Rascasse Audience Intelligence

Motor vehicle Audience in South Africa

A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about Motor vehicle in South Africa — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. Motor vehicle has an estimated audience of 2,720,406 people in South Africa.

#109among Topic in South Africa
#5in Cars & Mobility

Motor vehicle has an estimated audience of 2,720,406 people in South Africa. 40.6% are female, 59.4% are male, average age 37.3. Top brand affinities: Used car, Hatchback, City car, Audi, Porsche.

Top brand affinities include Used car, Hatchback, City car, with strongest over-indexing on Used car (1.62× the country average).

Demographically, the Motor vehicle audience skews more male with an average age of 37.3, and over-indexes on personality traits such as Luxury Orientation, Need for Security.

The typical Motor vehicle fan in South Africa is more male, around 37.3 years old, with strong Luxury Orientation tendencies and a notable affinity for Used car.

Category: Cars & Mobility · Type: Topic

The data on this page comes from the Rascasse audience panel and is refreshed monthly from search, social and browsing signals. As of 2026-08-18.

Section 01

At a glance

The key figures that characterise the Motor vehicle profile in South Africa.

Audience size
2.7M
in South Africa
Gender
40.6%
59.4% male
Age
37.3
average years
Country rank
#179
Topic in South Africa
Fig. 01

Search interest · 12-month trend

-20%
vs. last year
JanMarMayJulSepNov
Monthly searches · Source: Rascasse Audience Intelligence
Section 02

Demographics of Motor vehicle fans

40.6% are female, 59.4% are male, average age 37.3.

Fig. 02

Gender split

40.6%
Female
59.4%
Male
Demographic split for Motor vehicle audience in South Africa
MetricValue
Female40.6%
Male59.4%
Average age37.3
Estimated audience size2,720,406
Fig. 03

Age distribution

Ø 37.3
average years
Age distribution of the Motor vehicle audience in South Africa
Age bracketShare%
16-1922%
20-2925%
30-3920%
40-4913%
50+20%
Fig. 04

Worldwide distribution

0.9%

of the worldwide Motor vehicle audience comes from South Africa.

Worldwide audience distribution share by country for Motor vehicle
CountryShare
United States21.0%
Italy5.0%
Germany4.8%
Section 04
Brands and entities this audience over-indexes on, vs. the country average.

Audience interests & affinities

The strongest cross-interests of the Motor vehicle audience — brands, topics and people combined.

Fig. 07

Top cross-interests, ranked by affinity

Top brand affinities (over-index vs. country average) for Motor vehicle audience
#·InterestCategoryAffinity×
01Manual transmissionCars & Mobility1.83×
02Automatic transmissionCars & Mobility1.83×
03CarcareCars & Mobility1.83×
04City carCars & Mobility1.79×
05HondaCars & Mobility1.69×
06Aston MartinCars & Mobility1.69×
07FerrariCars & Mobility1.68×
08Volkswagen TiguanCars & Mobility1.68×
09Range RoverCars & Mobility1.65×
10PorscheCars & Mobility1.63×
11Used carCars & Mobility1.62×
12LamborghiniCars & Mobility1.62×
13Toyota HiluxCars & Mobility1.61×
14LexusCars & Mobility1.58×
15SuzukiCars & Mobility1.56×
16AudiCars & Mobility1.55×
17Toyota Land CruiserCars & Mobility1.55×
18Toyota CorollaCars & Mobility1.54×
19HatchbackCars & Mobility1.52×
20Max VerstappenSports1.52×
Section 05
Top six personality traits over-indexed by this audience (1.0 = country average).

Personality of the Motor vehicle audience

Values above 1.00× are above the country average, values below 1.00× below it.

Fig. 08

Deviation from the national baseline

What stands out
The strongest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by Motor vehicle audience · What stands out
TraitClusterDeviationScore
Luxury OrientationPREMIUM1.23×
Need for SecurityCONSERVATISM1.16×
Quality AwarenessPREMIUM1.14×
1.00× baseline
Rather not
The weakest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by Motor vehicle audience · Rather not
TraitClusterDeviationScore
Family OrientationCONSERVATISM0.75×
Social Media UsageJOY0.77×
CreativityOPEN0.80×
1.00× baseline
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How to read this data

Audience size is the estimated number of people in South Africa who actively search for Motor vehicle. Affinity is an over-index ratio: 2.0× means the audience is twice as likely to engage with that brand or trait as the country average. Reach is the estimated number of audience members in a region. Regional and brand-affinity tables are sorted from strongest signal to weakest.

About this audience profile

This audience profile is generated by Rascasse from anonymized search-behavior signals across South Africa. For methodology see methodology. Affinity values are over-index ratios vs. the country average (1.0 = baseline). Audience sizes are estimated, not measured.

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