{"id":8518,"date":"2012-03-02T14:49:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T12:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/s-africas-february-new-vehicle-sales-up-6-4-pct-yy\/"},"modified":"2012-03-02T14:49:21","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T12:49:21","slug":"s-africas-february-new-vehicle-sales-up-6-4-pct-yy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-february-new-vehicle-sales-up-6-4-pct-yy\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa&#8217;s February new vehicle sales up 6.4 pct y\/y"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, March 2<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s total<br \/>\nnew vehicle sales increased by 6.4 percent year-on-year to<br \/>\n52,356 units in February, the National Association of Automobile<br \/>\nManufacturers (NAAMSA) said on Friday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The February total sales industry numbers includes data from<br \/>\nMercedes-Benz South Africa although the firm is currently<br \/>\nreporting restricted information under a directive from German<br \/>\nparent company Daimler.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Naamsa said exports of South African-produced vehicles,<br \/>\nincluding Mercedes-Benz SA, were down 10 percent at 22,630 units<br \/>\ncompared to 25,155 vehicles exported during February last year.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Vehicle exports into Europe (are) likely to soften as a<br \/>\nresult of the recession and debt crisis in the euro zone,&#8221; the<br \/>\nassociation said, adding this could be offset by higher export<br \/>\nvolumes to other African countries.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The outlook for 2012 was for modest growth in total industry<br \/>\nsales, helped by relatively low interest rates for consumers and<br \/>\nan improvement in vehicle affordability.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Stella Mapenzauswa, editing by Xola Potelwa)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG, March 2 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s total new vehicle sales increased by 6.4 percent year-on-year to 52,356 units in February, the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers (NAAMSA) said on Friday. The February total sales industry numbers includes data from Mercedes-Benz South Africa although the firm is currently reporting restricted information under a directive from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-8518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}