South Africa

South Africa Auto Sales in 2018 declined for the 5th time in a row, ending the year with registrations at 525.159 units, down 1.3%. Toyota is the market leader, taking a huge gap from Volkswagen and Ford.

South Africa best selling cars ranking in the 2015 led by Volkswagen Polo Vivo locally produced and dominator since years with a good gap over the pick ups Toyota Hilux and Ford Ranger.

South Africa best-selling cars ranking in 2019 was dominated by three models with a combined share above 23%. Indeed, the Volkswagen Polo, the Toyota Hilux and the Ford Ranger held a huge market share, despite of the growth new models like Renault Kwid.

S Africa vehicles sales in 2016 fell down for the third year in a row hit by recession and currency depreciation. Mercedes was the best brand, avoiding to lose volume as done by almost all competitors.

South Africa Auto Market is tracked with the last decade sales figures by all brands and models. You can have access to an Excel Dataset or to a Market Report, including next year's forecast.

South Africa Auto market in 2021 rises by 20.5% with 464,743 sales, reporting a strong performance except for Q1 (-0.7%). Haval enters the leaderboard and reports the best performance this year, gaining 146.4%.

South Africa Auto Sales in August 2024 fell after growing for 4 consecutive months, reporting 41,909 new registrations (-0.9%). YTD figures at 327,978  were up 5.5% compared to the prior year. Chery  grew 435.8% and rose 10 spots, ranking in 7th.  

South Africa best selling cars 2016 dominated by the Volkswagen Polo with a wide gap over two archrival, the Toyota Hilux and the Ford Ranger fighting for the second place.

South Africa Auto Sales moderately declined in 2023. Following the previous two years recovery, the marke lost 4.4% at 485.175. However, the market leader Toyota kept increasing the gap over all followers.

South Africa Auto Sales in 2019 were disappointing again. Indeed, Total annual sales have been 508.573, down 3.2% from the previous year, the worst score in the last nine years. Suzuki and Mahindra were the fastest brands while almost all the best selling 5 brands were declining.