{"id":314720,"date":"2019-05-13T13:07:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T11:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=314720"},"modified":"2019-05-13T14:33:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T12:33:48","slug":"these-are-the-ultra-luxury-cars-that-south-africans-are-buying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wealth\/314720\/these-are-the-ultra-luxury-cars-that-south-africans-are-buying\/","title":{"rendered":"These are the ultra-luxury cars that South Africans are buying"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wealthy South Africans have clear favourites when it comes to the luxury cars that they are buying.<\/p>\n

Credit Suisse estimates<\/a> <\/strong>that 61,000 South Africans are members of the top 1% of global wealth holders, and that 50,000 are US dollar millionaires.<\/p>\n

While luxury car makers have been historically tight-lipped about the number of cars that they sell, the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa’s (Naamsa) sales data for April 2019 provides some idea.<\/p>\n

The sector is typically defined by large swings due to the small number of units sold but Porsche has consistently dominated the bestsellers list, with the manufacturer selling 105 cars in the country in April.<\/p>\n

By comparison, Maserati sold seven vehicles, Bentley and Scuderia sold six each, and Lamborghini sold three vehicles.<\/p>\n

Below BusinessTech looked at some of the cars that were sold and how much they cost.<\/p>\n

Bentley Bentayga V8 – from R 2,950,000<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Bentley Continental GT W12 – from R3,395,000<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Bentley Mulsanne – from R6,152,000<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ferrari 488 GTB – POA<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ferrari Portofino – from R4,766,700<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ferrari 488 Pista – POA<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ferrari 488 Spider – POA<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Porsche Macan – from R849,000<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Porsche 718 Cayman – from R870,000<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Porsche Panamera – from R1,361,000<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Maserati Ghibli <\/strong> – POA<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Maserati Levante – POA<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Maserati Quattroporte – POA<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Read: The classic cars, watches, and paintings that the world\u2019s richest people are buying right now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wesbank’s finance data for April 2019 shows that the average South African is spending around R316,840 on a new car right now, however a number of motorists are spending substantially more as they shell out for new supercars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":314782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9880],"tags":[26,6619],"class_list":["post-314720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wealth","tag-headline","tag-wesbank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314720","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=314720"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316528,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314720\/revisions\/316528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}