News recap: best stories from the week that was ICYMI

After 31 months in a row of year-on-year sales decline – the longest slump since the Global Financial Crisis of a decade ago – November finally saw a market recovery as Australia came out of COVID-19 lockdowns. Sales went up for the first time in two-and-a-half years. The industry is still cautious, however, because many of the cars delivered in November were orders carried over from previous months, during the peak of the lockdown.