2010 has hardly started, and Pakistan sees five different cars being launched!
First, there was the Suzuki Swift (covered on CarAdvice here and for Swift pictures, see here). Then there is Toyota coming out with four different cars, all belonging to the, ahem ill-defined ‘spacious’ variety:
- Toyota Prado (CarAdvice’s review of one cool feature in Prado can be found here)
- Toyota Avanza
- Toyota Fortuner (that I can’t help spell and call Fortrunner)
- Terios (by Dihatsu)
Toyota Avanza is priced at PKR 1,799,000 for the Standard version and PKR 1,999,000 for the ‘Up Spec’. And the difference of PKR 200,000 is because in the Up-Spec version, you have 4 speakers instead of 2, 15-inch alloys instead of 14-inch steel and ‘electronic’ rear view mirror control instead of ‘manual’.
The car is 1.5 liters which I feel will be underpowered if you stack the car up to full capacity and drive back home from a good lunch. Toyota is intelligent enough to introduce different cars into the market and play up to the wallet of all classes of our society. I keep hearing stupid remarks by people that ‘the cars are too expensive’ for Toyota to bring in. No man, the car is expensive for me to buy it! But there are definitely people out there who’d consider Toyota Avanza as a right fit for their combined family trip. Tthe reason Yamaha doesn’t bring in heavy bikes, or Suzuki doesn’t bring their highly successful GS series of motorbikes (from 150 CC to 750CC) to Pakistan is ‘officially’ quoted as ‘lack of a market’. Well, there will be no market unless some makes it, and Toyota makes it every time!
Toyota Avanza Pictures
This is what it is all about, check ‘em out.
You are right in a way when you say that it is silly declare a car as expensive just because one finds it out of one's purchasing power. Yes, there are people with deeper pocktes who can afford cars at all price levels.
But still there is some thing that we refer to as “value for money”. Camry was priced at 2.8m and was regarded rightly priced by the prospective buyers. But then its price doubled and then further shot up to its current level of over 6m while the car is just the same, no additional features or technological advancement has been added. The price hike is due to external factors like taxes and forex fluctuation. Now even if I can afford to spend 6m for this 2.4 liter car, I would find that the value that the car offers is too little for 6m while it was right for 2.8m.
The same has happened with other automobiles like Surf and Prado.
The article above is good information but seems to have been hurriedly written
There are little things which point to this, like:
1)”here” is not a clickable link yet in “for Swift pictures, see here)”
2) “Dihatsu” could have been Daihatsu.
3) The extra T in “Tthe reason “.
4) “unless some makes it” vs “unless someone makes it”
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