Volkswagen South Africa’s best selling vehicle is the Polo Vivo with 20 866 units sold in 2022. That is followed up by the Polo which sold 15 697 units while Volkswagen’s third best-selling selling model was the T-Cross with 10 384 units sold.

This amounts to roughly 74% of Volkswagen vehicles sold in South Africa.
To put things into perspective, Volkswagen sold 63 601 (Volkswagen Passenger Cars: 58 447, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles: 5 154) vehicles in Mzansi, in 2022 alone.
Elsewhere, the Volkswagen Taigo recorded 1 885 sales in 2022. Mind you, it was only launched in June. The refreshed Volkswagen T-Roc sold 2 407 units last year, while the Volkswagen Tiguan range (including Tiguan Allspace and Tiguan R) sold 2 613 units during the same time.

Despite severe stock and parts shortages last year, the Volkswagen Golf range also improved sales by 109% in 2022 with 639 units sold.
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