Volkswagen Polo Vivo sales hit 104 since launch of Kenya assembly plant

Volkswagen Polo Vivo — the first passenger car to be assembled in Kenya in recent times — recorded sales of 104 units nearly a year after it was launched in December 2016.

Data from the Kenya Motor Industry Association (KMI) shows that DT Dobie had sold 51 units of the Trendline and 53 units of the Maxx models as of last November.

Orders for the car give it a market share of 1.8 per cent of all new saloon and station wagon sales in the country, according to the KMI data.

DT Dobie priced the Polo Vivo at Sh1.65 million as part of its strategy to attract price-sensitive middle class households who have preferred to buy used cars.

The motor dealer also added a warranty of three years or 120,000 kilometres but the sales performance shows the market is yet to warm to the car on a significant scale.

DT Dobie will be looking at the government to boost sales of the Polo Vivo, with bureaucrats having announced that the State had committed to buy 300 of the hatchbacks each year to promote its local assembly.

More dealers including Urysia (the Peugeot dealer) have started assembling their cars locally to benefit from exemption from a 25 per cent import duty levied on fully built imports.

Volkswagen Polo Vivo sales hit 104 since launch of Kenya

I was trying to figure out how much units are made per day I nearly had brain damage hahaha ni magari 0.2 ndio huunganishwa hapo kiwandani hata garage ya uchochoroni inawapiga gap?

Is that car plant for teaching purposes only or are they doing anything related to business?

The Government's move is good through committing to procure 300 hundred cars annually will in turn popularise the car to other consumers therefore job creation as the demand increases.

REDEEMER. said:

I was trying to figure out how much units are made per day I nearly had brain damage hahaha ni magari 0.2 ndio huunganishwa hapo kiwandani hata garage ya uchochoroni inawapiga gap?

Is that car plant for teaching purposes only or are they doing anything related to business?

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Stick to your tractors za kulima huko ujamaa villages, hapa kwetu middle-class ni wengi na pia Serikali ina uwezo wa kifedha(Middle-income) kununua magari 300 kwa mwaka. Nyinyi hata mnatengeza gari ngapi hapo LDC? Dar haina traffic Jam ya Magari instead ni msongamano wa Watu kwenye hizo vijibarabara vyenu. Stick to your LDC lanes.

mwaswast said:

Stick to your tractors za kulima huko ujamaa villages, hapa kwetu middle-class ni wengi na pia Serikali ina uwezo wa kifedha(Middle-income) kununua magari 300 kwa mwaka. Nyinyi hata Dar haina traffic Jam ya Magari instead ni msongamano wa Watu kwenye hizo vijibarabara vyenu. Stick to your LDC lanes.

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Hahaha I want to know what the problem you are assembling 0.2 cars per day, how the company managing only to pay refreshments fees?? I don't want to ask about other costs

REDEEMER. said:

I was trying to figure out how much units are made per day I nearly had brain damage hahaha ni magari 0.2 ndio huunganishwa hapo kiwandani hata garage ya uchochoroni inawapiga gap?

Is that car plant for teaching purposes only or are they doing anything related to business?

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Kwenu kwa jinsi mlivyo maskini na wabahili hawange timiza gari kumi, VW wameingia kwenye ushindani hapa na taratibu watakua sawa, sikutegemea wataweza kufikisha hapo, na pia serikali inakusudia kuwapa 300

REDEEMER. said:

Hahaha I want to know what the problem you are assembling 0.2 cars per day, how the company managing only to pay refreshments fees?? I don't want to ask about other costs

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Tanzania gears up for push into car assembly industry
The government hopes to catch up with Kenya by slashing corporate tax for car assembly operations in a new bid to woo more investors
TANZANIA, which is playing second fiddle to Kenya in car assembly operations, now plans to play catch-up with its northern neighbour by cutting taxes to attract more foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows into the industry.
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According to the Finance Bill of 2017 tabled in parliament last week for approval, the tax cuts are aimed at giving a kick-start to a nascent local automotive industry.
"A corporation with a newly-established plant for assembling motor vehicles, tractors, fishing boats or out-boat engines, and having a performance agreement with the government ... shall be taxed at a reduced corporate tax rate of 10 per cent for five consecutive years from the year of commencement of production," says part of the bill.
The corporate tax rate in Tanzania currently stands at 30 per cent for both resident and non-resident companies.
The government says it wants brand-new motor vehicles to be produced within the country and sold both locally and across the East African region as a strategy to boost job creation, tax collection and wider economic growth.
The Finance Bill 2017, which was seen by The Guardian, also offers tax exemptions for imports of capital goods such as machinery for the manufacture of vegetable oil, textile, pharmaceutical products, hides and skins to attract investments in line with the government's industrialisation drive.
The proposed legislation further stipulates that a newly-listed company on the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange (DSE), with at least 35 per cent of its stake floated on the local bourse, will be given a reduced corporate tax rate of 25 per cent for three consecutive years from the listing date.
At least one foreign company, Poland-based agricultural machinery manufacturers Ursus SA, is known to be investing in an assembly plant for tractors along with farming machinery in Kibaha district, Coast region.
But all in all, Tanzania has been lagging behind in attracting car assembly plants despite a rapid economic growth rate and large population of over 50 million people.
In the meantime, neighbouring Kenya is already hosting some of the world's biggest car manufacturers. German automaker Volkswagen (VW) resumed a production line there this year as it looks to sell more vehicles across the East African region.
VW, which assembled cars in Kenya in the 1960s and 1970s, has joined other major brands already being put together in the neighbouring country, including Isuzu, Toyota, Nissan and Mitsubishi.
France's PSA Group, the maker of Peugeot and Citroen cars, signed a deal with the Kenyan government earlier this year to open a vehicle assembly plant in Kenya, while Volvo Trucks plans to put up an assembly plant in the neighbouring country next year.
Kenya mostly assembles trucks, pick-ups and buses from kits supplied by foreign manufacturers, although data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics showed that the number of vehicles assembled between January and April this year was down 31 per cent year-on-year to 2,258 vehicles.
The Kenya Vehicle Manufacturers Association (KVMA) attributed the slowdown to tough economic conditions for buyers, including high interest rates and cuts in government spending, while VW said it still sees opportunity in the market.
South Africa exported 173,000 vehicles to Europe in 2016, up from 116,000 in the previous year, and the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa forecasts that production will rise by 48 per cent to 900,000 units a year by 2020.
Morocco has followed a similar pattern to South Africa, offering incentives for foreign companies and developing the port of Tanger-Med as an export hub for the sector. As a result, output increased from 100,000 vehicles in 2012 to 348,000 in 2016.

