{"id":336201,"date":"2019-08-25T16:00:55","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=336201"},"modified":"2019-08-23T13:47:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T11:47:40","slug":"the-second-hand-cars-south-africans-are-buying-right-now-and-how-much-they-are-paying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/336201\/the-second-hand-cars-south-africans-are-buying-right-now-and-how-much-they-are-paying\/","title":{"rendered":"The second-hand cars South Africans are buying right now and how much they are paying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>M<span class=\"st\">otoring marketplace<\/span> Autotrader has published its car industry report for 2019, outlining the cars that South Africans are buying right now and how much they pay.<\/p>\n<p>The report, based on Autotrader data, shows that the average mileage for the top 10 cars sold was 78,952km with the average price of R268,471.<\/p>\n<p>The Volkswagen Polo was the top-selling vehicle, selling 88% of its total stock at an average price of R212,748, with an average year model of 2015 and an average mileage of 53,360km.<\/p>\n<p>In second, the Volkswagen Polo Vivo sold 90% of its total available stock in the last year, with an average selling price of R161,734, an average mileage of 43,013km and an average year model of 2017.<\/p>\n<p>To round up the top three, the Ford Ranger sold 84% of its total stock, with the average year model being 2015, an average mileage of 88,835km and an average selling price of R288,990.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Autorader.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-336211\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Autorader.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Autorader.png 679w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Autorader-233x300.png 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While VW reigns supreme when it comes to new car sales, BMW is the most-searched-for brand online.<\/p>\n<p>According to George Mienie, AutoTrader CEO, 7.1% of all online searches on AutoTrader go to BMW brand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The total number of online searches in all vehicle categories is also growing,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In fact, total searches reached an all-time high of 290 million over the period reported on in the report (July 2018 to June 2019). This represents approximately 30% growth year-on-year,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/336081\/the-best-pre-owned-cars-to-buy-in-south-africa-in-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The best pre-owned cars to buy in South Africa in 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autotrader has released its car industry report for 2019, outlining the cars that South Africans are buying right now and how much they are paying for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":310064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11119],"tags":[7176,26],"class_list":["post-336201","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\/336201","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=336201"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336619,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336201\/revisions\/336619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}