Latest vehicle sales ‘a hammer blow’ to industry hopes
But while the local market is looking bleak, foreign buyers are snapping up SA vehicles
02 September 2019 - 14:44
New-vehicle sales maintained their depressingly familiar downward path in August.
Demand for cars and commercial vehicles fell 5.1% compared with a year earlier, from 47,977 to 44,566. Cars, as so often this year, underperformed the overall market, retreating 7.6% from 31,456 to 29,075...
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