Mercedes-Benz has kicked off 2023 on a excessive after taking the title of high exporter over the month of December, convincingly beating each Ford and Volkswagen. Right here is who else contributed to native exports.
The brand new Mercedes-Benz AMG C63 S E Efficiency has precipitated a stir within the motoring world for taking out the commemorated, handbuilt AMG V8 and changing it with a four-cylinder boasting spectacular hybrid help. Regardless of this, the mannequin was sampled on the Mercedes-Benz South Africa facility in East London and quickly silenced motoring journalists with its most mixed outputs of 500 kW and 1020 N.m.
Mercedes-Benz South Africa started producing the C-Class in 1994, shortly after the worldwide introduction of the primary mannequin (the W202, which was the successor to the compact 190 collection). Since then, the German automaker has continued to supply the following three iterations of the C-Class sedan (W203, W204 and W205).
Whereas the high-performance C63 with its spectacular statistics stays as a potent and usually, unusual mannequin to sport the three-pointed star, the C-Class on which it’s based mostly serves because the solitary Mercedes-Benz South Africa mannequin produced within the East London mega manufacturing unit. Over the month of December, the German model exported a grand complete of 9 405 items, convincingly giving them the title of the highest automotive exporter.
“Continued excessive international demand for the W206 C-Class – proudly constructed proper right here in South Africa – noticed us put up a implausible export end in December 2022. The C-Class continues to impress each the media and patrons with its high quality, consolation and forward-thinking tech, and it’s due to this fact no shock that customers are flocking to sellers to purchase the C-Class, in South Africa and overseas.” states a Mercedes-Benz Vehicles South Africa consultant.
The info, provided by naamsa states that the brand new automobile market’s efficiency in 2022 remained resilient regardless of the a number of nationwide and worldwide headwinds which bode nicely for the huge South African trade in 2023.
The highest eight automobile exporters for December 2022
- Mercedes-Benz SA – 9 405
- Ford Motor Firm – 5 553
- Volkswagen Group SA – 5 447
- Toyota – 3 259
- BMW Group – 1 748
- Nissan – 422
- Isuzu Motors South Africa – 191
- Haval Motors SA – 65
