postmann:


True. Toyota has good resale value and good sales numbers thanks to their cheaper price. VW is cheap too and enjoys high sales too.

But Toyota's bread and butter of sales couldn't break into Europe, the continent of cars and had to be discontinued there in the mid '90's

Toyota's, philosophy is to produce cheaper cars for the world's poorer economies, same philosophy first imbibed by VW with their famous beatles.

KIA and others have adopted the same philosophy and like Toyota they are known for playing safe, never venturing into groundbreaking innovation.

so the American and Australian markets arr the world's poorer economies ; D
the Mercedes Benz has A-class, B-class and C-class, are they also expensive? Why are they not littered everywhere in the "poorer economies"?

postmann:

"Overview
If you’re reading this and saying, “I didn't know Kia made a luxury sedan,” you’re not alone. The K900 is a muscular four-door stuffed with leather, wood trim, and electronic amusements all as standard. The base engine is a 311-hp V-6, while a 420-hp V-8 is optional. The steering is numb and the suspension is soft. Kia wants buyers to think the K900 is a value compared with its more-expensive competitors, but we’d rather spend less for a car that is more about driving than gadgets."

Above is the review of the k900 by Car and driver with 2.5 star rating.

If you mean 6speed auto transmission in a Kia vehicle in 2009, then I should tell you in concrete terms the 2002 Mercedes-Benz C Class is which an entry level model (not even a mid- size sedan) was equipped with a 6speed auto Trans as standard.

As far as cars goes, Europe do 90% of the innovations with the rest coming from the U.S . So negligible a few come elswhere.

Mercedes used 5Gtronic bro even in E and S class till 05/06. In 2003 mercedes introduced the 7Gtronic for V8 applications . In 2009 5GTronic was still used in their v12 and i4. Do your research bro.

Back to the matter for an economy car to be having a 6sp auto plus EPS while others went CVT is laudable. Go research more on this. May I remind you, in 2013 Ford still used 6sp auto?
In 2002 bmw also started using EPS whereas it was first used in a japmobile?

ChristineC:
so the American and Australian markets arr the world's poorer economies ; D
the Mercedes Benz has A-class, B-class and C-class, are they also expensive? Why are they not littered everywhere in the "poorer economies"?

The A and B class are new models. The A class was introduced in 1999 and the B class much later. As for the C class, it's the highest selling entry level luxury.

kingreign:


Mercedes used 5Gtronic bro even in E and S class till 05/06. In 2003 mercedes introduced the 7Gtronic for V8 applications . In 2009 5GTronic was still used in their v12 and i4. Do your research bro.

Back to the matter for an economy car to be having a 6sp auto plus EPS while others went CVT is laudable. Go research more on this. May I remind you, in 2013 Ford still used 6sp auto?
In 2002 bmw also started using EPS whereas it was first used in a japmobile?

True but some models like the 2nd generation C class a model spanning 2000 to 2006 had 7 speed auto. The 6 speed I earlier reported was in error.

The point is before Kia and other Asian brands got up to 6 speed auto, Benz were in 7 speed already.

More powerful engines and most 4matics have reduced transmission for obvious reasons.

postmann:


True but some models like the 2nd generation C class a model spanning 2000 to 2006 had 7 speed auto. The 6 speed I earlier reported was in error.

The point is before Kia and other Asian brands got up to 6 speed auto, Benz were in 7 speed already.

More powerful engines and most 4matics have reduced transmission for obvious reasons.

You have time. Someone talking about Kia and Mercedes ought to be shot in his pallets for such automobile blasphemy.

Most of these Asian car fanboys haven't driven a Mercedes all their lives. God help this country. This was how Nigerians adopted blackberry phones when the brand was already dying worldwide and thought they were using state of the art phones.

Now it's only in Nigeria someone would buy a Camry or Honda and start feeling posh.

Kendrick Lamar bought a 2017 Camry for his graduatiing kid sister and was mocked on Twitter for choosing a poor car for her!

Shroud:


You have time. Someone taking about Kia and Mercedes ought to be shot in his pallets for such automobile blasphemy.

