{"id":102720,"date":"2019-10-02T09:32:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T07:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/car\/naamsa-reports-vehicle-sales-still-low\/"},"modified":"2020-10-01T16:02:21","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T14:02:21","slug":"naamsa-reports-vehicle-sales-still-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/uncategorized\/2019\/10\/02\/naamsa-reports-vehicle-sales-still-low\/","title":{"rendered":"NAAMSA reports vehicle sales are still low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For September, 37 707 of the total units sold, 76,7% represented dealer sales while an estimated 18,9% represented the rental industry. 3,1% of the total sales came from industry corporate fleets, and 1,3% from the government.\u00a0The total domestic new vehicles sold came to 49 191 units, 0.9% or 439 units less than the corresponding month in 2018.\u00a0 The new passenger vehicle market saw a small but welcome increase of 1.1% or 358 units in comparison to last year and reflects the steady increase in sales as the year progress.<\/p>\n<p>Commercial vehicles, bakkies and mini-buses sold a total of 13 473 units, 6.2% or 894 units less than last year while heavy trucks and buses sold the same amount as last year September. The medium commercial vehicle segment saw an increase of 14.0% with 790 units leaving dealerships. While export sales recorded a decline of 1 097 in comparison to September last year, the market has performed well since the beginning of 2019 and is already reflecting 18.8% higher than last year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-237598\" src=\"https:\/\/sandtonchronicle.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2019\/10\/NAAMSA-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"566\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-237599\" src=\"https:\/\/sandtonchronicle.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2019\/10\/NAAMSA-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"568\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although there was a slight increase in the volume passenger car segment due to strong sales to the car rental industry, overall units are still down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8257,"featured_media":102721,"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":[24902],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring"],"category_labels":{"Category":"Motoring","SubCategory":"Bikes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}