New-vehicle sales fell 8.1% in January from a year earlier. However, German carmaker BMW’s decision to withhold details of monthly sales around the world makes it difficult to draw conclusions from the first month of sales in 2020.

BMW has decided that, in future, the group and its subsidiaries, including BMW SA, will publish sales figures every quarter, instead of monthly. As a result, figures published Monday by the department of trade and industry do not offer a clear picture of the state of the SA market...

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