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New vehicle sales segmentation

Posted on 23 October, 2013
New vehicle sales segmentation

New vehicle sales of 10,071 last month continued the upward trend for 2013. Light commercials have performed better pro-rata than other sectors this year compared to 2012. Year to date, 19,969 units havebeen sold. This was up by 26.2 per cent on 15,827 sales by the end of last September. Heavy commercial sales have increased by 23.9 per cent from 2,129 units to 2,638. Next are SUVs with sales jumping from 19,426 to 22,663 – up by 16.7 per cent – while the passenger market has grown by 1.6 per cent from 37,155 to 37,716.