Chinese cars at R70000 for SA market

Same here.

They might not be the best quality and i am thinking they will be small at best...but car prices here are ridiculous!
 
By introducing cheap quality cars at "afordable" prices, it gives the mainstream manufacturers little incentive to reduce their prices, in a way sort of justifying that their prices are ok. No way am I going to drive one of those things, I'll rather stick to my 98 polo 2.0i until I can afford something with a decent build quality and safety features.
 
I'd need to see the car and get an idea of the specs before i slate it for being overpriced...
 
Ya car prices are truly ridiculous in this country. Even the 2nd hand car market is insane. A sport Jeep Cherokee 2001 model can be bought for around $10 000-11 000 (http://www.internetautoguide.com/usedcars/11-int/jeep/cherokee/index.html) that equates to: R61 000 - R67100 (at R6.1 to $)

Now look at the local market for the same. Just use McCarthy call a car or another local dealer (http://www.callacar.co.za/asp/searchResult.asp?iPageNum=1&OrderBy=YearASC&MaxRows=30). The range is R144 900 to R175 000 (and this is not even the sports model).

That's a difference of R83 000 for the cheapest one. You can buy 2 jeep cherokees for the price of one here in South Africa.

They are ripping us off royally in South Africa. Just another story of piggies at the feeding trough in SA.

P.S. The McCarthy link is not working (probably due to session variables or cookies), so you'll have to manually do the search for 2nd hand Jeep Cherokees.
 
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As with every other industry in SA, we are expected to follow the 4-step program.
1 - Drop trousers
2 - Bend over
3 - Rub some lube (Optional depending on sympathy of industry)
4 - Wait for them to satisfy themselves
 
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Isn't that the same price as a Corsa and similar cars?
I will rather take the corsa
 
Highflyer_GP said:
As with every other industry in SA, we are expected to follow the 4-step program.
1 - Drop trousers
2 - Bend over
3 - Rub some lube
4 - Wait for them to satisfy themselves
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Point 3 is an optional extra - and usually only applies after much pleading....
 
Anyway, I've been trying to figure out which car they're intending to bring in, and it appears to be this one: http://paultan.org/archives/2006/03/30/geely-ck1-freedom-cruiser/

The Geely CK1 Freedom Cruiser. Those front lights look like Merc C class clones from that angle. Anyway, this car apparently has a licensed-from-Daewoo platform.

They will be priced at USD5000-6000 for export
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At current exchange rate: R32500 - R38400 + Import Duties. So retail here would be roughly double what these same cars are to be sold for in the US. Go figure.. Another South African company poised to rape the South African consumer. TJM Holdings: you should get your own YAAFM episode.
 
Especially considering the average income in USA is way higher than the average income in SA, we should be cheaper!!

Had a lecturer in university who said that it if a car is manufactured in SA, exported to Australia, then shipped off to the UK, they would still pay less for the car in the UK than the price they sell it to us locally (where it's manufactured)!
 
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Highflyer_GP said:
As with every other industry in SA, we are expected to follow the 4-step program.
1 - Drop trousers
2 - Bend over
3 - Rub some lube
4 - Wait for them to satisfy themselves
Click to expand...

Step 3 is missed most times as they are too eager to get to step 4.


/edit :\ king beat me to it
 
Whilst we are getting ripped off, your argument makes no sense. The major reason it costs more here is that the consumer market is tiny compared to the states. That and the importers rip us off :-)

Nice to see that they still use that story in Uni. A bit of an eye opener
 
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JStrike for something that's manufactured here, it should at the very least be the same price as markets being exported to (taking into account the small market). The average SA income is far below the average income in the export markets. There's no shipping costs involved locally, only transport costs from the plant to the dealership. There's no shortage of spares either.

This was a systems management course offered as part of an engineering degree. I highly doubt that it was just a story ;) The market size makes no difference, the plant has a specific input (demand) and a specific output (supply). As long as the supply matches the demand, there are no other external factors influencing cost.
 
Highflyer_GP : Sorry, was not disputing the cost of cars produced here. Was talking about the cost of imported cars, such as this one

And I dont doubt the story is true. I heard it back in the day at University as well
 
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