So, the current rule is that no vehicles older than 8 years are allowed, problem with that law is that it is very unfair to those who value classic vehicles, they are locked out. Think e.g. concour d'elegance.

Apparently, the reason for that law is to prevent beat cars from entering the country (safely, emissions).

Going to extremes is easy, but finding a balance is more difficult, but with a balanced law, a win win situation will be created.

The proposal is to amend the law so that it still fulfills the initial intention, while this time, not locking out those that value classical vehicles. The new law will be a balanced law, but a balanced law requires work, to think things out, hence the reason why going extreme is easy, as it is with the current law, that simply states, no vehicle older than 8 yrs is allowed.

To amend the law to meet the above specifications could mean that old vehicles are allowed, but are taxed just high enough that one who just wants to get a cheap old vehicle will not see the point, they'd see that it will be better if he or she just gets one that is not older than 8 yrs, on the other hand, those who value classics, will be willing to pay because they know what they are getting, besides, the classic car will be from leisure cash.

A win win win situation will be created, a balance.

- The classic car person will be satisfied his or her classic vehicle.
- The normal vehicle buyers will be protected from getting an older vehicle, by The individual seeing no point of getting an old vehicle, when a newer vehicle will cost just as much, maybe even cheaper than a highly-taxed older vehicle.
- The government gets to collect tax on classic vehicles.

My proposal.

Is there aspects of eating that can be incorporated into that law? If yes, then you can start lobbying the relevant authorities....

Not too sure what you mean.

Well,I'm hoping that parliamentarians pick this up.

Please, if anyone in Wazua knows any parliamentarian, pls hit them up with this link.

Schedule an appointment with your member of parliament. That's why they were elected in the first place. There is a 99% chance he will ask for chicken but since you are a rich man, that should not be a problem.

Methinks this is a useful proposal which just needs a good forward looking MP to advance. The taxes for a vehicle above 8 years could be set at a level that is too punitive as to ensure that importing such from Japan for instance is pointless - unless you fancy some classic vehicle.

It could earn the gava more revenue actually

They = Jubilee?

Yes!

So EA wants to ban imports? Well, SA banned second-hand imports.

http://www.iol.co.za/new...these-cheap-cars-280264

Good thing with SA is that they have diverse factories that assemble vehicles within the country. BMW, Benz, VW, Hyundai, Nissan, Toyota, Renult, Ford, thus allowing lower vehicle costs than if the vehicles were imported new. In addition, interest rates in SA are relatively low, at about 10%, with a strong rand (relative to KES), so lots of people can buy new cars with their first job.

In Kenya, I know some trucks get assembled, not sure about sedans, which are the majority of vehicles on the road, so before Gov can effect that bill, they should be rational enough to first ensure that the people will have a decent variety of options.

See this video below of a pile-up, see if you can identify the vehicles involved, those are "normal" or "average" types of vehicles found on SA roads. Point is that the quality of cars in Kenyan roads will improve with the ban of imports, but right now, I don't think that the economics match (Earnings vs cost of new vehicles). Local manufacturing will need to radically bring the price down, and people need to have good interest rates.




With clothing, that ban can happen much earlier because making clothes is much easier, lots of folk can get self employed in manufacturing - creating a new class of people, to supply the traders, so the traders just switch from imports to local.

On classic cars, they have a special place in economies globally. With SA, even though they have banned the importation of used vehicles, they have provision to import classic cars, why should Kenya not have the provision?

Quoting:

"Vintage vehicles (40 years old or older) and vehicles which are regarded as collectors’ vehicles are also allowed in. Collectors’ items are not so easy to define, so the DTI (Department of Trade and Industry) discusses requests with the South African Veteran and Vintage Association, which complies with international criteria."

http://www.carmag.co.za/...car-can-be-a-nightmare/

SAVVA Website: http://savva.org.za/About.html

The South African Veteran and Vintage Association website classifies classic vehicles up to Class G. The only thing that I wonder about class G is with regards to the age limit. They say that class G begins from 1971 going forward "to the SAVVA age Limit as defined in the Constituition". If the constitution says that the minimum age of a classic vehicle is 20 years, it means that newer vehicles that are considered to be iconic in the motoring fraternity will be locked out because they are not at least 20 years, e.g. the R34.

https://en.wikipedia.org....281999.E2.80.932002.29

The proposal for Kenya's law should not have minimum age requirements of what should be considered to be a classic, as "beauty is in the eye of the beholder".

Paul Walker's collection, a true motor head from Fast and Furious would not have his collection if he lived in Kenya, as most, of the iconic vehicles that he has are older than 8 years.

http://topmotors.com/new...st-check-out-his-garage[/quote]

Nani ata summarize?