{"id":206593,"date":"2019-06-04T09:02:16","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T07:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/car\/bad-news-new-vehicle-sales\/"},"modified":"2020-10-01T14:56:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T12:56:51","slug":"bad-news-new-vehicle-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/motoring\/2019\/06\/04\/bad-news-new-vehicle-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"More bad news for new vehicle sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The drop in sales is attributed to subdued economic circumstances, low consumer and business confidence levels, less disposable income in households and negative global economic growth forecasts. However, the medium and heavy truck segments saw a small increase in sales, reporting an increase of 0.3% and vehicle exports also reporting a positive 20.1% increase for the first five months in comparison to 2018.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-133011\" src=\"https:\/\/alexnews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/n2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"999\" \/><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='b16ec67dab6915d8c76c7434ed6766c7'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to, The National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa, new car sales saw a decrease of 5.7% or 2444 units when compared to May 2018. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8257,"featured_media":206594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Autodealer","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Motoring","SubCategory":"Bikes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}