{"id":143695,"date":"2016-11-18T13:14:43","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T11:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=143695"},"modified":"2016-11-18T13:14:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T11:14:43","slug":"this-is-the-most-affordable-car-to-own-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/143695\/this-is-the-most-affordable-car-to-own-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"This is the most affordable car to own in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A report out in October provided South African motorists with guidance on how cheap or expensive it can be to service their vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kinseyreport.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">2016 Kinsey Report<\/a>\u00a0is published by veteran motoring scribe Malcolm Kinsey and is regarded as the most comprehensive survey on everyday motoring &#8211; covering 69 vehicles in nine categories.<\/p>\n<p>The report highlighted a list of prices of 34 parts and the cost of each \u201cparts basket\u201d as a percentage of a car\u2019s price.<\/p>\n<p>Kinsey priced in 11 &#8216;level entry&#8217; vehicles spanning cars priced from just more than R100,000 to R174,000.<\/p>\n<p>The Datsun Go was revealed as the overall winner in the category,\u00a0followed by the Nissan Micra,\u00a0and VW Polo Vivo.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Datsun Go<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0R43 193 [2015: R37 631]<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nissan Micra<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 R55 071 [2015:\u00a0R44 479]<\/li>\n<li><strong> VW Polo Vivo<\/strong> \u2013 R56 968 [2015:\u00a0R49 805]<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The categories used to rate cars in their defined market segments are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Category A (Service Items): covering everyday replaceable items, such as air filters, spark\/glow plugs, brake pads\/shoes and wiper blades.<\/li>\n<li>Category B (Repair Parts): covering major items, such as cam belts, shock absorbers, clutch and pressure plates, flywheels, and fan belts.<\/li>\n<li>Category C (Crash Parts): this looks at major replacement body costs, such as bonnets, grilles, doors, fenders and bumper skins, and light assemblies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Service costs are lowest for the Datsun Go and next best for the Chevrolet Spark (which suffers from comparatively high crash parts prices and comes in with the highest overall basket price of all).<\/p>\n<p>The repair parts prices are best for the Go and Micra and the Datsun Go scores top points ahead of the VW Polo for crash parts, Kinsey said.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese manufactured vehicle is also the cheapest in the &#8216;level entry&#8217; category to drive off the showroom floor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Datsun Go &#8211; From R106,000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Datsun-Go.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-98195\" src=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Datsun-Go.png\" alt=\"Datsun Go\" width=\"641\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Datsun-Go.png 600w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Datsun-Go-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 641px) 100vw, 641px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nissan Micra &#8211; From R159 900<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/NissanMicra-e1479467267445.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-143711 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/NissanMicra-1024x576.png\" alt=\"nissanmicra\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Polo Vivo &#8211; From R170,300<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Polo_Vivo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-143715\" src=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Polo_Vivo.jpg\" alt=\"polo_vivo\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Polo_Vivo.jpg 600w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Polo_Vivo-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Polo_Vivo-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/140267\/the-cheapest-and-most-expensive-cars-to-service-in-south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\">The cheapest and most expensive cars to service in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report out in October provided South African motorists with guidance on how cheap or expensive it can be to service their vehicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":130222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-143695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143695"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143721,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143695\/revisions\/143721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}