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Wallyscar Iris is a Tunisian built ladder frame crossover
If the Willys Jeep - was a modern budget crossover, this is what it would look like...
The call for an African car remains strong, with the continent’s potential huge customer numbers and lack of public transport creating a vast market.
Establishing a new car company to challenge legacy brands, isn’t easy. But some African entrepreneurs and engineers aren’t afraid of the challenge. And two of them, are the Tunisian brothers, Zied and Omar Guiga, who run Wallyscar.
The name might sound like a misinterpretation of a children’s book, but it is a clever play on Jeep’s product heritage. Operations at Wallyscar started in 2006, and the company’s product offering is a Jeep inspired front-wheel-drive vehicle called the Iris.
Its styling is unapologetically relatable to that of Jeep’s round headlight crossovers, with the ‘Wally’ name being a play on Jeep’s legendary ‘Willys’ roots.
Powering the Iris is a Peugeot-Citroen sourced 1.2-litre three-cylinder engine, good for 61 kW. It drives the front wheels via a five-speed manual gearbox, and Wallyscar says the Iris will run a 0-100 kph benchmark sprint in 13.2 seconds and power to a top speed of 158 kph.
If the idea of a front-wheel-drive, steel frame crossover appeals to you, this African-Mediterranean product offering prices at R190 000.
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If the Willys Jeep - was a modern budget crossover, this is what it would look like...
The call for an African car remains strong, with the continent’s potential huge customer numbers and lack of public transport creating a vast market.
Establishing a new car company to challenge legacy brands, isn’t easy. But some African entrepreneurs and engineers aren’t afraid of the challenge. And two of them, are the Tunisian brothers, Zied and Omar Guiga, who run Wallyscar.
The name might sound like a misinterpretation of a children’s book, but it is a clever play on Jeep’s product heritage. Operations at Wallyscar started in 2006, and the company’s product offering is a Jeep inspired front-wheel-drive vehicle called the Iris.
Its styling is unapologetically relatable to that of Jeep’s round headlight crossovers, with the ‘Wally’ name being a play on Jeep’s legendary ‘Willys’ roots.
Powering the Iris is a Peugeot-Citroen sourced 1.2-litre three-cylinder engine, good for 61 kW. It drives the front wheels via a five-speed manual gearbox, and Wallyscar says the Iris will run a 0-100 kph benchmark sprint in 13.2 seconds and power to a top speed of 158 kph.
If the idea of a front-wheel-drive, steel frame crossover appeals to you, this African-Mediterranean product offering prices at R190 000.
Wallyscar Iris is a Tunisian built ladder frame crossover
If the Willys Jeep – was a modern budget crossover, this is what it would look like… The call for an African car remains strong, with the continent’s potential huge customer numbers and lack of public transport creating a vast market. Establishing a new car company to challenge legacy brands...