Most of these Asian car fanboys haven't driven a Mercedes all their lives. God help this country. This was how Nigerians adopted blackberry phones when the brand was already dying worldwide and thought they were is using state of the art phones.

Now it's only in Nigeria someone would buy a Camry or Honda and start feeling posh.

Kendrick Lamar bought a 2017 Camry for his graduatiing kid sister and was mocked on Twitter for choosing a poor car for her!

You have issues. Real personality issues.
Yes I drive a Lexus RX330 I've owned a number of cars before it and I still bought other cars while still owning it.
Claiming you did 160km/h taking selfies and shyyte you full of shyyte dude.
I've driven mercs countless times even models you only see and admire. Stop running your your mouth like a rabid dog on heat.


Jeez keyboard warriors

I'm ready for you. Respond lemme descend on you

kingreign:


You have issues. Real personality issues.
Yes I drive a Lexus RX330 I've owned a number of cars before it and I still bought other cars while still owning it.
Claiming you did 160km/h taking selfies and shyyte you full of shit dude.
I've driven mercs countless times even models you only see and admire. Stop running your your mouth like a rabid dog on heat.


Jeez keyboard warriors

now this dirty piece of human garbage is fulfilling his wet dreams in Nairaland. Writing and claiming stuffs none of his mundane bloodlines ever achieved.

If you drive a Lexus and still rate Kia, then you're numb in perception and suffering from advance stages of perceptual distortions and virtual impairment.

You're a phoney and a sham. Your greatest achievement is what you wrote on Nairaland pages while you're a beachcombing vagabond outside the walls of Nairaland.

Kids gloves off! One more personal shiit from you, then I will cut off your testicles with a tetanus-infected blade and stuff it in your windpipe and your last vision will be the Mercedes none of your pathetic lineage has the means to own.

Blazing idiot.

Shroud:
now this dirty piece of human garbage is fulfilling his wet dreams in Nairaland. Writing and claiming stuffs none of his mundane bloodlines ever achieved.

If you drive a Lexus and still rate Kia, then you're numb in perception and suffering from advance stages of perceptual distortions and virtual impairment.

You're a phoney and a sham. Your greatest achievement is what you wrote on Nairaland pages while you're a beachcombing vagabond outside the walls of Nairaland.

Kids gloves off! One more personal shiit from you, then I will cut off your testicles with a tetanus-infected blade and stuff it in your windpipe and your last vision will be the Mercedes none of your pathetic lineage has the means to own.

Blazing idiot.

Maggot do your worse. I bet you never own a merc. Or even a bolt. Sore arse loser leprosy. Infested demon.
Spit in your scar face.

You as useless as a toilet paper used in cleaning the arse of a swine.

kingreign:


Maggot do your worse. I bet you never own a merc. Or even a bolt. Sore arse loser leprosy. Infested demon.
Spit in your scar face.

so this is the "descend" you just bragged about if I responded!!!

What an empty , un-improvising lying piece of dirtbag you are!!!

I should use your morbid flesh as a doucherag to clean the windshield of my Mercedes for a start then toss you into the murky bowl of water for my rims and tyres.

Thunder shave your inflated balls there.

Putrid sac of human pus.

Shroud:
so this is the "descend" you just bragged about if I responded!!!

What an empty , un-improvising lying piece of dirtbag you are!!!

I should use your morbid flesh as a doucherag to clean the windshield of my Mercedes for a start then toss you into the murky bowl of water for my rims and tyres.

Thunder shave your inflated balls there.

Putrid sac of human pus.

You've been all about balls dicks and et al. You a gay homofaggot
Tell the devil I say hi when you get back to where you from.
Go and die you dingbat
I'm done. I don't discuss with gay homofaggot. You reek of stüpïdity.

Kingreign is struggling with his responses. I see him going back to edit his lines like a curb prostitute.

And the lying regurgitation of nature says he owns a couple Mercedes, Lexus and have driven and bought others before this.

