Ford Ranger stretches double-cab sales lead in May 2025

The Ford Ranger stretched its year-to-date double-cab sales lead in South Africa in May 2025, while the Toyota Hilux dominated the extended- and single-cab charts. Here are the figures…

In May 2025, the Ford Ranger was again South Africa’s best-selling double-cab bakkie, stretching its lead in the year-to-date sales race in the process. At the same time, the Toyota Hilux – the local market’s most popular bakkie overall – topped the extended- and single-cab charts.

As a reminder, Naamsa’s monthly sales report unfortunately doesn’t include a breakdown of the 3 bakkie body styles available in Mzansi. However, the kind folks over at Lightstone Auto have again assisted us by providing these fascinating registration figures.

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For the record, the Toyota Hilux (13 491 units) is at the top of the overall bakkie sales table in South Africa, year to date at the end of May 2025. The Ford Ranger (10 080 units) and Isuzu D-Max (8 168 units) are in 2nd and 3rd, respectively.

South Africa’s best-selling double-cab bakkies

According to Lightstone Auto, the Ford Ranger continues to lead the double-cab bakkie sales race after the opening 5 months of 2025, with 8 378 units sold locally (1 778 of which were registered in May). By our maths, that translates to 83.1% of the Silverton-built contender’s overall tally.

May’s performance saw the Ranger stretch its year-to-date double-cab sales lead over the Toyota Hilux to 2 050 units, with the Prospecton-made model’s total sitting at 6 328 units (including 1 144 units sold last month). Interestingly, the double-cab body style thus accounts for 46.9% of the Hilux’s overall figure so far this year.

The Struandale-made Isuzu D-Max again takes the final double-cab bakkie podium position. With 597 sales in this segment in May 2025, the D-Max’s year-to-date double-cab tally sits at 3 277 units – or 40.1% of its total. Lightstone Auto’s figures further show all other 1-tonne double-cab bakkie derivatives have collectively managed 8 419 units, year to date.

Single- and extended-cab body style sales

Meanwhile, the Toyota Hilux continues to lead the pack in the single-cab segment, with 5 356 units (including 1 014 units in May) registered during the opening 5 months of 2025. Based on our calculations, this represents 39.7% of the Japanese stalwart’s overall figure, year to date.

The Isuzu D-Max sits in 2nd place on the single-cab rankings, with its year-to-date registration figure increasing 721 units in May 2025 to 4 159 units (or 50.9% of the nameplate’s total). The KwaZulu-Natal-assembled Mahindra Pik Up finds itself in 3rd on the single-cab table, with 3 484 units (or a heady 82.6% of its total) sold, including 651 units in May.

For the record, Ford has sold only 402 units (or just short of 4%) of the Ranger single cab over the first 5 months of 2025. Lightstone Auto’s figures further suggest all other 1-tonne single-cab bakkie derivatives (excluding Hilux, D-Max, Pik Up and Ranger, that is) collectively managed 4 471 units, year to date.

Finally, the Toyota Hilux remained in pole position in the extended-cab race, adding 389 registrations in May to push its year-to-date tally to 1 793 units (or 13.3% of its total). The Ford Ranger is in 2nd on 1 299 units (including 273 sales in May), with the Isuzu D-Max (732 units, including 155 last month) in 3rd. These are, of course, the only 3 bakkies offered locally in the “cab-and-a-half” body style.