Vehicles in South Africa
An intriguing pattern was discovered while examining South Africa's comprehensive new-vehicle sales data for December 2022. Including trucks, bakkies, and minibuses but omitting the passenger-vehicle market, as many as 20 models were only able to register one vehicle in the month.
There may be a number of reasons why a particular model range only manages to generate a single sale throughout the course of an entire trade month. For example, numerous carmakers continue to face supply problems brought on by the semi transmitter crisis, wider shipping challenges, and frequently occurring production halts.
Poor Volume Sales
Also there are variants that just have poor volume sales. This might be the case because they're marketed to a very specific segment within the market, they're quite pricey, or for any number of other reasons they're not very well-liked by local purchasers.
For nstance, below include the all-electric e-tron GT and e-tron Sportback from Audi, as well as the RS4 Avant, A7 Sportback, and S8 sedan.
Additional Models
Similar circumstances apply to the BMW Z4 and Lexus LC 500. It's a little surprising that only one Honda HR-V found a place in June 2022, despite the fact that it only recently debuted locally. Intriguingly, a number of Stellantis vehicles, such as the Abarth 595, Alfa Romeo Giulia, Alfa Romeo Stelvio, Citroen C3, Fiat Tipo, and Opel Combo Life, concluded December 2022 with just one registration each.
