Vehicle ownership and useage in New Zealand

In this video I look at a report on New Zealand Vehicle ownership and Usage.

The take aways are:
80% of New Zealanders have cars, that is to say we own about one car for each person with a drivers licence.

We drive about 9,000km (6,000 miles) per year. This was around 14,000 km 20 years ago.

We drive new cars more and old cars less, this may account for the parent decrease in the above paragraph, we keep the cars longer and drive them less, but drive our new cars mainly.

About 45% of our cars are imported from Japan as used cars, and theses tend to be 10 years old and have 1.6 to 2 Litre engines, they are more economic than the average new car.

People who buy new cars, tend to buy 2.0 to 3.0 Litre petrol cars, and 2.5 to 4.0L diesel vehicles.

The average age of vehicles is about 14.5 years, (in EU, UK and US, this is around 11 years old), we had a younger vehicle fleet 20 years ago, at about 11 years old, at that time we tended to import younger cars at about 6.5 years old.

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