{"id":328825,"date":"2019-07-14T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T10:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=328825"},"modified":"2019-07-12T15:45:06","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T13:45:06","slug":"the-10-most-searched-for-suvs-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/328825\/the-10-most-searched-for-suvs-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"The 10 most searched-for SUVs in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) is now the most popular vehicle segment in the world, with over 29.77 million SUVs sold across the world in 2018.<\/p>\n

SUVs also claimed the highest market share ever – 36.4% in 2018, 2.5 percentage points up on 2017.<\/p>\n

This increasing popularity has also been seen in South Africa according to Autotrader’s statistics for the first six months of 2019.<\/p>\n

AutoTrader is the largest and most visited motoring marketplace in the country, is viewed as a highly accurate barometer of consumer buying preferences<\/p>\n

AutoTrader CEO George Mienie said that the Toyota Land Cruiser is currently the most searched for SUV on the site, followed by the Range Rover Sport and the Mercedes-Benz GL. Other popular SUVs include the Volkswagen Touareg and the BMW X5.<\/p>\n

You can find a complete list of the most searched for SUV\u2019s in South Africa below:<\/p>\n

Toyota Land Cruiser<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Land Rover Range Rover Sport<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Mercedes-Benz GL<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Land Rover Freelander 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

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VW Touareg<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nBMW X5<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nVW Tiguan<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nBMW X3<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nLand Rover Range Rover Ve<\/strong>lar<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nToyota RAV4<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Read: New Volkswagen T-Cross \u2013 South African pricing and release dates<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These are the most searched for SUVs in South Africa according to Autotrader. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":115540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11119],"tags":[7176,26],"class_list":["post-328825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring","tag-autotrader","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328825","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=328825"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328987,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328825\/revisions\/328987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}