Importing a used car into South Africa only allowed under exceptional circumstances

The safety aspect is nonsense. If the Japanese cars are good enough for the UK that has much stricter regulations in all aspects than SA, then this is just an excuse and essentially only protectionism of a few thousand of jobs at the cost of an inflated secondhand car market with ancient cars from the 80s and 90s without any modern safety features (e.g. ABS, ESP). Which is why we always have such terrible Easter and Christmas road accienct statistics..

 
What a load of BS, everyone will be crying it's unfair like they do with Temu & Shein. SA don't like competition they are greedy and they are cnts that why we can't have nice things. I yes we also have a dumb crap ANC government to back these A-Holes that accept back hands and rely on Taxes to screw over its citizens.
 
Conflicting information here.

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SAT Japan Introduces Affordable Used Cars for Sale in South Africa

SAT Japan now provides the best solutions for used cars for sale in South Africa, which can be as convenient and reliable as any other solution to all your car needs.
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Now you say we cant import these vehicles.

Which one is correct?
 
mypetcow said:
The safety aspect is nonsense. If the Japanese cars are good enough for the UK that has much stricter regulations in all aspects than SA, then this is just an excuse and essentially only protectionism of a few thousand of jobs at the cost of an inflated secondhand car market with ancient cars from the 80s and 90s without any modern safety features (e.g. ABS, ESP). Which is why we always have such terrible Easter and Christmas road accienct statistics..

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Exactly. Not to mention that, regardless of where the car is purchased, they all have to go through the same roadworthy tests. Is the government saying the roadworthy tests are not sufficient to detect whether or not a vehicle is safe? If so we should be dealing with that instead of banning imported vehicles.
 
mypetcow said:
The safety aspect is nonsense. If the Japanese cars are good enough for the UK that has much stricter regulations in all aspects than SA, then this is just an excuse and essentially only protectionism of a few thousand of jobs at the cost of an inflated secondhand car market with ancient cars from the 80s and 90s without any modern safety features (e.g. ABS, ESP). Which is why we always have such terrible Easter and Christmas road accienct statistics..

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Yeah, these cars look new still underneath.
 
maybe the website just takes your money - then it can say whatever it likes in terms of rules...

Sounds like a test case needs to be done to see what happens to your money ;)
 
Quicks said:
What a load of BS, everyone will be crying it's unfair like they do with Temu & Shein. SA don't like competition they are greedy and they are cnts that why we can't have nice things. I yes we also have a dumb crap ANC government to back these A-Holes that accept back hands and rely on Taxes to screw over its citizens.
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Not ANC government. GNU government.
 
Yeah it was never about road safety but to protect SAs domestic vehicle production. Not a bad idea considering that it is an important industry in the country. Its not like "cheap cars" are rare here anyway.
 
Groggyme said:
Yeah it was never about road safety but to protect SAs domestic vehicle production. Not a bad idea considering that it is an important industry in the country. Its not like "cheap cars" are rare here anyway.
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Nah. Nothing local competes with these cheap imports. Vehicle prices in this country are out of control, even by direct currency conversion.

Cheaper vehicles will do wonders for the SA economy. No excuse to throttle the rest of the economy for the sake of a few folks absolutely coining it with overpriced vehicles.
 
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