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SA bakkie’s crash test fail ‘an insult for Africans’

19 February 2020 - 07:00 By wendy knowler
Wendy Knowler Consumer journalist
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The 2015 European car is equipped with the lifesaving crash-avoidance anti-skid system, Electronic Stability Control (ESC), but the new African version is not.
The 2015 European car is equipped with the lifesaving crash-avoidance anti-skid system, Electronic Stability Control (ESC), but the new African version is not.
Image: 123RF/Elizabeth Crego

A complete disdain for African motorists for the sake of profit.

This is the cutting view of the AA chief following a shocking crash test that proved an SA-made bakkie’s safety performance is vastly inferior to that of a five-year-old European version.

 

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