How many cars do you own, mister? As much as your mom has taken corks in her stinking cesspit she calls her tunnel of love

Airheaded plonker.

kingreign:


You've been all about balls dicks and et al. You a gay homofaggot
Tell the devil I say hi when you get back to where you from.
Go and die you dingbat
I'm done. I don't discuss with gay homofaggot. You reek of stüpïdity.

ask your father , I stretched your mother and sent her limping and bent like a question mark (?) back to your dopey father.

The yellow-bellied fool called kingreign takes a bow and scurries out of the thread after I drowned him in the bowl of a public un-flushed toilet.

So much boasting and nothing in his large empty head.

Shroud:
The yellow-bellied fool called kingreign takes a bow and scurries out of the thread after I drowned him in the bowl of a public un-flushed toilet.

So much boasting and nothing in his large empty head.

Phweeeew! So much volcanic eruption in a couple of minutes!

Your 'shroud' handle is misleading or no one knows you as monster troll here!

postmann:


Phweeeew! So much volcanic eruption in a couple of minutes!

Your 'shroud' handle is misleading or no one knows you as monster troll here!

shroud is a quiet moniker innocent.

Easy guys.
Come on! No need for the cuss words.

kingreign:


Maggot do your worse. I bet you never own a merc. Or even a bolt. Sore arse loser leprosy. Infested demon.
Spit in your scar face.

You as useless as a toilet paper used in cleaning the arse of a swine.

SmartToyota:
Easy guys.
Come on! No need for the cuss words.

Quote me not. Quote the ïmbeçile who started it

Shroud:
Kendrick Lamar bought a 2017 Camry for his graduatiing kid sister and was mocked on Twitter for choosing a poor car for her!

you see? The young man in question saw all the other cars both European and American, but he bought the Camry because he had absolute trust in the capabilities of the car; and his sister loved it. That's all that matters brother. His sister will not be driving at 160km/hr at any point of her life, and if so she can buy a Toyota Supra or Lexus LFA.

Is there any reason to point out this guy isn't Nigerian and doesn't live in Nigeria? Is it that he bought the car because it is too cheap (he could have gotten a Ford or Buick sedans to show patriotism) or he just didn't have money?

What's his business with mockery from people who wouldn't mind their own businesses?

ChristineC:
you see? The young man in question saw all the other cars both European and American, but he bought the Camry because he had absolute trust in the capabilities of the car; and his sister loved it. That's all that matters brother. His sister will not be driving at 160km/hr at any point of her life, and if so she can buy a Toyota Supra or Lexus LFA.

Is there any reason to point out this guy isn't Nigerian and doesn't live in Nigeria? Is it that he bought the car because it is too cheap (he could have gotten a Ford or Buick sedans to show patriotism) or he just didn't have money?

What's his business with mockery from people who wouldn't mind their own businesses?

Lamar's response was she was still too young to drive an expensive car.

My point is that it's a stark contrast to how Toyota is perceived in Nigeria.

Have two friends whom we all graduated together. One drives a Toyota venza 2016 V6 and the other drives a Jaguar xf V8 5.0 litre engine.

The dude with the venza in all honesty looks down and boasts his venza is costlier then the Jag and even boast in a beer parlour.

Where. I told him the Jag costs 84 thousand dollars and the venza only costs 38 thousand dollars , we nearly fought. That's how Nigeria overhype and overrate Toyota models as king of cars.

The Jag will buy the company venza twice over and have change for 2016 American used Toyota Corolla.

kingreign:


Quote me not. Quote the ïmbeçile who started it

i started it? you're the lying emotional bitch with bipolar disorder.

Rolls royce is owned by BMW bruv.

jaxxy:
My love for vw is pretty obvious. Vw portfolio shud even be much higher if not for the emissions test scandal that cost its several billions of dollars in fines in America and Europe, vw, Porche, Bentley, Lamborghini...

I don't see lexus on top valuable brands or probably it was classified under toyota there. Ferrari is undoubtably a very strong brand.

Benz oozes alot of class with its new collection i however don't think they did justice to the All New Gwag and aston martins progression and value change is astronomical.

Why is rolls Royce not on this list I know bmw bought over its car division bt its still a brand on its own.

Apart from the German cars..... I'll prefer Honda to Toyota