A cursory, and sometimes scary (given the price of new cars), glance across automotive segments provides a revelatory snapshot of buying trends in the South African passenger vehicle market.
The key take-outs are that nearly twothirds of new vehicle sales now originate from compact and medium-sized SUVs, within which manual transmission equipped models are continually losing their appeal, making petrol automatics almost the default choice.
And what of diesels? There are a handful of options