Within the current worldwide business environment, several manufacturing firms have been spotted within a significant competition for survival; this has led firms to continuously longing to enhance the quality of their goods and cut the cost down. Most of these firms are seeking to address radical amendments in accordance with the demands in the market with the aim of being ahead of their contenders, however there is an unceasing necessity regarding maintenance and continual enhancement concerning quality management practices. Despite quality management is gaining significant attention and cognizance in the American, Western, and Asian countries, however in South Africa, mots of manufacturing companies lack effective quality systems established. Hence, several critics suggested that the awareness to the significance to implement efficient quality practices that can give the local manufacturing firms more advantage within the global market by means of high quality yardstick has not been outstanding. Thus, this paper aims at assessing the importance of quality management practices on performance of the South African automobile manufacturing companies.