Where are your new-vehicle profits hiding?
- Dealer News
- 26 November 2024
Months of waiting and millions in added costs have made selling an OEM armoured vehicle almost impossible, but local firm SVI says it has the solution.
Welcome Mzimkhulu does not just park cars at the Aksons Wheels dealership in Pietermaritzburg.
“I believe in retailing the dealership into a profit, and over the past, very challenging year, I believe we are on the right track to achieve our goals,” Jaco van den Berg, Dealer Principal at Motus Renault Northcliff, told Dealerfloor recently.
Motus Toyota CapeGate was chosen for the final servicing destination of a very special Hilux-bakkie that had just completed 48 018 kilometres of non-stop driving.
Business in Potchefstroom has slowed down under current COVID-19 restrictions in 2020, with the impact of COVID-19 rippling from the town’s university to smaller businesses across town.
It took almost seven months, but Chris Raman, business development executive at Key Pietermaritzburg is finally ready to deliver the last of four fire trucks to respond to emergencies on the N3.
Since their launch in 2017, rent-to-own company Planet42 (which started out as CarGet), has quietly grown into one of the single biggest clients for used car dealers in South Africa, having bought well over 2,000 cars from over 300 dealers.
Maemo Motors in Rustenburg is now a fully fledged four-brand dealership with Mercedes-Benz, Jeep, Mitsubishi and the recently acquired Kia, all under one roof.
“You can describe me as a no-cost-to-company salesman,” Alec Harris told Dealerfloor.
Selling new cars in the heart of Namaqualand means hard work, but for Kobus Spangenberg and the team at Springbok Nissan it is part of the appeal of life in this arid border town.
Notwithstanding the severe drought in large parts of the Northern Cape, business is better than expected. So says Hannes Joubert, Dealer Principal at Motus Isuzu & Honda in Kimberley, capital city of the Northern Cape province.
Suhail Suder at Key Pietermaritzburg has taken on a big challenge, but one he feels he was raised to succeed in. The 26-year-old salesman sells Citroën, Peugeot and Opel at what many locals in the Midlands still consider to be an Isuzu dealership.
Jacques Cloete, Sales Manager at Oranje Toyota’s Automark and Autoteam franchises and his team celebrated 100 used vehicle sales in a month a mere two months after opening their newest franchise.
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