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With 36,315 vehicles, Volkswagen became the best-selling brand in South Africa for the first time in 1973. In 1974, the plant became a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group. [1] In 2011, the plant in Uitenhage was the only non-European plant, besides the subsidiary in Mexico, that exported vehicles. [3]
The company, led by CEO George Mienie, has since transitioned from only an automotive classifieds magazine business to an online business via autotrader.co.za. In 2013, four local shareholders acquired autotrader.co.za. as well. [13] On 2 November 2017, The Competition Tribunal approved the merger between AutoTraderZA & Naspers subsidiary OLX ...
Daimler-Benz AG acquired 50.1 percent of United Cars and Diesel Distributors in 1984 which became Mercedes-Benz of South Africa. [11] It produced 55,900 vehicles in 2010, and in the same year the local market saw Mercedes-Benz sell 25,400 cars and 6,100 trucks. [7]
In 2022, Auto Trader began a partnership with the Office for National Statistics sharing its used car pricing data to power its official measures of inflation, including the Consumer Prices Index. [28] Also in 2022, Auto Trader acquired Autorama, owner of Vanarama, one of the UK’s largest transactional marketplaces for leasing new vehicles. [29]
This is a list of notable automobile manufacturers with articles on Wikipedia by country. It is a subset of the list of automobile manufacturers for manufacturers based in African countries. It includes companies that are in business as well as defunct manufacturers.
Today, the vehicle is in the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg. [6] The C-Class has been the focus of car production for a long time. [1] C-Class vehicles manufactured in South Africa have been and are also exported to Australia (since 1997), Japan (since 2000) and the United States (since 2007). In 2015, MBSA manufactured the one millionth ...
Amati Cars (1988–1992) Autozam (1989–1998) Colt (1974–1984) (cars produced and exported by Mitsubishi Motors and imported into the UK by the Colt Car Company and marketed under the Colt brand) Datsun (1931–1986) (2013–2022) ɛ̃fini (1991–1997) Eunos (1989–1996) Hino (1961–1967) Prince (1952–1966) Scion (2003–2016) Toyopet
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 .