Which double-cab bakkie was South Africa’s best seller in 2024? Well, we have the dual-cab sales figures as well as those for single- and extended-cab 1-tonne bakkies…
You’ve likely already seen our list of South Africa’s best-selling bakkies overall for 2024. But what happens when we break down the figures by body style? Well, that’s exactly what we’re going to do here, allowing us to crown Mzansi’s most popular double-cab bakkie for 2024.
Let’s dive right into the sales statistics. According to figures kindly supplied by Lightstone Auto, the Ford Ranger retained the title of SA’s best-selling double-cab bakkie last year, with 20 078 units sold. By our maths, that represents 78.6% of the nameplate’s overall total for 2024 (and, according to the Blue Oval brand, a 33.4% share of the dual-cab segment).
Fascinatingly, Ford says that double-cab figure includes a considerable 1 930 units of the Raptor (which is imported from Thailand rather than built alongside the other Ranger derivatives at the local Silverton plant), meaning this 292 kW performance bakkie outsold Ford’s entire single-cab portfolio.
The Toyota Hilux – which will later in 2025 be offered in widebody Legend 55 guise – thus had to settle for 2nd place in South Africa’s double-cab rankings, with 15 322 units registered last year. Based on our calculations, dual-cab sales comprised 46.9% of the Prospecton-built bakkie’s overall tally for 2024.
As expected, the Isuzu D-Max – which looks set to benefit from a facelift (and perhaps even a new engine option) this year – completed the double-cab top-3 last year, with the Struandale-made bakkie ending on 7 965 units. That works out to 42.0% of the D-Max’s overall figure for 2024.
Lightstone Auto’s figures furthermore showed that all other 1-tonne double-cab bakkie derivatives – excluding the Ranger, Hilux and D-Max, that is – collectively managed 16 681 units in 2024.
SA’s top-selling single- and extended-cabs in 2024
What happened in the single-cab space? Well, the Toyota Hilux was again South Africa’s best-selling 1-tonne single cab last year, with 12 161 units registered. The Isuzu D-Max single cab snatched 2nd place with 9 037 units, while the 2-door version of the KwaZulu-Natal-assembled Mahindra Pik Up completed the single-cab top 3, with 6 610 units sold. The Ranger single cab, meanwhile, finished the year on just 1 702 units.
The Toyota Hilux reigned supreme in the extended-cab segment in 2024, too, finishing the year on 5 161 units. Next came the Ford Ranger (3 772 units), followed by the Isuzu D-Max (1 971). For the record, these are the only 3 bakkies offered locally in this so-called “cab-and-a-half” body style.
As a reminder, the Hilux remained SA’s best-selling bakkie overall (so, all 3 body styles combined) last year, despite sales falling 12.6% year to year to 32 656 units. The Ranger took 2nd place, improving 3.8% year on year to 25 553 units. That meant the D-Max again completed the podium, with its registrations growing 0.1% to 18 973 units.
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