WA vehicles sales drop 17%: ABS

New motor vehicle sales in Western Australia fell by more than 17 per cent in February to a seasonally adjusted 8,398 units, new figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show.

The February figure is a 1.9 per cent dip from the previous month's 8,558 units.

In comparison to the previous corresponding period, sales fell 17.6 per cent from 10,189 units.

Nationally, new motor vehicle sales fell by 3.5 per cent, seasonally adjusted, to 73,190 units in February, from 75,879 units in January.

Compared to the 2008 February result, sales have dropped by a seasonally adjusted 18.6 per cent.