Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Spotted in Malawi Hammer H3


This suv was spotted in December, it was for sale at one of the car dealers, the price was 25 million Kwacha (USD170, 000)! Thats awfully alot considering the same car is 7.4 million kwacha in South Africa. anyway it was the first time i saw this car here and may be that explains the price. Then just a few weeks ago, another one was spotted. This really shows that Malawians are not far behind in the luxury SUV class. I have see a number of BMW X5s lately, Land Cruiser and few Rangerover Sport.

The drawback with these big SUVs in Malawi is the size of our roads, parking and fuel prices. Some would argue that it would be more expensive to run an SUV in UK than here due to the polution levy imposed on most polluting vehicles. As I see it there is really no good future for these big SUV in developed countries and my prediction is that these vehicles will be cheaper in countries where there are no restrictions. So lets just cross our fingers may be soon we will buy this car at half the price.

2 comments:

Kevin Anchi said...

This is the mail problem of huge and tough and yet luxurious SUV's, they consume hell lot of fuel, wonder when the auto industry will build the hybrid version of it......

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