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In 2004, South Africa was responsible for the manufacture of 84% of all vehicles produced in Africa, 7 million of which are on the South African roads. Also in 2004, the industry made a 6.7% contribution to the GDP of South Africa and 29% of all South African manufacturers made up the country's automotive industry. 2004 also saw 110,000 ...
Hi-Tech Automotive is a low volume, specialist car builder and design house located in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. [1] Most of the vehicles produced are exported, notably to the US and UK . The main distributor of the cars built by Hi-Tech is Superformance .
The one millionth Corolla was manufactured in South Africa in 2013. [9] In 2014, the Hilux, Fortuner, all Hino models and Ses'fikile taxis were produced from kits at the Toyota plant in Prospecton near Durban. [6] In Q4 2021, Toyota started assembling the Corolla Cross in South Africa. [10]
The BMW 530MLE in 1976 was the second car that BMW’s fledgling M division produced, and it was designed to compete in South Africa's Modified Production Series instead of the regular E12 528i. 100 homologated road cars had to be produced by BMW South Africa under the regulations, with 105 to 110 of these eventually being sold to the public. [11]
The brand ceded production rights for a limited time to other companies, including Brazilian companies Araucária Veículos Ltda first and Alfa Metais Veículos Ltda later, and also to a company in South Africa in the years 1973–1974, 1989–1991, 2007, and finally 2014 when the production rights for Puma models expired.
In 1988, Ford withdrew from South Africa for economic and political reasons. [6] Samcor produced car and commercial vehicle models of the Ford and Mazda brands as well as the South African version of the Mazda 323 as Sao Penza. A source confirms the sale of the Mazda 323 under the Sao Penza brand name in the UK between 1991 and 1992. [7]
Birkin Cars, Ltd. is a South African-based car manufacturer. The company's specialty and only currently-produced vehicle is the S3 Roadster , a kit-car copy of the Lotus Super 7 . The founder and owner of the company is John Watson, a descendant of pioneering race car driver Tim Birkin .
The EB Cloete Interchange, officially called the Abdullah Mohamed Omar Interchange, near Durban in South Africa is the interchange between two national roads that pass through Durban: the N2 and N3. The only four-level stack interchange in South Africa has been given various nicknames, the most famous one is Spaghetti Junction .