Used Car Discourse

  Month after month with unbelievable regularity we see the South African SUV sales list topped by the Toyota Fortuner. And it’s easy to see why the Toyota Fortuner for sale is such a big seller – it does everything well, with barely a flaw. The Fortuner’s recipe is a simple one – in 2005 Toyota took the rugged and dependable and Hilux as a base, subtly tweaked it for added comfort, and topped it off with a seven-seater SUV body. The result is a car that ticks every box: comfort, space, good road handling, rugged off-road ability, reliability and good equipment levels. In the 14 years since it was launched, it has been an unprecedented SUV success. In every model range, there is a sweet spot – one or two models that make the most sense, that are a good balance between what the customer wants and what the customer wants to spend. This is a subjective matter, but for me the sweet spot of the Fortuner range is the 2.4 GD-6 4x4 automatic. It may take some effort to find this Fortuner mode

Everyone, of course, would like to get a good deal when buying a car. Cars for sale in Port Elizabeth are not exactly cheap, and it is quite a large financial commitment when buying one. You have several choices when buying a car – a new car, a pre-owned car, and a demo car. Like most things in life, each one has its pros and cons. What do we mean by a demo car? A demo car is actually a new car that has been used a bit by a dealership. By that, we mean that the car has only low mileage on it due to the fact that it was used by prospective buyers for test drives, and dealership managers may also have used the car to and from work. The mileage of demo cars is usually under 5000 km, which is really not much when the average car can go to 200 000 km. The demo car is usually about 6 months old. If you are considering keeping the car for say 10 years, it means only 5% of its time has been used up. Why have a demo car in the first place? The real purpose behind having a demo car is that the