How many cars were sold in South Africa in 2021 vs 19 other countries

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How many cars were sold in South Africa in 2021 vs 19 other countries

South Africa has one of the smaller new-car markets out there.

 

[Leo_]

Country	New cars sold in 2021	Population	% of Population
United States	14 900 000​	331 500 000​	4,49%​
Canada	1 640 000​	38 000 000​	4,32%​
Australia	1 049 831​	25 700 000​	4,08%​
Japan	4 448 340​	125 800 000​	3,54%​
Switzerland	272 067​	8 600 000​	3,16%​
Germany	2 620 000​	83 100 000​	3,15%​
Sweden	301 008​	10 400 000​	2,89%​
England	1 400 000​	55 900 000​	2,50%​
Scotland	137 120​	5 500 000​	2,49%​
Italy	1 460 000​	59 600 000​	2,45%​
UAE	216 535​	9 900 000​	2,19%​
Ireland	104 932​	4 900 000​	2,14%​
Thailand	759 119​	69 800 000​	1,09%​
Russia	1 570 000​	147 500 000​	1,06%​
Brazil	2 075 223​	212 600 000​	0,98%​
Argentina	394 576​	45 400 000​	0,87%​
South Africa	464 122​	59 300 000​	0,78%​
Egypt	290 000​	102 300 000​	0,28%​
China	26 280 000​	140 000 000 000​	0,02%​
India	3 082 000​	138 000 000 000​	0,00%​

 

[PhireSide]

I wonder how many of those Canada cars were bought by US folks, thanks to the massively stupid 'market adjustment' that US dealers are putting on their new stock?

EDIT: The table above is wrong @Leo_ , Canada needs another zero which brings their figures more in line

 

[TEXTILE GUY]

Shoooooo interesting looking at another way - sheer volume of cars sold

India and China, 278,000,000,000 cars.
JZ would have a field day spitting that number out.

 

[TEXTILE GUY]

I wonder how many of those Canada cars were bought by US folks, thanks to the massively stupid 'market adjustment' that US dealers are putting on their new stock?

Last year, Ford I think it was in the US ran this bogo "special" - Buy a car and get one free. The freebie was pre-owned POS, but the dealerships had to move that stock. I think it was Hyundai or Chev, cant remember - but they had this deal, $1 down, and you dont pay for 6 months or something silly.

Of course, the auto dealers in the US are making that up somewhere.

 

[PhireSide]

Last year, Ford I think it was in the US ran this bogo "special" - Buy a car and get one free. The freebie was pre-owned POS, but the dealerships had to move that stock. I think it was Hyundai or Chev, cant remember - but they had this deal, $1 down, and you dont pay for 6 months or something silly.

Of course, the auto dealers in the US are making that up somewhere.

And there was also that big push in 2009, I think, where you could trade in any sh!tbox and get a new econobox. I think this was at the time where they were pushing small econobox cars under the Obama Administration.

The US has nice things like a miniscule interest rate which makes buying new cars a lot more attractive than the 9 or 10% that the finance houses here will give you.

I see it often on Reddit as well - person goes out to buy a car, and they end up buying two instead! Imagine having the funds that you can, on a whim, decide to buy not one, but two cars. This is factoring out the BOGO offer, I'm talking just a normal straight-up purchase.

It boggles the mind probably just as much as our market boggles theirs.

 

[TEXTILE GUY]

It boggles the mind probably just as much as our market boggles theirs.

Absolutely

 

[Leo_]

EDIT: The table above is wrong @Leo_ , Canada needs another zero which brings their figures more in line

Thanks for spotting. I've edited it.

 

[Crayons]

Country	New cars sold in 2021	Population	% of Population
United States	14 900 000​	331 500 000​	4,49%​
Canada	1 640 000​	38 000 000​	4,32%​
Australia	1 049 831​	25 700 000​	4,08%​
Japan	4 448 340​	125 800 000​	3,54%​
Switzerland	272 067​	8 600 000​	3,16%​
Germany	2 620 000​	83 100 000​	3,15%​
Sweden	301 008​	10 400 000​	2,89%​
England	1 400 000​	55 900 000​	2,50%​
Scotland	137 120​	5 500 000​	2,49%​
Italy	1 460 000​	59 600 000​	2,45%​
UAE	216 535​	9 900 000​	2,19%​
Ireland	104 932​	4 900 000​	2,14%​
Thailand	759 119​	69 800 000​	1,09%​
Russia	1 570 000​	147 500 000​	1,06%​
Brazil	2 075 223​	212 600 000​	0,98%​
Argentina	394 576​	45 400 000​	0,87%​
South Africa	464 122​	59 300 000​	0,78%​
Egypt	290 000​	102 300 000​	0,28%​
China	26 280 000​	140 000 000 000​	0,02%​
India	3 082 000​	138 000 000 000​	0,00%​

Either your India and China populations are wrong or they squirted out shxtloads of people in minutes.

 

[ronz91]

And there was also that big push in 2009, I think, where you could trade in any sh!tbox and get a new econobox. I think this was at the time where they were pushing small econobox cars under the Obama Administration.

The US has nice things like a miniscule interest rate which makes buying new cars a lot more attractive than the 9 or 10% that the finance houses here will give you.

I see it often on Reddit as well - person goes out to buy a car, and they end up buying two instead! Imagine having the funds that you can, on a whim, decide to buy not one, but two cars. This is factoring out the BOGO offer, I'm talking just a normal straight-up purchase.

It boggles the mind probably just as much as our market boggles theirs.

ah to be wealthy in the 1st world