OVER 250 000 people who attended the annual harvest festival at
Bothaville last week helped to make the Nampo show bigger than even the Sema
show for bling parts to pimp cars with in Las Vegas.
Among the gargantuan
tractors pulling mammoth wagons, this year’s festival also showed Suzuki’s tiny
Gipsy bakkie (top), which currently sells only in Namibia, and various campers
(bottom right) built onto the sturdy ladderframes of Iveco panelvans’.
City-slicker and Automotive Business
Review editor Graham Erasmus (top) could not get over the size of
the farming economies that drive sales of these behemoths.
The secret is in
the show specials. Iveco dropped R110k on the demo Iveco Daily and added R25k in accessories to make this dropside with its 24 diff ratios the
most 4x4 for the money in SA.
