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Cheaper to buy isn’t cheaper to own

Comparing the Kia Sonet (R314 995) and Nissan Magnite (R370 900) – see how price, engine, warranty and safety stack up below.

The instalment, the fuel bill and the five-year figure — worked out on your deposit, your rate and your driving. Every specification below comes from a verified record.

The five-year figure is finance instalments and fuel only — it does not include servicing, insurance, tyres or depreciation. It is a cost-to-buy-and-run comparison, not a full cost of ownership.

Fuel costs aren't shown — we don't yet have a verified consumption figure for the Kia Sonet or the Nissan Magnite, and a partial comparison would favour it unfairly.
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Lowest instalment
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Kia

Sonet

1.5 CVT LS
R314 995
Price as at 6 Aug 2026
Total per month
R5 506/month excl. fuel
6/23 verified
Full specifications
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Nissan

Magnite

1.0T Acenta Plus CVT
R370 900
Price as at 6 Aug 2026
Total per month
R6 483/month excl. fuel
10/23 verified
Full specifications
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Cost to own
Purchase price
R314 995
R370 900+R55 905
Monthly instalment
R5 506
R6 483+R977
Still owing after five years
R62 048
R73 060+R11 012
Fuel cost and total cost-to-own are not shown for this comparison — see note above.
Engine and drivetrain
Engine
1.5 L
1.0 L
Power
Not published
74 kW
Transmission
CVT
CVT
Drivetrain
Not published
FWD
Space and practicality
Seats
5
5
Doors
5
5
Boot (all seats up)
Not published
336 L
Boot (behind 2nd row)
Not published
336 L
Most manufacturers don’t state which measurement standard they use, so boot figures are approximate for comparison.
Ownership and cover
Warranty
5 yr / Unlimited
6 yr / 150 000 km
Spare wheel
Full-size · unverified
Full-size
Service network
~76 authorised service points, as at 18 August 2026 In all 9 provinces. Service-leads flag present on all 76 SA entries in Kia's own locator.
~95 authorised service points, as at 18 August 2026 In all 9 provinces. Service Centre flag present on 95 of 96 SA entries in Nissan's own locator.
Safety and off-road
Airbags
6
6

What we haven’t verified yet

Blank cells are figures the manufacturer doesn’t publish for South Africa, or that we haven’t confirmed against an official source. We leave them empty rather than estimating them. A third kind of blank is different again: some fields don’t apply to a vehicle at all — an electric car has no fuel tank — and those are named separately below and left out of that vehicle’s verified count, which is why the counts on the cards above can be out of different totals.

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Cost-to-own figures are illustrative only: a standard reducing-balance loan calculation using the deposit, trade-in, balloon, interest rate, term and driving assumptions above, plus fuel at the price you set. They exclude insurance, licensing and servicing, and are not a loan quote — get a real quote from our Finance Calculator. Specifications shown are the fields we’ve verified against official South African sources for each vehicle; anything not shown is marked “Not published” rather than estimated.

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