Well I am silent reader of this forum and do visit twice or thrice PW a day to gain more knowledge about cars but this thread urged me to comment.
Keeping the facts straight, yesterday someone shared a link of Honda Jazz that will compete with Prius C class in Japan, Fit will cost around 13000USD [as per the source mentioned, the official website suggests $15,425 as starting price] in Japan that makes it 1379300 PKR (as of today; 1USD = 1.6 PKR - google), so a hatch back with all the safety equipment you people need roughly cost 150K+ the current price of Suzuki Swift.
Now since the duty is 200% a import of the same vehicle(brand new) is surely not a feasible decision.. Let us assume Honda start assembling it in our country importing all the parts and training the local engineers and 3S staff from abroad how to work on these vehicles, the price will at least spike a 75-100% making it a whopping 2.5million, please bring me around 500 confirmed customers to buy Honda Fit and I'll make sure Honda Atlas start producing these units here. (Sarcasm)
Now compare the cost of securing a XLi, GLi, Altis, City, Civic just like they are secured in USA Japan or any other country.. On one side you need safety on the other side you want the price tag of:
Mehran dropped to 350K
Cultus 600K
Swift 1million
XLi/GLi/City 1.3 million
Altis/Civic 1.6 million
because right now they are sooo much highly priced..
Honda Toyota aside Suzuki will secure mehran with 6bags if you can buy it for the justified price...
Now lets forget the ***** I wrote above, JDM Vitz, Mira, Alto, Otty costs around 800K-1.2million WHEN:
* They have been abused/used for three three years
* Have more than 100K on the odo (this is debatable but the larger educated part of pw community understands surely)
* Have a few dings & dents here and there
Our larger part of car community is happy with there NEW cars but the official seller can't practice this thing here, imagine Honda/Toyota providing you importing vehicles and the salesman is telling:
- Sir es wali ka left fender repair hai
- Nae ye app ko nae deni es ka meter reverse hai 150K
- Ye tu sari paint hai.. 10killoo pateen utre gi es gari se agr repaint krvani par gae
- Ye app le lein, brand new gari hai... low mileage sealed engine bus tsunami/radiation effected hai... Bht fit chale gi
No! neither this can happen.. lets forget this ***** this as well
Lets talk about another story, forget Honda Toyota; last mehran our family bought was back in 07 that costed us 380K on the factory invoice now the same car costs around 700K as a member wrote above, WHY? :o
- Back in 2007 1 USD was 60.6 PKR (link: USD to PKR Rates on 9/26/2007 - Exchange Rates)
- Inflation rate was much lower than the current rate
- blah blah blah - blah blah blah; a student of economy can fill the rest with a lot more things
and people were neither happy that time nor they are right now.. but what these local manufactures can do?
You don't need a price increase & in this price they can only provide you the crap which CAN BE built in THIS price and its a loose loose situation because neither we nor the manufacturers can afford a WIN WIN situation
Conclusion: Its just our economy that is making us suffer, we as a nation are so much drowned that we are far away from becoming civilized and until we improve ourselves, no one is going to help us except providing us scrapped cars
We don't pay taxes, we don't care about local laws and we help these *******$ climb the same chair (govt.) not once, not twice but the ****!n third time.. :mad: :mad: :mad: Ab tabdelii aye gi they are serious this time just like they were back in Ameer-ul-momineen movement
Please improve yourself or live with this dream of "AB TABDELII AYE GI"
A LETTER WILL MAKE HONDA TOYOTA START BUILDING CARS WITH DUAL AIRBAGS?? NO IT WOULDN'T
p.s: no offence to anyone including JDM car owners