{"id":57312,"date":"2026-10-03T00:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T22:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/sa-new-vehicle-sales-power-ahead\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T00:00:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T22:00:05","slug":"sa-new-vehicle-sales-power-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/sa-new-vehicle-sales-power-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"SA new vehicle sales power ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As naamsa reflects on the new vehicle sales performance at the close of the third quarter, September marked a global financial market recalibration. Higher oil prices amid the escalating conflict added renewed inflation risks with major central banks adjusting monetary policy rates by 25 basis points. In response, the South African Reserve Bank&#039;s Monetary Policy Committee increased the repo rate by 25 basis points to 7.25%, resulting in a prime lending rate of 10.75%. At the same time, the SARB revised its inflation outlook upward and maintained a cautious assessment of the economic environment. Despite these macroeconomic headwinds, South Africa&#039;s domestic new vehicle market has continued to demonstrate notable resilience, defying expectations amid higher borrowing costs, persistent inflationary pressures, and subdued economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa&#039;s new vehicle market recorded aggregate domestic sales of 61,645 units in September 2026, representing a 12,7% increase compared&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=78771&#038;page=sa-new-vehicle-sales-power-ahead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As naamsa reflects on the new vehicle sales performance at the close of the third quarter, September marked a global financial market recalibration. Higher oil prices amid the escalating conflict added renewed inflation risks with major central banks adjusting monetary policy rates by 25 basis points. In response, the South African Reserve Bank&#039;s Monetary Policy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/1(9).png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/1(9).png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}