{"id":58040,"date":"2026-11-12T14:45:03","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T12:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/south-africans-bought-more-used-cars-in-october-as-prices-dropped\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T14:45:03","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T12:45:03","slug":"south-africans-bought-more-used-cars-in-october-as-prices-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/south-africans-bought-more-used-cars-in-october-as-prices-dropped\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africans bought more used cars in October as prices dropped"},"content":{"rendered":"

October brought stronger sales across the used car market, with Toyota extending its lead and several popular models posting double-digit growth.<\/p>\n

At a Glance – October Car Sales<\/p>\n

Used Cars<\/p>\n

• Sales: 36,046 (+6.6% MoM, +8.2% YoY)
\n• Average price: R404,898 (-6.5% MoM, -2.7% YoY)
\n• Top seller (overall): Ford Ranger (1,920 units)
\n• Top seller (passenger car): Volkswagen Polo Vivo (1,404 units)
\n• Trend: October used-car sales climbed sharply month-on-month, while the gap between the Ford Ranger and Toyota Hilux narrowed further.<\/p>\n

South Africa’s used car market recorded a strong October, with sales increasing both month-on-month and year-on-year. Toyota extended its lead as the country’s top-selling used car brand, while the Toyota Hilux closed the gap to the Ford Ranger considerably, according to the latest AutoTrader used sales data. <\/p>\n

A total of 36,046 used vehicles were sold in October, up +6.6% from the 33,824 units…<\/p>\n

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October brought stronger sales across the used car market, with Toyota extending its lead and several popular models posting double-digit growth. At a Glance – October Car Sales Used Cars • Sales: 36,046 (+6.6% MoM, +8.2% YoY) • Average price: R404,898 (-6.5% MoM, -2.7% YoY) • Top seller (overall): Ford Ranger (1,920 units) • Top […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58041,"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\/image-credit-pexels-vitality-gariev-.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/image-credit-pexels-vitality-gariev-.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58040","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=58040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}