Ethiopia: Hilux and Corolla favourites, Holland Car gets noticed
Holland Car Awash Executive in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia September 2010
* Click on title for Addis Ababa street scenes! *
The second country to be put under the spotlight this month is Ethiopia, where along from the usual suspects Toyota and other Japanese and Korean brands, a local brand, Holland Car, is making a splash…
In the busy streets of Addis Ababa and based on thorough observation through recent YouTube videos, Toyota rules with the Hilux, Corolla, Hiace and Land Cruiser among the favourite new cars. The 2003 Hyundai Atos, Suzuki Vitara, Chery QQ and Mitsubishi L200 are also very popular.
Holland Car Abay
Holland Car, created in 2005 and the very first Ethiopian car assembler, is starting to get noticed in the crazy Addis traffic with the Abay, a rebadged Lifan 520. The cooperation with Chinese manufacturer Lifan has been replaced with another Chinese brand, JAC, in 2009 with the launches of the Tekeze (JAC Tojoy hb), Abay Executive (JAC Tojoy sedan), Awash Executive (JAC B-Class) and Shebele (JAC B-Cross).
More information about Holland Cars and Addis Ababa street scenes below.
A very good article on the Holland Car brand from Radio Netherlands Worldwide is here, the Holland Car wikipedia page is here and the official Holland Car website is here.
This speculation is based on the observation of the streets of Addis Ababa through recent YouTube videos. Please get in touch if you have any more info!
Holland Car Abay
Addis Ababa street scene
Addis Ababa Street Scene, picture by dda1605. All Rights reserved
Addis Ababa Street Scene
Addis Ababa street scene
Toyota Corolla in Addis Ababa, February 2010
Toyota Hiace in Addis Ababa, February 2010
Info by Joska on Flickr
Pictures: www.rnw.nl, www.youtube.com, Holland Car
There are a number of latest technology cars present in the market.Among these cars it has become impossible for anyone to choose one car and derive it in a proper manner, but we are lucky enough that we have achieved an opportunity to read an article purely based on Holland Car and its factors which are increasing its sales and demand in the market .
The Chinese car is Lifan not Ligan
So the national Ethiopian car company is called Holland and they rebadge Chinese cars? Reality IS weirder than fiction
Isn’it tuga
Reason is: Ethiopia has a tradition of importing (very) used cars from the Netherlands and Holland Car was originally a car importer…
i would like to now exact of abay executive car price
i would like to buy a car from holland car assembling.but i would like the price
I would like to now the exact price of Abay Executive car