Among the outstanding performers was Forester, with a monthly record of 1476.

Outback also had a record month of 694 units. This means Subaru captured 27.6 per cent of the SUV Compact market in June.

At the year's halfway point, Subaru has captured 3.7 per cent of the total vehicle market year-to-date, with a total of 17,537 sales - 2749 ahead of the same period last year.

Impreza achieved best ever June sales of 760 units, beating a record set in 1999.

Liberty sold 530 in June, 110 ahead of the same month in 2003.

Forester sales in June were 437 units ahead of the same month last year and 227 ahead of the previous monthly record, set in December 2003.

Outback was 114 units ahead of June 2003, and beat its previous all-time record of 655 set in July 2001.

Nick Senior, General Manager, Subaru Australia, said: "We are delighted to be in such a strong position at the year's mid-point and with a variety of refinements pending across our model year 2005 range due soon, we are confident of bringing even more customers to the Subaru brand."