New Zealand Car Sales By Brand : 1985-89

Car assembly plant Petone, Wellington, NZ. Hillman then Mitsubishi cars were assembled there.


Things were changing in the 1980's for the NZ car industry. Import duty on new cars started to be progressively removed and there was a relaxing of restrictions on used cars being imported. The bottom of the chart below shows used import numbers starting to impact on the market. The used cars were