Lallmatie.com Blog » daihatsu http://lallmatie.com/blog Not rants, these are things that must be told! Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:36:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= End of Second Hand Sales Division for Toyota Mauritius http://lallmatie.com/blog/2011/01/20/end-of-second-hand-sales-division-for-toyota-mauritius/ http://lallmatie.com/blog/2011/01/20/end-of-second-hand-sales-division-for-toyota-mauritius/#comments Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:45:09 +0000 bhoot http://lallmatie.com/blog/?p=321 While local competitors are increasing their second-hand vehicle sales, it’s not surprising that the local dealer of Toyota (ex Beechand) is closing its Toyota Sure, used car division. Why it’s  not surprising, it’s because of their bad service, excessive prices, and incorrect models sold…

The number of Toyota Vitz sold in Mauritius is a lot, you just have to check around. So is the latest Corolla NZE 140 aka Axio. A lot of taxi drivers have now gained the knowledge that Axio is the new Japanese Corolla. While the model sold by Toyota Mauritius is the Malaysian built Altis E150 – which only recently got 6-speed and a dual-vvti engine…

That said, it’s not Toyota that is at fault, it’s their Mauritian dealership. They do not sell appropriate models, are not customer-focused, and have bad marketing campaigns! If only, I could take the reins of that company… or open a competing Toyota dealership… I could bring Daihatsu to Mauritius (and I thought about Lexus years ago!)

I still remember asking a salesperson from there about the price for the E140 Axio and the answer was that they have the E120 Corolla (so old…)…

Read more about previous articles, where I mention Toyota models that would sell good in Mauritius

I would still recommend Toyota Corolla Axio, Vitz, Auris, Rush, Mark X and Daihatsu Move, Copen and Sirion (Passo) –  both new and second hand. People who can’t buy the new Prius 3 would buy second hand Prius 2.

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So I said, let me read about the company… and tada, it’s 58% owned by UMW Toyota and Daihatsu (which is a subsidiary of Toyota!). They even share the factory that buids the Toyota Avanza!

No wonder that Daihatsu models are the basis of Perodua cars:

Daihatsu Mira -> Perodua Viva

Daihatsu Sirion -> Toyota Passo/Duet -> Perodua Mivy

Daihatsu Trevis -> Perodua Kelisa

and some more like the Toyota Rush/Daihatsu Terios… Nek manque the Toyota Camry/Daihatsu Altis to come next :P

What about your views? How do you find Perodua vehicles?

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