{"id":336509,"date":"2019-08-23T10:35:30","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T08:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=336509"},"modified":"2019-08-23T11:21:02","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T09:21:02","slug":"citroen-will-start-selling-new-cars-in-south-africa-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/336509\/citroen-will-start-selling-new-cars-in-south-africa-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Citro\u00ebn will start selling new cars in South Africa again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Citro\u00ebn is bringing new cars to South Africa later in 2019 as the French carmaker looks to re-enter the market.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, Citro\u00ebn <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/146509\/french-car-maker-to-shut-up-shop-in-south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced<\/a> <\/strong>that it would discontinue new car sales in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Citing poor sales for the decision, the company said at the time that Peugeot-Citro\u00ebn South Africa (PCSA) would continue to service its current customer base, honouring warranties and service plans through its PCSA dealer network.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to BusinessTech, the PCSA&#8217;s Sharon Garson said that while the company had technically never left the country, this would be the first time in several years that it will be introducing new models.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Citro\u00ebn never left South Africa and we have always had a presence in the country,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, this is the first time in two to three years that Citro\u00ebn will be introducing new cars to the market.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Garson said that the company had decided to take this hiatus as the current model line-up did not appeal to the current South African market.<\/p>\n<p>She declined to comment on which cars would be making their way to the South African market, but confirmed that an announcement would be made later this year.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2016, Citro\u00ebn announced that it would discontinue new car sales in South Africa.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":109059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11119],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-336509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336509","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=336509"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336529,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336509\/revisions\/336529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}