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Buying, owning and paying for a bakkie

Written against the live market, not from a brochure. Every price in these guides is checked against what is actually listed for sale in South Africa.

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The black Toyota Hilux FCEV Concept in GR Sport dress with H2 fuel cell electric vehicle graphics

Models · 19 Sept 2026

The hydrogen Hilux is confirmed for 2028. Here is what it actually means for South Africa

Toyota has put a date on the fuel-cell Hilux, and the prototypes that got it there started life on the Prospecton line in Durban. The bakkie is real. Whether you will ever be able to fill one up in South Africa is a different question, and this is an honest look at both.

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Two white Toyota Hilux Raider double cabs side by side: a 2024 2.8 GD-6 on the left and a 2013 3.0 D-4D with the bonnet scoop on the right

Models · 14 Sept 2026

Buying a used Hilux: 2.4 or 2.8 GD-6, or one of the old D-4Ds?

Nine in ten used-Hilux buyers are shopping a GD-6 and arguing about the 2.4 against the 2.8. The tenth wants the old shape with the scoop, and pays Toyota tax to get it. Live asking prices for every Hilux engine sold here since 2005, the faults priced in rand, the Ranger comparison, and the theft, cloning and clocking checks that come with owning the most hijacked bakkie in the country.

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A black GWM P500 double cab in the desert at sunset, the flagship of the P-Series range

Models · 12 Sept 2026

The Chinese double cabs, compared: P-Series, T9, Tunland, Landtrek and the rest

Five years ago a Chinese bakkie was a punchline. Now the GWM P-Series outsells most of the established names and there are seven brands chasing it. What each one is, what it costs used, how fast it loses value and which ones the market has started to trust.

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