{"id":9597,"date":"2012-04-03T15:48:25","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T13:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/s-africas-march-new-vehicle-sales-up-4-8-pct-yy\/"},"modified":"2012-04-03T15:48:25","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T13:48:25","slug":"s-africas-march-new-vehicle-sales-up-4-8-pct-yy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-march-new-vehicle-sales-up-4-8-pct-yy\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa&#8217;s March new vehicle sales up 4.8 pct y\/y"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, April 3<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s total new<br \/>\nvehicle sales increased by 4.8 percent year-on-year to 56,110<br \/>\nunits in March, the National Association of Automobile<br \/>\nManufacturers (NAAMSA) said on Tuesday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But exports declined by 20.2 percent to 23,956 units in<br \/>\nMarch compared to the same month last year, with sales to Europe<br \/>\nhit by the recession and debt crisis in that region, NAAMSA said<br \/>\nin a statement.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Factors that (will) continue to lend support to the<br \/>\ndomestic market include the recent marginal improvement in the<br \/>\nfinancial position of consumers, relatively low interest rates,<br \/>\ncontinuing improvement in vehicle affordability in real<br \/>\nterms&#8230;,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sharp increases in energy and transport costs would however<br \/>\nhit consumers&#8217; disposable income in the months ahead, limiting<br \/>\nsales growth in the sector to modest single digit levels, NAAMSA<br \/>\nsaid. \t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Stella Mapenzauswa)<\/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, April 3 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s total new vehicle sales increased by 4.8 percent year-on-year to 56,110 units in March, the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers (NAAMSA) said on Tuesday. But exports declined by 20.2 percent to 23,956 units in March compared to the same month last year, with sales to Europe hit by [&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-9597","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\/9597","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=9597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}