Kenya Sets Tempo As East Africa Vehicle Market Grows
- Kenya Sets Tempo As East Africa Vehicle Market Grows
- Local Startup Mobius Among Fresh Players
A government official expects another record year for new-vehicle registrations as a result of sturdy construction, energy-sector development and growth in tourism despite Kenya’s engagement in a counterterrorism war in neighboring Somalia.
Locally built Mobius II engineered for rough Kenyan roads.
NAIROBI – Rising request for commercial vehicles and luxury cars shoved fresh and used motor-vehicle registrations in Kenya to almost 100,000 units last year, according to the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics.
Reporting in the agency’s two thousand fifteen economic survey, director general Zachary Mwangi notes the 102,606 freshly registered motor vehicles in the country in two thousand fourteen was up about 9.0% from 94,017 units in 2013. Both totals include trailers.
“Specifically, the number of commercial panel vans and pickups enlargened by 28%, from 9,819 units in two thousand thirteen to 12,568 units in 2014,” Mwangi says.
Sales of fresh strong trucks rose 11.6%, from 9,570 units in two thousand thirteen to Ten,681 in 2014.
Mwangi tells WardsAuto he expects new-vehicle registrations to set another record this year as a result of sturdy construction, energy-sector development and continued growth in tourism, despite Kenya’s engagement in a counterterrorism war in neighboring Somalia.
“Improved governance and a sustained strong internal request for services are likely to favor request for not just commercial vehicles but also cars,” Mwangi says.
The Kenya Motor Industry Assn. also indicates more fresh vehicles likely will be sold in the country this year, albeit they accounted for fewer than one in six registrations last year.
New-vehicle dealers sold a record 17,499 units in 2014, a figure that has enlargened despite the government’s removal of limitations on imports of used cars in the early 1990s.
Many of those fresh vehicles were sold by Toyota Kenya, Cooper Motor, Simba Colt and DT Dobie, which are the leading dealerships in East Africa.
The dealers today face fierce competition from Kenyan assemblers of pickups and heavy-commercial vehicles, including General Motors East Africa Ltd, Kenya Vehicle Manufacturer (which makes Nissan , Mazda , Land Rover, Mercedes, Iveco and various buses under license) and the Association of Vehicle Assemblers, which builds Nissan Urvans and Land Rover one hundred ten models, in addition to bus figures, custom-design trailers, fire trucks and ambulances.
General Motors has an assembly plant in Nairobi that assembles heavy-commercial vehicles for sale within Kenya as well as for export to Burundi, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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Kenya Sets Rhythm As East Africa Vehicle Market Grows
- Kenya Sets Tempo As East Africa Vehicle Market Grows
- Local Startup Mobius Among Fresh Players
A government official expects another record year for new-vehicle registrations as a result of sturdy construction, energy-sector development and growth in tourism despite Kenya’s engagement in a counterterrorism war in neighboring Somalia.
Locally built Mobius II engineered for rough Kenyan roads.
NAIROBI – Rising request for commercial vehicles and luxury cars shoved fresh and used motor-vehicle registrations in Kenya to almost 100,000 units last year, according to the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics.
Reporting in the agency’s two thousand fifteen economic survey, director general Zachary Mwangi notes the 102,606 freshly registered motor vehicles in the country in two thousand fourteen was up about 9.0% from 94,017 units in 2013. Both totals include trailers.
“Specifically, the number of commercial panel vans and pickups enhanced by 28%, from 9,819 units in two thousand thirteen to 12,568 units in 2014,” Mwangi says.
Sales of fresh mighty trucks rose 11.6%, from 9,570 units in two thousand thirteen to Ten,681 in 2014.
Mwangi tells WardsAuto he expects new-vehicle registrations to set another record this year as a result of sturdy construction, energy-sector development and continued growth in tourism, despite Kenya’s engagement in a counterterrorism war in neighboring Somalia.
“Improved governance and a sustained strong internal request for services are likely to favor request for not just commercial vehicles but also cars,” Mwangi says.
The Kenya Motor Industry Assn. also indicates more fresh vehicles likely will be sold in the country this year, albeit they accounted for fewer than one in six registrations last year.
New-vehicle dealers sold a record 17,499 units in 2014, a figure that has enhanced despite the government’s removal of confinements on imports of used cars in the early 1990s.
Many of those fresh vehicles were sold by Toyota Kenya, Cooper Motor, Simba Colt and DT Dobie, which are the leading dealerships in East Africa.
The dealers today face fierce competition from Kenyan assemblers of pickups and heavy-commercial vehicles, including General Motors East Africa Ltd, Kenya Vehicle Manufacturer (which makes Nissan , Mazda , Land Rover, Mercedes, Iveco and various buses under license) and the Association of Vehicle Assemblers, which builds Nissan Urvans and Land Rover one hundred ten models, in addition to bus figures, custom-design trailers, fire trucks and ambulances.
General Motors has an assembly plant in Nairobi that assembles heavy-commercial vehicles for sale within Kenya as well as for export to Burundi, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
