Again proving their worth as industry leaders in automotive sales, Toyota Motors and sports utility vehicles led the pack anew in the overall motor vehicle sales in November that slightly boosted Australia's car market in the month.

New data furnished on Friday by the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) showed that car sales inched up by mere 1.8 percent in November as compared to the sales figures posted in the same month in 2009.

The sales surge added 1509 more vehicles to the monthly national automotive sales, en route to a total of 87,342 car sales that mostly comprised of passenger cars, four-wheel drives and commercial vehicles.

As in the previous months, the ever-popular SUVs again took the cudgels for the motor vehicle industry as the segment registered a jump of 13.3 percent in total sales for November.

From the beginning of the year up to the end of November, Australian motor vehicles sales have so far achieved total sales of 948,987 units, to register an improvement of 11.8 percent when pitted to sales figures accounted throughout the same period last year.

FCAI said that the data would be generally reflected in the November vehicle sales numbers set to be released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) as chamber chief executive Andrew McKellar cited private buyers as the prime supporter of the continued strength of automotive market.

Private car buyers soared by 9.6 percent in the month and McKellar said that so far, the car industry performance has sustained its better numbers as against to those registered by the other economic indicators such as consumer spending and business investments.

The FCAI data also revealed that passenger car sales climbed by five percent in November while heavy commercial vehicle sales numbers soared by 6.2 percent though the light commercial segment suffered heavily as its posted declines of up to 18.9 percent.

Yet again, perennial leader Toyota muscled its way up to keep the top post as market leader as the Japanese carmaker chalked up total sales of 19,991 units in the month while local carmaker Holden managed to secure second place with its 11,354 total sales.

American subsidiary Ford Australia came in third by racking up total monthly sales 7844 in November.