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Corolla First to 40,000 Buyers (414)

Toyota's Corolla has become the first vehicle in Australia to pass 40,000 sales this year, according to the latest official figures.

Corolla was the best-selling vehicle in Australia last year and has a small lead in 2014 with 40,189 local buyers after 11 months of sales.

Success for Corolla - and other prominent Toyota vehicle brands including HiLux and Camry - has enabled the company's dealers to deliver more than 184,400 vehicles so far this year.

As a result, Toyota is set to be confirmed as the country's best-selling automotive brand for 2014, making it Toyota's 12th year in a row as the outright market leader.

Toyota's 11-month tally represents an average of 550 vehicles delivered each day of the year so far. No other brand has reached 100,000 sales for the same period, which translates to them delivering on average fewer than 300 vehicles per day.

Sales figures to the end of November also reveal Camry is on track to be Australia's top-selling mid-size car for the 21st straight year, while HiLux has a commanding lead as the country's best-selling ute and the most popular four-wheel drive vehicle.

In November, customers bought 15,995 Toyota vehicles - a margin of 7,395 vehicles or almost 86 per cent ahead of any other brand.

Toyota's executive director sales and marketing Tony Cramb said Toyota and the wider automotive industry continued to generate healthy demand for new vehicles from private and business buyers.

"Total industry sales will reach 1.1 million for only the third year ever on the back of strong offers and generally favourable economic conditions, including continued low interest rates," Mr Cramb said.

"This will also be the 10th year that Toyota customers have bought at least 200,000 vehicles, a record that is unprecedented in the local automotive sector," he said.