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Hyundai's H-100 Bakkie — a popular product from its Benoni assembly plant
The assembly plant in Benoni on the East Rand where Hyundai Automotive South Africa produces light and medium commercial vehicles, is a proud business unit of the local importer and assembler of Korean cars and trucks.
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yundai’s assembly plant in the Apex
imported a Xcient unit, Hyundai’s heavy-duty
industrial area has a land area of
truck or cargo-hauler, for testing in South Africa.
32 000m2, with 19 000m2 under roof,
Hyundai’s commercial model offering will expand
and is manned to produce more than
in future as more right-hand-drive vehicles
200 units of the H-100 and EX8 trucks per month. Since September 2014, Hyundai Automotive
become available for our market. When a workhorse is needed for South Africa’s
SA’s Commercial Vehicle Division has been
tough working conditions, one does not need to
assembling trucks and the ever-popular H-100
look much further than Hyundai’s H100 Bakkie. It
Bakkie in Benoni. Initially the HD medium
has earned a reputation as a durable, reliable and
commercial trucks were built in Benoni, followed
rugged competitor in the market segment for light
by the HD’s successor, the EX8, in February 2018.
commercial vehicles.
“Our products are supported by Hyundai
The 1.3-ton H-100 Bakkie, which is the perfect
Automotive South Africa’s commercial network
choice for business operators in need of a
that consists of 40 sales dealers spread
versatile, reliable vehicle for their daily operations,
throughout the country, as well as Botswana,
has proven itself to be tough and versatile to meet
eSwatini, Namibia and Zimbabwe. This ensures
almost every challenge, no matter how big or
that our footprint covers all the major routes
small the enterprise is.
travelled by our customers,” says Wade Griffin,
convenient loading and unloading of cargo. Up
Automotive SA.
to 1.3 ton of cargo can be loaded – an exercise that can be made even easier by dropping one,
Mighty EX8 truck, which has gained traction in
two or all three of the flat cargo area’s latching
the medium commercial vehicle segment since
side panels.
its launch in 2018. “The industry-leading 4-year,
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The trunk of the H100 is only 745mm high for
commercial vehicles director at Hyundai One of the vehicles assembled at Benoni is the
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A tough steel ladder chassis with a double
unlimited kilometre warranty and very competitive
wishbone and torsion bar front suspension and
pricing of its parts basket are some of the
semi-elliptic laminated leaf springs and rigid axle
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reasons that attract customers to this truck with
at the rear, gives the H100 the ability to carry a full
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a gross vehicle mass of 7 800kg which gives it an
load with safety, confidence and ease.
impressive load-carrying ability,” says Griffin. The Commercial Vehicle Division has also
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