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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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A silver Changan Hunter double cab kicking up sand on a sandy track with bush behind it

Models · 29 Oct 2026

Changan Hunter review: is it worth buying in SA?

Changan is the old Chana, and last time its importer went bust. Now it is back with a double cab that testers rate and dealers advertise for R100,000 under list. What a Hunter really costs, what it does badly, how the hybrid works, and what else the money buys.

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A beige Kia Tasman double cab with black wheel arches and all-terrain tyres on a dirt track beside sandstone rocks and pine trees

Models · 29 Oct 2026

Kia Tasman review: SA price, specs and used prices

Kia's first bakkie costs R680,000 to R1 million new. Here is what each version gets, what the road tests said, what nearly new ones ask, and how it stacks up against a Ranger, Hilux, D-Max and Navara.

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A grey LDV T60 double cab 4x4 with Gauteng plates climbing a rutted red-dirt track through bushveld

Models · 29 Oct 2026

LDV T60 and Terron 9 in South Africa: should you buy one?

An LDV gives you more power for the money than its rivals. It also comes with 15 dealers, almost no owner record and the biggest first-year price drop of the double cabs we compared. What each one costs, what has gone wrong, and who should buy one.

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White Mahindra Pik Up double cab on a muddy gravel track in the veld

Models · 08 Oct 2026

Mahindra Pik Up Review: Is It a Good Bakkie?

The Pik Up costs far less than a Hilux or D-Max and the engine is tough. Here is what owners complain about, what used ones ask and who should buy one.

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A blue Toyota Hilux 2.8 GD-6 Legend double cab climbing a rocky slope under a storm sky

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 powering through white coastal dunes, towing a trailer with two quad bikes

Models · 12 Sept 2026

Chinese double cabs in South Africa: P-Series, T9, Tunland, Landtrek and Shark 6, compared

Nobody on a bakkie forum recommends a Chinese double cab unless you ask. South Africans buy about 5,000 P-Series a year anyway. What each one costs new and used, what goes wrong and what it costs to fix, what a used one is worth at three years, and what a Hilux or Ranger buys for the same money.

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