{"id":342653,"date":"2019-09-24T18:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=342653"},"modified":"2019-09-23T16:56:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T14:56:34","slug":"south-africas-top-10-most-searched-for-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/342653\/south-africas-top-10-most-searched-for-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa\u2019s top 10 most searched for cars"},"content":{"rendered":"

The highly aspirational nature of GTI models produced by Volkswagen has been reaffirmed by an analysis of the most-searched-for individual variants on AutoTrader.<\/p>\n

The digital automotive marketplace, which boasts over a million searches per day, uses a comprehensive and structured VIN database serving as a\u00a0 proxy for the local automotive market demand and supply.<\/p>\n

According to George Mienie, chief executive officer of AutoTrader, the Volkswagen Golf GTI is currently the most-searched-for variant.<\/p>\n

It made up almost 3% of total variant searches, he said.<\/p>\n

The second spot is occupied by the Volkswagen Golf GTI\u2019s sibling, the Volkswagen Polo GTI. It accounted for 2.54% of all searches, which is also remarkable, said Mienie.<\/p>\n

Rounding off the top three is yet another Volkswagen model. \u201cThe third most searched-for individual variant is the Golf R. This is testament to the power of the Volkswagen brand, and a clear indication that the company\u2019s performance models are some of the most desirable\u2019\u2019 Mienie said.<\/p>\n

Occupying the fourth and fifth spots are two models that, while hailing from the same manufacturer, are quite different vehicles.<\/p>\n

The Ford Ranger Wildtrak bakkie clocks in at fourth, followed very closely by yet another performance car, the Ford Focus ST.<\/p>\n

Sixth, seventh and eighth places are all occupied by luxury German cars. In number six is the BMW 320i, followed by the Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG and finally, the BMW 320d. Yet another Ford \u2013 the Fiesta ST \u2013 clocks in ninth while the Audi S3 2.0 rounds off the top 10.<\/p>\n

Top 10 most searched for variant<\/strong><\/p>\n

Volkswagen Golf GTI<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Volkswagen Polo GTI<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Volkswagen Golf R<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ford Ranger Wildtrak<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ford Focus ST<\/strong><\/p>\n

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BMW 3 Series 320i<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Mercedes-AMG C-Class C63<\/strong><\/p>\n

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BMW 3 Series 320d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ford Fiesta ST<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Audi S3 2.0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Read: Top 10 environmentally friendly cars in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The highly aspirational nature of GTI models produced by Volkswagen has been reaffirmed by an analysis of the most searched-for individual variants on AutoTrader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":342717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11119],"tags":[7176,26],"class_list":["post-342653","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\/342653","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=342653"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342745,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342653\/revisions\/342745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}