REDEEMER. said:

I was trying to figure out how much units are made per day I nearly had brain damage hahaha ni magari 0.2 ndio huunganishwa hapo kiwandani hata garage ya uchochoroni inawapiga gap?

Is that car plant for teaching purposes only or are they doing anything related to business?

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Acha upuuzi wako . You are definitely my fellow Tanzanian but for this you have written insane foolishness ! . I want to congratulate Kenyans for this, this is the kind of development we need even in to our poor country unfortunately we haven't been able to achieve it due to poor investment policies that we have in our country. We haven't been able even to manufacture our own toothpicks .I pity this Nation full of poverty mentality from Top to bottom in its hierarchy.This makes me sick ,I'm sick and tired of this shit .

It pains to see even Rwanda a small country with limited resources emerging from miserable destructive genocide wars in 1993 -1994 yet again still managing incredibly to step ahead of us in terms of economic development .Even Volkswagen have the plan to establish a car assembly plant over there . Yet they have motorcycle assembly plants / factories within their own borders RMC (Rwandan Motorcycle Company ) .


https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...FjAKegQICBAB&usg=AOvVaw0-Q80BQHr8zLgY20Hxv6WN

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...FjAWegQIBhAB&usg=AOvVaw16BlnLERkzr-20hWA2Ni1f

Prince Dos Santos said:

Acha upuuzi wako . You are definitely my fellow Tanzanian but for this you have written insane foolishness ! . I want to congratulate Kenyans for this, this is the kind of development we need even in to our poor country unfortunately we haven't been able to achieve it due to poor investment policies that we have in our country. We haven't been able even to manufacture our own toothpicks .I pity this Nation full of poverty mentality from Top to bottom in its hierarchy.This makes me sick ,I'm sick and tired of this shit .

It pains to see even Rwanda a small country with limited resources emerging from miserable destructive genocide wars in 1993 -1994 yet again still managing incredibly to step ahead of us in terms of economic development .Even Volkswagen have the plan to establish a car assembly plant over there . Yet they have motorcycle assembly plants / factories within their own borders RMC (Rwandan Motorcycle Company ) .


https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...FjAKegQICBAB&usg=AOvVaw0-Q80BQHr8zLgY20Hxv6WN

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...FjAWegQIBhAB&usg=AOvVaw16BlnLERkzr-20hWA2Ni1f

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Hahaha so Rwanda stepped ahead over us when?

mwaswast said:

