April was a particularly hot sales month for Hyundai, which had three reasons to pop corks.
For the first time in its three-decade history in Australia, the South Korean car maker was the top seller in new passenger cars such as sedans and hatches.
The second high achievement was the brand's i30 hatch being the top-selling car.
And, third, a Hyundai selling blitz in WA pretty much single-handedly lifted car sales out of the doldrums.
In national new-vehicle sales for   April, Hyundai had a month-on-month sales leap of 20 per cent compared with the market's 7 per cent.
Of the brand's 8643 sales, 6324 were passenger cars, beating Toyota's 5966 for this category.
A whopping 4143 of Hyundai sales were i30s, the auto version of which was regularly offered at a heavily discounted $19,990 drive away.
The top brand was Toyota (up 8 per cent), which also provided four of the top 10 selling models.
Next came Hyundai, Mazda (up 5 per cent), Ford (up 33 per cent) and Holden (down 5 per cent).
Ford's leap came from models such as the Ranger (1710 to 2534 sales), Mondeo (44 to 202) and new Everest (226).
Other brands that had rapid growth nationally included Jaguar (186 per cent), BMW (58), Volvo (57), Kia (31), Mercedes-Benz (25), Lexus (24) and Land Rover (22).
Hyundai's performance in WA was startling, the car maker's 913 sales representing a 46 per cent surge on   April last year.
That result and a spike in sales of flashy sports cars helped WA dealers to shift 7601 new cars in   April, an almost identical result to   April last year.
That's an excellent result, given there was a 4 per cent drop in sales in the first quarter and a poor   March, when sales dived by 8 per cent.
Surprisingly, the   April boost locally didn't spring from the usual suspect, the SUV segment.
Much of the spark came from regular passenger cars, such as the Hyundai Accent hatch's rise from 38 to 221 sales month-on-month and the i30 more than doubling sales to a tick under 400. The Accent helped WA's light-car sector to lift by 10 per cent month-on-month after being a whopping 20 per cent down in the first quarter.
Other light cars to lift their   April game in WA included the Mazda2, which went from 59 to 70 sales, Honda Jazz (35 to 53) and luxury Audi A1 (5 to 26).
Also reversing their first- quarter trajectories in WA were the small and medium- passenger categories, which were up 5 and 7 per cent respectively.
The mid-sized car sales lift came largely from the Toyota Camry (88 to 134 sales).
In a State experiencing a mining boom tail-off, sports cars racing out of showrooms - 163 versus 110 a year earlier - seemed weird.
But drilling deeper, the spike came from two recently released models - the much- anticipated Ford Mustang (59 sales) and acclaimed Mazda MX-5 (27).
WA's SUV sales had a rare slip - by one per cent month- on-month - though are still up by 4 per cent for the year.
More predictable were the falls in sales of commercial vehicles, with the light variety down 5 per cent and the heavies 26 per cent.
Hyundai's performance in WA
 was startling, the car maker's 913 
sales representing a 46 per cent 
surge on   April last year.
 AUSSIE APRIL TOP 10  
 Hyundai i30 4143 
 Toyota HiLux 3384
 Ford Ranger 2973
 Toyota Corolla 2959
 Mazda3 2512
 Holden Commodore 1908
 Mazda CX-5 1675
 Hyundai Accent 1555
 Toyota Rav4 1524
 Toyota Camry 1511