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Speaker 1: Card Talk with Melinda Ferguson on Weekend Breakfast with Sarah

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Speaker 2: All right, the time is eight thirty eight. You're listening

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Speaker 2: to Weekend Breakfast with Me Sarah Jen mcquala King. Now

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Speaker 2: then we are with Melinda Ferguson this morning, who is

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Speaker 2: going to be reviewing for us the new golf GTI.

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Speaker 2: But before that, just to pick up on something that

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Speaker 2: mel was chatting last week about to Saskia that the

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Speaker 2: namsistats and noting that exports had dropped by twenty eight percent.

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Speaker 2: Weren't entirely sure why, but Mal's got an update for

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Speaker 2: us this morning.

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Speaker 1: Morning, Mal, good morning. We'll start with a bit of

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Speaker 1: negative news. Well, I was caught off guard and it

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Speaker 1: was the one thing I didn't research last week. So

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Speaker 1: when Saskia asked me, I just pretend like I didn't

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Speaker 1: pretend to know. I just said I don't know, and

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Speaker 1: I'll find out. So I'm very happy to pick up

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Speaker 1: with the little bit of the error I kind of

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Speaker 1: made by not doing my due diligence. While the South

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Speaker 1: African death domestic market, the car sales were really good

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Speaker 1: last month. We sold fifty three four hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: five units, the best month since February twenty thirteen. There

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Speaker 1: was this huge, like other stat that was very worrying,

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Speaker 1: which was this twenty eight percent drop in exports. So yes,

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Speaker 1: according to NAANSA, and the basically the reason why there

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Speaker 1: are about four reasons global protectionism is tightening the gate,

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Speaker 1: which means really that some major markets are putting up

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Speaker 1: trade barriers or tariffs and South Africa. South African built

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Speaker 1: cars are now more expensive and less competitive overseas as

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Speaker 1: a result, and this is a huge worry because of

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Speaker 1: these tariffs. So that's one reason. Then there are stricter

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Speaker 1: emission rules and all these EV guide rules being made

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Speaker 1: by international kind of lawmakers when it comes to murtoring,

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Speaker 1: and so we know that Europe and other markets have

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Speaker 1: or internal combustions, so diesel or petrol engines, and so

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Speaker 1: this regulatory shift makes it harder to sell our cars

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Speaker 1: because we haven't adapted to the EV demand. So that's

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Speaker 1: a that's a big one. These are very big kind

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Speaker 1: local manufacturers like VW Toyota, BMW, Mercedes are really worried.

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Speaker 1: And then of course we've got this war that's just

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Speaker 1: making everything go mental. Sure, and I think that instability

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Speaker 1: people order less. No one knows what's going on, petrols

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Speaker 1: unknown factors right now. We saw a twenty eight percent drop.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully next month we'll see some kind of climb back

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Speaker 1: I think that's the big thing. None of us know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, Well thanks for that update mel On

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Speaker 2: that I want us to zoom into the car that

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Speaker 2: you were reviewing this week because I'm super excited. It

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Speaker 2: is the facelifted, newest version of the Volkswagen Golf GTI.

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Speaker 1: I believe, yes, and we have been longing for it.

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Speaker 1: So THEW actually launched it in December. They didn't do

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Speaker 1: wasn't I invited? A few of us were invited to

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Speaker 1: drive around gorgeous, but incredibly hot. It was that thirty

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Speaker 1: it was very very hot. So like this is a

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Speaker 1: with fuel. Sure, I think we should do a whole

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Speaker 2: Now, I know this is going to be a little

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Speaker 2: First just because because I know how much it is,

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Speaker 2: because I've been I've been doing a lot of research

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Speaker 2: because we're edging close to a million rand, nine hundred

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Speaker 2: and I think it's it's important that we speak about

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Speaker 1: Nearly a million rand for a hot hatch now ah,

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Speaker 1: but it's compared to is the hundred type Are and

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Speaker 1: how much that that is. The hundred Civic Type ARE

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Speaker 1: But I think any Golf GTI fan is going to

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, okay, So let's talk about what's different. Let's

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Speaker 2: talk about the engine, the gearbox, because this is now

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Speaker 1: Can you feel that?

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Speaker 2: Can you can you feel the difference? Can you feel

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Speaker 1: To the pre Yeah. So one of the complaints, I

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Speaker 1: So you get one hundred and ninety five kilowatts from

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Speaker 1: You've got a really good car. And yeah it's nearly

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Speaker 1: a million, but you're gonna get a great car. That's

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Speaker 1: my thinking.

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Speaker 2: If you're just joining us this morning, Melinda Ferguson with

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Speaker 2: us reviewing on car Talk this morning.

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Speaker 1: The facelifted Golf GTI.

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Speaker 2: I know that we normally leave the kind of pricing

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Speaker 2: to or we're just we're doing it slightly differently this morning,

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Speaker 2: because this car is valued at nine hundred and eight

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Speaker 2: this is really a kind of aspirational the hot hats

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Speaker 2: as as you said, mel that you know, up there

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Speaker 2: with the with the Honda Civic type ah which comes

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Speaker 2: in it easily over a million. You mentioned that the

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Speaker 2: Mini which what is it?

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Speaker 1: Many? The Mini Cooper Cooper works.

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Speaker 2: But it's not really you know, it doesn't.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't hold that the same cred. No, sorry, Many great,

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Speaker 1: start whistling in that. And you still see like there

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Speaker 1: got these fabulous nineteen inch and they called Queenstown, not

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Speaker 1: we did some lovely roots leaving from Constantia, sort of

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Speaker 2: So they were interesting because Ernest Page, who I think

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So when you're looking at like a one

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Speaker 1: So, so I think that there is a clever there

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Speaker 2: In terms of I don't know, you've you've mentioned that

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, there's no manual which you'd like. I

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Speaker 1: it doesn't have that boy racer vibelet the Honda Type

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Speaker 1: I just think that that overall it really did feel

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Speaker 2: What are you giving you out of ten mil.

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Speaker 1: Nine and nine not.

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Speaker 2: Too shabby, not too shabby for the new Volksmagen.

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Speaker 1: Gt I.

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Speaker 2: Nine out of ten nine and a half nine, nine

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Speaker 2: hundred and eight thousand rand.

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Speaker 1: Well, this is sathing.

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Speaker 2: This isn't my segment. This isn't my segment. And yeah,

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Speaker 2: I can you know it's not. And yet I can appreciate,

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Speaker 2: robots mel Thanks very much. Indeed, we'll chat to you

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