Toyotaâs new Urban Cruiser compact SUV to hit SA shores in March
By Jason Woosey
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JOHANNESBURG - Toyota South Africa gave us some heart warming news on Thursday with the announcement that the first ever Corolla Cross SUV would be built at the companyâs local assembly plant in Prospecton from October this year.
However, given that the newcomer will be positioned between the CH-R and Rav4, where it will almost certainly hit a sweet spot in the market, itâs still not going to be an option for those shopping at the lower end of the market.
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It s taken half a century, but at last we have discovered the true meaning of the name given to Suzuki s inordinately cute off-roader, the Jimny.
Speaking at the 50 Year Celebration of Jimny production at the ADA off-road centre near Hartbeespoort dam, Suzuki Auto South Africa s Managing Director, Yukio Sato, revealed the name came about as an amalgamation of Jeep and Mini , - in other words, a miniature Jeep.
Nowadays Suzuki doesn t exactly relish any reference to the Jeep brand, but when the Suzuki SJ 410 was launched in South Africa in the early 1980s, everyone referred to it as the Suzuki Jeep . The term Jeep was pretty much generic in those days, to the extent where small Land Rovers were also referred to as Jeeps.