{"id":710462,"date":"2023-08-13T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=710462"},"modified":"2023-08-11T17:22:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T15:22:35","slug":"these-are-the-most-in-demand-used-cars-in-south-africa-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/710462\/these-are-the-most-in-demand-used-cars-in-south-africa-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"These are the most in-demand used cars in South Africa right now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The average price of a used car in South Africa has come down over the last month, with the latest sales data from classifieds group Autotrader, marking a 0.9% drop in prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The group noted that the average listing price for a used vehicle is now R403,003, down from R406,747 in June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This drop in average price brings a measure of relief to consumers who face rising prices in just about every other sphere,\u201d said AutoTrader CEO George Mienie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sold units came with an average mileage of 72,721km and an 2018 average registration year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Autotrader, used car sales continued to pick up in July with sales growing by 8% month-on-month. A total of 32,090 units were sold, reflecting an increase of 2,434 units over June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current value of these used cars sold to date swelled a further 7.3% month-on-month to R12.93 billion, which was also 7.8% higher than July 2022\u2019s cumulative total of R12 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most popular brands<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Toyota, followed by Volkswagen and Ford sold the most used cars in July. Behind them, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Hyundai, Nissan, and Suzuki. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Interestingly, French carmaker Renault delivered a coup de gr\u00e2ce to KIA, moving up three spots on the most sold list and overtaking the Korean automaker in the ranking,” the group said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bakkie model battle continued to play out in July. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ford\u2019s Ranger led the way as the most sold used model ahead of the Toyota Hilux with the VW Polo and Polo Vivo following in third and fourth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The usual locally-built protagonists, Toyota Fortuner, Mercedes-Benz C-Class, BMW 3 Series, Ford EcoSport (imported model) Nissan NP200 and Isuzu D-Max completed the top ten ranking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the top-selling used variants, Volkswagen\u2019s locally-built hatchbacks outperformed the homegrown bakkies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The affordable VW Polo Vivo 1.4 claimed this trophy with sibling VW Polo 1.0TSI in second ahead of the Toyota Hilux 2.8GD-6, Ford Ranger XL and another Hilux variant, the 2.4GD-6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In July, it was Mercedes-Benz and Nissan that exhibited the biggest gains among the local carmakers with a 14.9% and 14.4% month-on-month growth in sales respectively. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suzuki however had the largest growth from a non-local manafacturer with a month-on-month growth of 24.3%, Autotrader said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1. Ford Ranger<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2. Toyota Hilux<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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3. VW Polo<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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4. VW Polo Vivo<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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5. Toyota Fortuner<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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6. Mercedes-Benz C-Class<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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7. BMW 3-Series<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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8. Ford Ecosport <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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9. Nissan NP200<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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10. Isuzu D-Max<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Read: Things you should know before buying a used car in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

South Africa’s used car market saw a positive turn in July, with Autotrader marking an 8% increase in sales – these are the hottest cars on the market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":662649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11119],"tags":[7176,26],"class_list":["post-710462","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\/710462","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=710462"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710488,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710462\/revisions\/710488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}