More Than 17 Obsolete Cars on Sale in Pakistan
Astonishingly, there are around 17 globally retired cars currently being sold in Pakistan as ‘new’.
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Policymakers’ Love With the On-Money Devil
Time and time journalists & researchers have pointed out the malpractices in the auto sector, especially regarding the on-money (own/ premium). During all these years, policymakers made some cosmetic measures to show they are serious to curb this menace, but no concrete measure has ever been taken to tackle the devil.
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Pakistan is the Only Place Where Old Sportage is Still Assembled
Pakistan remains the only country where the obsolete 4th gen Sportage is still being assembled.
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Road Isn’t Going to be Easy for Local Assemblers
It is expected that the output figures of locally assembled automobiles are going to remain significantly lower in future and assemblers will continue to observe non-production days till the import restrictions are lifted. How the industry is going to survive in these tough times with the absence of Plan B, is something we will have to watch out for.
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Newcomers and Obsolete Cars in Pakistan
Not only that most of the vehicles introduced by newcomers are priced in an outrageously higher domain catering to those with strong purchase power only, but the majority of what has been launched is also obsolete & discarded from the rest of the world.
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“Introduced” After Retirement
There are several examples when cars were introduced here after they were either replaced by a newer generation model, or were simply discontinued elsewhere.
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Has Pakistan’s Auto Policy Benefited the Masses?
Car buying options for the masses during the Musharraf regime without a definite auto policy were much more diverse compared to the current era.
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Almost Half a Century- No Change- No Progress
The Suzuki Ravi & Bolan duo, which are the pickup & minivan iterations of ST90 Carry model, were first produced in Japan in 1979. And to no surprise Pak Suzuki is still “assembling” them in year 2022 and has efficiently kept us 5 generations behind the global Suzuki Carry model.
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Car Sales Drop to Lowest in More Than 2 Years
Sales of locally assembled passenger cars in Pakistan dropped to the lowest in more than 2 years as rising prices suppressed demand and import curbs hurt production even before the full impact of the devastating floods are factored in.
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Car Sales Going Down, Where is Plan B?
Will the local assemblers just sit back and “wait” for the situation to improve, or is there any Plan B?
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