Toyota Vitz Now South Africa's Cheapest Car, Gains Safety Kit And Longer Service Plan

The Toyota Vitz is a popular contender in South Africas budget hatch market and now the company is sweetening the deal further with a price reduction and additional safety features.

Toyota has quietly implemented these changes, as first reported by Cars.co.za , with the base model is now listed at R178,800, representing a reduction of R11,100 from its previous official retail price.

We say officially because technically, Toyota did offer a long-running promotion that saw it offered at R169,900 since August 2023, as IOL previously reported .

The more generously appointed Vitz 1.0 XR manual now retails for R209,900, which is R10,000 less than before, while the AMT version is yours for R224,900, which represents a saving of R15,000. The previous X-Cite variant, which featured in the middle of the price range, falls away with this latest upgrade.

The base-level Vitz 1.0 is officially South Africas cheapest new car, narrowly undercutting the Suzuki S-Presso 1.0 GL, which sells for R178,900, and interestingly the Vitz is also R10,100 less expensive than its virtually identical Suzuki Celerio twin.