The go to car for wealthy politicians and businessmen were the boxy Japanese SUVs from Mitsubishi and Isuzu.
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Some are still on the road.
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Today Toyota Land Cruiser is the King
Kuna ka Isuzu trooper 1986 model year…
I am tempted kufanyia ukarabati banae… However its very slow
Just mount a Toyota D4D engine and gearbox uone vile itakuwa sawa
Mutafari, hapo utamwaga mbesha tu nunua gari msuri unless wewe ni mechanic otherwise itakusotesha
I am tempted to sell my Corolla jalopy and go for a 90s Mitsubishi Pajero. The one with a tire at the back
Kitu kama hii
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Ziko sawa but ukishika second hand si utaimba
Yeah that’s what the mechanic was suggesting…
Hawa wazungu mwitu wenyeji wa Kenya hupenda hizi jalopies sana…
They swear by their reliability… Ubaya ziko slow sana.
Vile wanaendanga excursions weekend means that lazima uamke mapema sana
Na spares zinapatikana ama unaenda kariobangi kusaka gari Mzee
Late 90s the go to car for the wealthy was this Musso
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Manze hii ndio mnyama
Industrial area ziko…Alafu they are not mechanically complicated. Hata mechanic wa nduthi anaiunda sawa sawa bila stress
Why?
Shida za gari Mzee, kushinda garage
Initially I will look for like 300k and fix the main parts. Unless shida ingine itokee baadaye
But ni gari ya kudumu
The roads were horrible under Nyayo hence such cars.
Same in South America. Akina Pablo Escober loved those cars when driving into the jungle hideouts. Ingine ni Hilux.
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My father did that with a Hilux surf ya 1990… instead of buying a new car.
He spent almost 250k sprucing it up, buying new parts, and doing an engine overhaul…
That beast has served him kutoka 2011 mpaka Leo bila stress… All he does is the usual service intervals.
Hawezi uuza hio gari hata umpatie nini. Hio gari haijawahi has never left him stranded on the road nor kubebwa na breakdown ama flatbed.
@Yuletapeli @Teddy_time that’s the advantage with body on frame chassis 4x4s… sana sana those of the 1980 and 1990s.
Those are blank canvasses. So long as the body panels na chassis ziko intact.
You just bolt on new engines and gear boxes na maisha inaendelea bila stress.
All the while akina @hakimoto wanasumbuka na their ecoshitty boxes and tududus kama ma driver wa Uber badala ya kununua masheen kaa hizi.
Musso had Mercedes Benz engine. Was too computerized for third world countries.
Those pre 1990s SUV are durable workhorses because they are purely analog. Hakuna comps mingi Za EFi etc, ni manual injector pumps.
Gari kama Rivian ama Tesla ni Shida tupu Kenya, it is just a computer on wheels.