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So I don't know if it's a Cape Town only thing but riddle me this.

You all recommend me Honda & Toyota cars. You all basically are saying buy Japanese but stay away from Nissan and Mazda.

So I took a drive around today and I saw that more than 75% of cars were German.

I drove around for only about 20 minutes and I saw the following.

The majority consisted of Opels. Old Opel Astra, Kadett, Corsa Lite, Cub from 1990-2001 year model. I was surprised by this. Secondly I saw mostly VW, Jetta's and Golfs and some Polo's. Then I saw a bunch of BMW and Mercedes cars and then Fords. I don't know if Ford is German but I saw a lot of them. After that I saw some Mazda 323. Some Tazz's, Corolla's.

Anyways fact is that most of my time I saw German, I swear aside from the odd Atos and Tata Indica everything was German.

Why the fascination with German cars in Cape Town? Surely they must be cheaper than the so well renowned Toyota and Honda you all rave about? At least in Cape Town with so many German Cars supplies must be a very simple thing to come by.

Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe 90% of Cape Town is wrong. Are Japanese cars so ugly that people would rather drive old VW's?
 
what is GP? Gauteng?

The nicest car I ever seen here is a porche, cause a dealer opened here about 4 years ago.
 
Cause these:

"The majority consisted of Opels. Old Opel Astra, Kadett, Corsa Lite, Cub from 1990-2001 year model"

don't hold any resale value and can be picked up for next to nothing whereas Japanese cars tend to keep their value quite well
 
what said:
what is GP? Gauteng?

The nicest car I ever seen here is a porche, cause a dealer opened here about 4 years ago.
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Bentley, Ferrari, Porsche, Lamborghini and Aston Martins.....that's Sandton and the Northern Areas done.

And then there is everything else everywhere else. That said, JHB is a bit bigger than that place down there with the overrated mountain.
 
Same with GP, 75%+ are German cars, but its decreasing.
German cars are better, especially with cars above the R300k mark.
My opinion obviously.
 
OP, clearly you're in the wrong part of Cape Town then. I see a few Porsches and Maseratis every day, Aston once in a while too (had someone in a Rapide take my favourite parking bay!!!). Heck, I've had McLaren MP4-12Cs drive past my flat a few times. As for the ratios, VWs are very common indeed, but they're newer ones and way out of the R 40k price range you mentioned.
 
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Bentley, Ferrari, Porsche, Lamborghini and Aston Martins.....that's Sandton and the Northern Areas done.

And then there is everything else everywhere else. That said, JHB is a bit bigger than that place down there with the overrated mountain.
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And the underrated service delivery and lack of e-tolls! :D
 
Everyone that says buy japanese has usually tried all the other makes before.my dad has had anything from a volvo,ford,citroen,vw,opel,etc.you name it.says the 98 corolla that he has at the moment is the best car hes ever had.it just doesnt break.

my opinion though is that some jap cars are becomming way to expensive.honda jazz for R180-200k?wtf? alot of people cant affor that.hence they go for a vw polo etc.
 
what said:
The majority consisted of Opels. Old Opel Astra, Kadett, Corsa Lite, Cub from 1990-2001 year model. I was surprised by this. Secondly I saw mostly VW, Jetta's and Golfs and some Polo's. Then I saw a bunch of BMW and Mercedes cars and then Fords. I don't know if Ford is German but I saw a lot of them. After that I saw some Mazda 323. Some Tazz's, Corolla's.
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Do we still consider Opel to be German? I mean they were bought by GM back in the 1920's.
 
Opel is very much German - the light switch is a give away. Chev in SA is mostly Korean with a hint of Oz. The Ford cars we get here are also German based, their European headquarters are in Cologne, Germany.

South Africa follows European trends when it comes to cars, smaller engines and mostly manual transmission. That is why they are so fond of German cars. But as some people have stated, the Koreans have proved themselves and it won't belong before the Chinese will past the test of time.

Edit : My bike is actually America designed, with the frame made in China, components from Japan, assembled in Taiwan ;)
 
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Is the Tata Indica Chinese, Japanese or Korean?

So what are you guys saying? Buy German or don't buy German?
 
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