WeBuyCars on the road to expansion
- Industry News
- 20 November 2024
Dealer industry news from around Southern Africa
We have all heard the instruction to dealers to “go digital”, but that has become a catch-all phrase for everything, from using WhatsApp to prospect to completely digitising your dealership.
A lot has been said about the lockdown owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, the current economic contraction and reduced income for many people in South Africa, leaving the question whether all industries, and specifically the car industry, will be able to recover and if so, how quickly.
Mitsubishi Motors, part of the Nissan-Renault-Mitsubishi triumvirate, recently announced that it is freezing all new model introductions to Europe.
Mike Whitfield, second-generation chairman of Nissan South Africa, has just been elected president of the African Association of Automotive Manufacturers (AAAM) at the organisation’s recent annual AGM.