pre 1950s VWs in Australia?

Smiley

smileyman3000 wrote:I didn't think we had that many pre 1950s VWs in Australia?

Smiley

Anything pre the late 1953 batch of Oval cars we got here, i.e. all splits would be private imports of some sort.