Market insight: Private car buyers shun diesel

PRIVATE passenger car customers are buying more hybrids than diesels for the first time in Australia, underscoring the slipping popularity of oil-burning engines in traditional sedans, hatchbacks and sportscars.

Petrol-powered cars still account for 96 per cent of the 153,696 passenger vehicles sold to private buyers in the first nine months of 2018, but petrol-electric hybrids have made inroads at the fringes, seemingly at the expense of diesels.

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