{"id":195744,"date":"2025-10-07T19:48:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T19:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/195744\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T19:48:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T19:48:13","slug":"rob-davies-bemoans-flood-of-imported-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/195744\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Davies bemoans flood of imported cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>             Former trade &amp; industry minister says dominance of imports is astounding                <\/p>\n<p>02 October 2025 &#8211; 05:00 <\/p>\n<p> by       David Furlonger<\/p>\n<p>Former trade &amp; industry minister Rob Davies said  on Wednesday he was shocked by the degree to which imports had come to dominate the SA new-vehicle market.<\/p>\n<p>It was revealed recently that imports, primarily from India and China, account for 64% of all new cars and bakkies sold here&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former trade &amp; industry minister says dominance of imports is astounding 02 October 2025 &#8211; 05:00 by David&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":["post-195744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}