http://www.ippmedia.com/en/news/tanzania-gears-push-car-assembly-industry

Tanzania gears up for push into car assembly industry
The government hopes to catch up with Kenya by slashing corporate tax for car assembly operations in a new bid to woo more investors
TANZANIA, which is playing second fiddle to Kenya in car assembly operations, now plans to play catch-up with its northern neighbour by cutting taxes to attract more foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows into the industry.
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According to the Finance Bill of 2017 tabled in parliament last week for approval, the tax cuts are aimed at giving a kick-start to a nascent local automotive industry.
"A corporation with a newly-established plant for assembling motor vehicles, tractors, fishing boats or out-boat engines, and having a performance agreement with the government ... shall be taxed at a reduced corporate tax rate of 10 per cent for five consecutive years from the year of commencement of production," says part of the bill.
The corporate tax rate in Tanzania currently stands at 30 per cent for both resident and non-resident companies.
The government says it wants brand-new motor vehicles to be produced within the country and sold both locally and across the East African region as a strategy to boost job creation, tax collection and wider economic growth.
The Finance Bill 2017, which was seen by The Guardian, also offers tax exemptions for imports of capital goods such as machinery for the manufacture of vegetable oil, textile, pharmaceutical products, hides and skins to attract investments in line with the government's industrialisation drive.
The proposed legislation further stipulates that a newly-listed company on the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange (DSE), with at least 35 per cent of its stake floated on the local bourse, will be given a reduced corporate tax rate of 25 per cent for three consecutive years from the listing date.
At least one foreign company, Poland-based agricultural machinery manufacturers Ursus SA, is known to be investing in an assembly plant for tractors along with farming machinery in Kibaha district, Coast region.
But all in all, Tanzania has been lagging behind in attracting car assembly plants despite a rapid economic growth rate and large population of over 50 million people.
In the meantime, neighbouring Kenya is already hosting some of the world's biggest car manufacturers. German automaker Volkswagen (VW) resumed a production line there this year as it looks to sell more vehicles across the East African region.
VW, which assembled cars in Kenya in the 1960s and 1970s, has joined other major brands already being put together in the neighbouring country, including Isuzu, Toyota, Nissan and Mitsubishi.
France's PSA Group, the maker of Peugeot and Citroen cars, signed a deal with the Kenyan government earlier this year to open a vehicle assembly plant in Kenya, while Volvo Trucks plans to put up an assembly plant in the neighbouring country next year.
Kenya mostly assembles trucks, pick-ups and buses from kits supplied by foreign manufacturers, although data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics showed that the number of vehicles assembled between January and April this year was down 31 per cent year-on-year to 2,258 vehicles.
The Kenya Vehicle Manufacturers Association (KVMA) attributed the slowdown to tough economic conditions for buyers, including high interest rates and cuts in government spending, while VW said it still sees opportunity in the market.
South Africa exported 173,000 vehicles to Europe in 2016, up from 116,000 in the previous year, and the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa forecasts that production will rise by 48 per cent to 900,000 units a year by 2020.
Morocco has followed a similar pattern to South Africa, offering incentives for foreign companies and developing the port of Tanger-Med as an export hub for the sector. As a result, output increased from 100,000 vehicles in 2012 to 348,000 in 2016.

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This is not the question I have asked you from the first place just steak to the primary question toto, how in the world 0.2 units per day? Is that an industry or a garage? Approximately you take a week to assemble a single car worst thing is a baby walker not even SUV duh

MK254 said:

Kwenu kwa jinsi mlivyo maskini na wabahili hawange timiza gari kumi, VW wameingia kwenye ushindani hapa na taratibu watakua sawa, sikutegemea wataweza kufikisha hapo, na pia serikali inakusudia kuwapa 300

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Hukutegemea kama watatengeneza gari moja kwa week, ulitegemea gari moja kwa mwezi?

REDEEMER. said:

This is not the question I have asked you from the first place just steak to the primary question toto, how in the world 0.2 units per day? Is that an industry or a garage? Approximately you take a week to assemble a single car worst thing is a baby walker not even SUV duh

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I can only argue with you about it if you have any working assembly plant in your LDC.

mwaswast said:

I can only argue with you about it if you have any working assembly plant in your LDC.

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Really?? Am shocked, you mean there is not even one assembly down there.

mwaswast said:

Stick to your tractors za kulima huko ujamaa villages, hapa kwetu middle-class ni wengi na pia Serikali ina uwezo wa kifedha(Middle-income) kununua magari 300 kwa mwaka. Nyinyi hata mnatengeza gari ngapi hapo LDC? Dar haina traffic Jam ya Magari instead ni msongamano wa Watu kwenye hizo vijibarabara vyenu. Stick to your LDC lanes.

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Hahaha umempa za usoni mdanganyika!
Vyuma vimekaza wameanza kuuza pumbunyo zao huko

MK254 said:

Really?? Am shocked, you mean there is not even one assembly down there.

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Never heard of one except for vijiweni rumours assembly.

mwaswast said:

I can only argue with you about it if you have any working assembly plant in your LDC.

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MK254 said:

Really?? Am shocked, you mean there is not even one assembly down there.

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1academ said:

Hahaha umempa za usoni mdanganyika!
Vyuma vimekaza wameanza kuuza pumbunyo zao huko
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We are making safari trucks which we sell to you and other African and European countries.

The same company makes even higher quality and modern garbage trucks but not 0.2 daily

Tanzania: Locally Made Garbage Trucks Given TBS Nod

few years ahead i think the sales will be high maybe 500 car for a year

mwaswast said:

Never heard of one except for vijiweni rumours assembly.

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Hehehe!! So shocking and to think of them drooling all over Kenya yet they lag far behind.

mwaswast said:

Stick to your tractors za kulima huko ujamaa villages, hapa kwetu middle-class ni wengi na pia Serikali ina uwezo wa kifedha(Middle-income) kununua magari 300 kwa mwaka. Nyinyi hata mnatengeza gari ngapi hapo LDC? Dar haina traffic Jam ya Magari instead ni msongamano wa Watu kwenye hizo vijibarabara vyenu. Stick to your LDC lanes.

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Kwahiyo mmetengeza 104 units the whole year, kenya mna import 110,000 car units per year. Kama sio drop in the ocean sijuwi ni nini.