{"id":57830,"date":"2026-11-03T03:15:04","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T01:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/naamsa-releases-october-new-vehicle-sales-stats\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T03:15:04","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T01:15:04","slug":"naamsa-releases-october-new-vehicle-sales-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/naamsa-releases-october-new-vehicle-sales-stats\/","title":{"rendered":"naamsa Releases October New Vehicle Sales Stats"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Africa’s new vehicle market recorded continued growth in October 2026, despite persistent cost-of-living pressures affecting consumers. Aggregate domestic sales reached 61,890 units in October 2026, representing a 5,839 unit, or 10,4% increase compared with the 56,051 units sold during October 2025. Export sales surprised on the upside, reaching 38,117 units and reflecting a 6.3% increase compared with the corresponding month last year.<\/p>\n

Of the total reported industry sales of 61,890 vehicles, an estimated 48,234 units, or 78,0% represented dealer sales, 16,5% sales to the vehicle rental industry, 3,3% to government purchases, and 2,2% to corporate fleet sales.<\/p>\n

The October 2026 new passenger car market registered 45,084 units, reflecting an increase of 5,380 units, or 13,6% compared to the 39,704 units sold in October 2025. The car rental industry accounted for a sound 21,4% of new passenger vehicle sales during the month.<\/p>\n

Domestic sales of new light commercial vehicles,…<\/p>\n

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South Africa’s new vehicle market recorded continued growth in October 2026, despite persistent cost-of-living pressures affecting consumers. Aggregate domestic sales reached 61,890 units in October 2026, representing a 5,839 unit, or 10,4% increase compared with the 56,051 units sold during October 2025. Export sales surprised on the upside, reaching 38,117 units and reflecting a 6.3% […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57831,"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\/Screenshot%202026-11-02%20160915.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/Screenshot%202026-11-02%20160915.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57830","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=57830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}