Cavernous Volvo XC90 leads suburban SUV pack - BDlive
The car sales statistics released monthly by the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of SA show that the usual frontrunners are various incarnations of the Volkswagen Polo and Polo Vivo. the Ford Ranger and the Toyota Hilux. But what’s odd is that, in and among the reasonable, the competent and the humdrum, are cars such as the BMW 3-Series and the Mercedes-Benz C-Class — many luxury cars. But that’s SA. People either drive a Toyota Etios or a BMW X5. Not too many of us buy a VW Jetta. For an example of a more normal market, in Britain the Ford Fiesta is the best-selling car this year to date. Ford UK has shifted 85,000 of them so far, but in SA we buy fewer than 1,000 a month. I do, it is true, hop the kerb outside schools from time to time (kerb-hopping is often derided as evidence of how SUVs are unnecessary, but really, some of those kerbs are pretty fierce). By this I mean driving somewhere that requires off-road abilities in a car, not messing around in a quarry in an old Landy, or tackling an off-road course for the fun of it. I’ve forded a swollen river in the Kruger Park in a Land Rover Discovery,... Source: www.bdlive.co.za
