The National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa (NAAMSA) says improvements in light, medium and heavy commercial vehicle sales were recorded in March, compared to the same month last year.

The association says domestic sales of new light commercial vehicles, bakkies and minibuses during March, 2015 at 16 808 units reflected a gain of 875 units or an improvement of 5.5% compared to the 15 933 light commercial vehicles sold during the corresponding month last year.
Sales of vehicles in the investment-led medium and heavy truck segments of the Industry registered fairly substantial gains.

Medium commercial vehicle sales totalling 1 104 units and heavy commercial vehicle sales at 1 989 units, reflected an improvement of 89 units or 8.8%, in the case of medium commercials, and an improvement of 141 vehicles or a gain of 7.6% in the case of heavy trucks and buses – compared to the corresponding month last year.