Dealer industry news from around Southern Africa
The annual Simola Hillclimb, which celebrated its 15th running in 2025, has grown into South Africa’s premier motorsport event.
The 15th edition of the Simola Hillclimb was characterised by difficult emotions mixed with brave competition at the highest level during the King of the Hill challenge.
In bygone days, they used to come and go, but the latest generation of Chinese bakkies is here to stay. The dubious first generation bakkies from China did not draw a lot of attention from the South African car-buying consumer, either as a leisure or commercial alternative.
Mitsubishi Motors South Africa was presented with the Top Performer award in the After-sales – Customer Experience category at the brand’s recent annual global after-sales business excellence awards ceremony in Thailand.
The South African new-vehicle market showed its resilience yet again during April this year with an 11.9% increase compared to the same month last year. This is notwithstanding the number of public holidays that manifested in long weekends with school holidays in between.
Well-known South African racing driver and competitor at the annual Simola Hillclimb, Pieter Joubert, died this weekend when his Lotus left the road, and he crashed.
Chinese bakkies are making their mark in the highly contested bakkie space, not only internationally but also locally in South Africa, which is described as a bakkie-mad country.
Chery’s latest international brand, LEPAS, has reached a major milestone as its first model – the L8 – officially rolls off the production line.
A busy year awaits OMODA & JAECOO, with the all-new JAECOO J7 SHS and the OMODA C7 PHEV just two of the new, electrified models due to reach South African shores later this year.
Chery is taking the car-buying experience into the future by blending technology with a human touch.
DTSA has noticed the recent media reports regarding the potential merger between Daimler Truck and Toyota and would like to emphasise that some information presented needs to be clarified.
The National Treasury’s announcement on the scrapping of the proposed increase in Value-Added Tax (VAT) has been widely welcomed.
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