{"id":228931,"date":"2018-03-02T10:06:23","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T08:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=228931"},"modified":"2018-03-02T10:06:23","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T08:06:23","slug":"the-5-most-popular-car-brands-in-south-africa-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/228931\/the-5-most-popular-car-brands-in-south-africa-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"The 5 most popular car brands in South Africa right now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Naamsa has released its latest vehicle sales and exports report, with over\u00a092,124 vehicles sold in the first two months of 2018.<\/p>\n

In an analysis of the data, Absa said that this amounts to a 6.6% decrease when compared to\u00a0the 98,587 vehicles sold in the first two months of 2017.<\/p>\n

Of these cars sold, Absa said that 84% were sold by dealers to the public, 9.7% went to the rental industry, 2.6% were sold to government and 3.7% were sold to corporates.<\/p>\n

Cars sold in South Africa<\/strong><\/p>\n

Of the 46,347 new vehicles sold in South Africa in February 2018,\u00a0passenger vehicle sales accounted for 67.3% (31,200) of the sales.<\/p>\n

When looking at the five brands which were the most popular amongst South African drivers during this time period, Toyota <\/strong>was by far the most popular local brand at 10,264 passenger vehicles sold – with the Fortuner, Etios and Corolla all featuring on the top 10 best-selling cars list.<\/p>\n

Volkswagen was second with 7,519 cars sold (more than half of which was made up by the Polo and Polo Vivo), and Ford was third with 5,654 cars sold.<\/p>\n

In contrast 27,473 cars were exported in February 2018 with Mercedes exporting 10,891 vehicles,\u00a0Volkswagen\u00a0exporting 6,427, and Toyota exporting 5,346.<\/p>\n

Bestselling vehicles in South Africa\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Below are the\u00a010 best-selling passengers cars of February 2018, as provided by Naamsa:<\/p>\n

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  1. Volkswagen Polo \u2013 2,847<\/li>\n
  2. Volkswagen Polo Vivo \u2013 2,044<\/li>\n
  3. Toyota Corolla\/Auris\/Quest \u2013 1,302<\/li>\n
  4. Hyundai Grand i10 \u2013 1,008<\/li>\n
  5. Toyota Fortuner \u2013 1,006<\/li>\n
  6. Toyota Etios \u2013 990<\/li>\n
  7. Ford EcoSport \u2013 814<\/li>\n
  8. Ford Figo \u2013 775<\/li>\n
  9. Kia Picanto \u2013 686<\/li>\n
  10. Datsun GO \u2013 591<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    These are the car brands South African motorists are buying the most right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":142355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11119],"tags":[29,26],"class_list":["post-228931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring","tag-absa","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228931","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=228931"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228943,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228931\/revisions\/228943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}