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Volkswagen South Africa to use Thika KVM facility
chemirocha
#21 Posted : Friday, September 09, 2016 12:24:44 PM
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chiaroscuro wrote:
chemirocha wrote:
chiaroscuro wrote:
streetwise wrote:
Time Wazuans stopped importing second hand cars, these VW will be as cheap and once you pay you drive off on the super highway


Locally assembled cars have NEVER been cheap.

Zina wenyewe.... govt departments....no wonder VW bosses went to Statehouse to announce this....

BTW: GMEA assembles 70,000 units per year... 20 every day.


You do remember Marshalls assembled Peugeot locally for many years?


There was a ban on full-built imports those days. It protected the 3 assemblers - GMEA, KVM [then known as LEYLAND] & AVA in mombasa.

When the market was opened, only GMEA is making money, thanks to their focus on commercial vehicles.


Wrong! The ban was explicitly on mitumba imports.
chiaroscuro
#22 Posted : Friday, September 09, 2016 3:27:39 PM
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chemirocha wrote:
chiaroscuro wrote:
chemirocha wrote:
chiaroscuro wrote:
streetwise wrote:
Time Wazuans stopped importing second hand cars, these VW will be as cheap and once you pay you drive off on the super highway


Locally assembled cars have NEVER been cheap.

Zina wenyewe.... govt departments....no wonder VW bosses went to Statehouse to announce this....

BTW: GMEA assembles 70,000 units per year... 20 every day.


You do remember Marshalls assembled Peugeot locally for many years?


There was a ban on full-built imports those days. It protected the 3 assemblers - GMEA, KVM [then known as LEYLAND] & AVA in mombasa.

When the market was opened, only GMEA is making money, thanks to their focus on commercial vehicles.


Wrong! The ban was explicitly on mitumba imports.


TRUE: there was a ban on fully-built cars as there was another one on clothes and shoes! This was long before mitumba was ever discovered. When forex was being assigned like prescription medicine - when you could not change more than Sh5k-worth without approval of CBK governor!
Magnate
#23 Posted : Friday, September 09, 2016 5:45:39 PM
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I would be more proud as a kenyan when accompanying accesories are sourced locally,merali is closing shop so tires are out of the box.
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muandiwambeu
#24 Posted : Sunday, September 11, 2016 10:51:29 AM
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streetwise wrote:
Time Wazuans stopped importing second hand cars, these VW will be as cheap and once you pay you drive off on the super highway

even order a brand new model, @mua and drive proudly out of the industry yard with a swagger. made in kenya . power is expensive because of idle capacity. kplc and kengen needs heavy users. kengen as well could import cheap power from grandreinsaince dam in Ethiopia and minimise the appetite for debt. reduce pressure on hydro resources as it saves on capex financing cost for pursuit of more efficient and greener geothermal power.
let the good times roll.
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sparkly
#25 Posted : Sunday, September 11, 2016 4:13:45 PM
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Magnate wrote:
I would be more proud as a kenyan when accompanying accesories are sourced locally,merali is closing shop so tires are out of the box.


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#26 Posted : Sunday, September 11, 2016 4:33:25 PM
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chiaroscuro wrote:
chemirocha wrote:
chiaroscuro wrote:
chemirocha wrote:
chiaroscuro wrote:
streetwise wrote:
Time Wazuans stopped importing second hand cars, these VW will be as cheap and once you pay you drive off on the super highway


Locally assembled cars have NEVER been cheap.

Zina wenyewe.... govt departments....no wonder VW bosses went to Statehouse to announce this....

BTW: GMEA assembles 70,000 units per year... 20 every day.


You do remember Marshalls assembled Peugeot locally for many years?


There was a ban on full-built imports those days. It protected the 3 assemblers - GMEA, KVM [then known as LEYLAND] & AVA in mombasa.

When the market was opened, only GMEA is making money, thanks to their focus on commercial vehicles.


Wrong! The ban was explicitly on mitumba imports.


TRUE: there was a ban on fully-built cars as there was another one on clothes and shoes! This was long before mitumba was ever discovered. When forex was being assigned like prescription medicine - when you could not change more than Sh5k-worth without approval of CBK governor!


just how old are you people?
Obi 1 Kanobi
#27 Posted : Tuesday, September 13, 2016 11:23:42 AM
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Joined: 7/23/2008
Posts: 3,017
chiaroscuro wrote:
streetwise wrote:
Time Wazuans stopped importing second hand cars, these VW will be as cheap and once you pay you drive off on the super highway


Locally assembled cars have NEVER been cheap.

Zina wenyewe.... govt departments....no wonder VW bosses went to Statehouse to announce this....

BTW: GMEA assembles 70,000 units per year... 20 every day.


Never understood why people quote numbers without thinking through.

New car sales in Kenya never go beyond 10,000 units, so where does GMEA take the 70,000 units?

If they were to assemble and sell all the units @ say minimum Sh 3M, it would make their annual turnover approx.Sh 210B, does that plant on Mombasa road look to you like a Sh 210B operation?

Finally 20 cars per day translates to 7,300 cars a year assuming operations for 365 days a year.
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