Something that struck me as strange was the massive number of luxury 4x4 barges cruising around the area of Luanda I am in. For example, I see more Y62 Patrols here in a few minutes than I have ever seen in Pretoria. Walking the three-odd hundred metres from my hotel today to a (very nice) local retaurant for my lonely, Sunday, boozey lunch I saw several. There were three that drove past me on the way. There was one parked at my hotel. And there is another one parked just around the corner from the restaurant. Yesterday between a shopping mall and my hotel, five drove past and one was parked at the hotel (not the same one as this morning). And these are just Y62 Patrols. I'm not particularly interested in Cruisers and G-Wagons and similar, but there are a gazillion of those here too...
And I was wondering, how do so many people afford Y62's here. Over my pre-lunch beer, I did a bit of googling. I could not get a price on a new Y62 - I'm actually not even sure if you can buy them new here. But the going rate for a Y62 seems to be between Angolan Kwanza 8,000,000 and 10,000,000 second hand.
This model here in the picture below is priced at the princely sum of Kwanza 9,000,000. Which works out to about ZAR357,132. Which is probably at least R600,000 cheaper than you will pay for a similar second hand model in "ye goode olde" ZAR.
Just makes one realise how much the MIDP has shafted us.
