Sep 10 2016

92 years later, when you Google, "overview of Africa motor industry," the first nine results display information on the South African Motor industry. No search results from any other part of Africa comes up.

On Wednesday, Volkswagen signed a deal to use the Kenya Vehicle Manufacturers plant in Thika to assemble its car models beginning with the Volkswagen Vivo.

The announcement follows closely in the wake of a similar deal with CMC Motors Group in July this year with a commitment to pump money in KVM in what they termed as 'investing according to scale and opportunity', in the KVM plant

The German automaker used to operate in Kenya in the 1960s until 1977 and used to assemble Volkswagen vans, microbuses and the famous Kombi

Hailed by President Kenyatta as a milestone in his administration's determined push to grow the manufacturing base and transform Kenya into an industrialized nation, the announcements have been welcomed by industry players

According to a Deloitte Africa Motor Industry insights report, in 2014, Kenya had a vehicle fleet of around 1.3 million units, of which 80 percent were second-hand