Local sales of General Motors cars collapsed last month, following the US-owned company’s decision to disinvest from SA at the end of 2017. In April, before the news broke, General Motors SA sold 730 cars. Following the May 18 announcement of its intended departure, June sales fell to 427. Chevrolet cars, which will disappear from the local market after December, fared worst, tumbling from 407 to 164. The little Chevrolet Utility pick-up, on the other hand, increased sales. One of only two small bakkies left in the market, with the Nissan NP200, it has a loyal customer base and is expected to remain popular until it is also discontinued in December. The Opel car brand, which will remain after being sold by General Motors, also lost sales last month but will be reassured by the limited scale of the decline: from 323 to 263. From 2018 it will be distributed in SA by the Williams Hunt dealer network, part of the Unitrans transport and logistics group. Overall, the local new-vehicle mar...
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