{"id":8768,"date":"2013-08-08T07:44:59","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T07:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8768"},"modified":"2013-08-08T07:45:33","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T07:45:33","slug":"sas-best-selling-bakkies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8768","title":{"rendered":"SA&#8217;s best selling bakkies"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8769\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8769\" style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/hilux.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8769\" alt=\"Toyota Hilux\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/hilux.jpg\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8769\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toyota Hilux<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yes, we know you love your bakkies, South Africa. So we&#8217;ve decided to publish a list of best-selling pick-ups every month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the Department of Trade and Industry releases the figures for new vehicle sales each month, we&#8217;ll slap together a list of the top ten best-selling bakkies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In July, the Toyota Hilux easily holds onto its top position \u2014 as expected \u2014 while the Ford Ranger flies up to second, leap-frogging two popular sub-one-tonners. Yes, that means the Nissan NP200 drops to third and the Chevrolet Utility to fourth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite increased sales, the best the Isuzu KB and Nissan NP300 can do is hold on to their respective fifth and sixth positions. The Volkswagen Amarok is stuck in seven, while the Mazda BT-50 moves up a spot to eighth. The Nissan Navara also climbs one spot to ninth, relegating the Toyota Landcruiser PU to the tenth and final place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bakkies for July 2013 (see June&#8217;s figures here):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">1. Toyota Hilux &#8211; 3159 (up from 3070)<br \/>\n2. Ford Ranger &#8211; 1876 (up from 1627)<br \/>\n3. Nissan NP200 &#8211; 1663 (down from 1682)<br \/>\n4. Chevrolet Utility &#8211; 1587 (down from 1672)<br \/>\n5. Isuzu KB &#8211; 1379 (up from 1012)<br \/>\n6. Nissan NP300 &#8211; 916 (up from 600)<br \/>\n7. Volkswagen Amarok &#8211; 412 (down from 430)<br \/>\n8. Mazda BT-50 &#8211; 183 (up from 173)<br \/>\n9. Nissan Navara &#8211; 176 (up from 166)<br \/>\n10. Toyota Landcruiser PU &#8211; 154 (down from 191)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">iafrica.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, we know you love your bakkies, South Africa. So we&#8217;ve decided to publish a list of best-selling pick-ups every month. After the Department of Trade and Industry releases the figures for new vehicle sales each month, we&#8217;ll slap together a list of the top ten best-selling bakkies. In July, the Toyota Hilux easily holds &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8768\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SA&#8217;s best selling bakkies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3,4],"tags":[4901,4902,12250],"class_list":["post-8768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-and-finance","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-bakkies","tag-best-selling-pick-ups","tag-south-africa"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/hilux.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8772,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8768\/revisions\/8772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}