Grey import vehicles threaten the local economy and jobs in South Africa's vehicle manufacturing industry

bixt said:
"According to Thomson, most grey imports in South Africa come from first-world, right-hand-drive countries like Japan. Customers can be easily caught out if they are unaware of what grey vehicles are.
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He doesn't have a clue either. Japan drives on the left:

theculturetrip.com

The Unusual Reason Japan Drives On The Left Side Of The Road

Why do Japan's cars all travel on the left? Well it actually has a lot to do with samurais and trains.
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At this point, MyBB articles are just a source of hilarious jokes, for us to use as fodder where the real action happens, in the forums.

@Jan take notes
 
Dan C said:
"A right-hand drive vehicle has its steering wheel on the right side. It is designed to be driven in countries such as Britain, Japan, and Australia"
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Hilarious. This "news" report must be run by the morons in the ANCYL . Or is that too denigrating for the ANCYL?
 
“The importing of used vehicles into South Africa is prohibited under the International Trade and Administration Act,” he said.
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This is something that needs to change as it's the main reason we're being shafted. Foreign safety standards are often better than local ones. It's also easy to register a car as a buildup rather than a transfer but who still does a roadworthy?
 
Cosmik Debris said:
He doesn't have a clue either. Japan drives on the left:

theculturetrip.com

The Unusual Reason Japan Drives On The Left Side Of The Road

Why do Japan's cars all travel on the left? Well it actually has a lot to do with samurais and trains.
theculturetrip.com theculturetrip.com
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And given Kwazulu-Natal snow recently, their cars are probably more suited to our conditions as they get hot weather in summer and very cold winter weather. I suppose there may be these small boxy cars which are quite low off the ground and maybe those may have issues with poorly maintained SA roads. Otherwise this is FUD. But they protect the local car assembly industry in the same way that Temu is blocked from cheaper imports to protect our local Chinese product re-packaging industry. To be fair, at least we tend to assemble cars in SA.
 
what f-ing "local standards"?!?

the cars literally roll off the same assembly line, the only difference is they're not overpriced in order to fund a useless job creation program that should not exist: APDP

gfy ANC!
gfy DataDot!

if a car built by the same factory, to the same spec, can enter the country and cost LESS than the ones produced / imported by the "local motor vehicle manufacturing industry" then the "local motor vehicle manufacturing industry" can go and get fahked too
 
NarrowBandFtw said:
what f-ing "local standards"?!?

the cars literally roll off the same assembly line, the only difference is they're not overpriced in order to fund a useless job creation program that should not exist: APDP

gfy ANC!
gfy DataDot!

if a car built by the same factory, to the same spec, can enter the country and cost LESS than the ones produced / imported by the "local motor vehicle manufacturing industry" then the "local motor vehicle manufacturing industry" can go and get fahked too
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BUT BUT it's not locally certified!
 
Citroen is revamping its entire line-up in South Africa, moving away from the old vehicles imported from Europe to new ones sourced from India.

The result is that the old European C3 and C3 Aircross have been swapped out for Indian models that have the same names but very different specifications.

12 cars discontinued in South Africa in 2024

12 cars discontinued in South Africa in 2024 At least 12 different cars have been pulled from the shelves in South Africa so far this year.
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This is just trying to shift the focus from protectionism of the local vehicle manufacturing industry to an ‘enemy’.
Are second hand imports form Japan technically superior to most secondhand vehicles available in SA now? Yes of course. Are they also cheaper. Also yes.

Imagine they would legally allow the importing of secondhand Japanese cars for instance. Your 1994 golf 2 is now only worth R5k because for R50k you can pick up a 2015 model with ABS, traction control and airbags.

It would pretty much destroy the secondhand market as we know it today with all the panel beated crap.

We would however increase vehicle safety overnight and actually allow people to buy safer cars for much less money.

I would also argue that it would create jobs as there would be more cars that would need a service, repairs etc.
 
mypetcow said:
This is just trying to shift the focus from protectionism of the local vehicle manufacturing industry to an ‘enemy’.
Are second hand imports form Japan technically superior to most secondhand vehicles available in SA now? Yes of course. Are they also cheaper. Also yes.

Imagine they would legally allow the importing of secondhand Japanese cars for instance. Your 1994 golf 2 is now only worth R5k because for R50k you can pick up a 2015 model with ABS, traction control and airbags.

It would pretty much destroy the secondhand market as we know it today with all the panel beated crap.

We would however increase vehicle safety overnight and actually allow people to buy safer cars for much less money.

I would also argue that it would create jobs as there would be more cars that would need a service, repairs etc.
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I wonder which parliamentarian one can write to.
 
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