its a rebadged toyota thats why lol

It's the most unreliable machine of all time this.

@@taz89ful it's also owned by a car fanatic

@@user-kr1or1hm4v the most reliable*

Reliable... Maybe because engine and transmission working and all the other dead

And in china cars get driven harder than western countries. Thanks to cheap parts and labour vehicles generally run to 500-600k kms before they become too expensive to repair and pass inspections. Africa takes that to a whole new level.

Chinese cars from that time period are designed to go a maximum of 100.000 kilometres before the show was over, because in older days laws in china forbade cars doing more than 100k km.

@@BubbaSnipe As a Chinese I can responsibly say that China does not have this law.

@@FTMO_9986 No they do not have that kind of law today, but in older days it was like so according to what i have read.

@@BubbaSnipe Wtf did you read

thanks for the fun fact. Very interesting...

Это вы ещё в Приднестровье не были

And a 2010 Hyundai Santa Fe behind it.

H2

They're still a common sight in Louisiana

it almost never rains there

@@recycleman975 no man, we're among the most rainy places on earth

@@recycleman975Congratulations!!! your comment is whitest comment on KZfaq.

@@juniorboweya AMONG

@@juniorboweya then why cars do not have window glass ? they would fill with water

haha

Foton View is basically a knock-off Hiace with Isuzu engines on them. No wonder they're also a bit common here in the Philippines. It's on the lowest level or cheapest option on buying a van here.

@@padorukurumi6572 this explains the GM steering wheel

@@recycleman975 that's the OEM Foton steering wheel... No, General Motors anything un this van

Back in Malaysia lots of these Foton have been upbadged to Toyota Hiace.

Most likely the shirt made it to Africa as a donation. I'm gonna make a guess and say he doesn't know about drose

@@thewafen763 I'm pretty sure you are a 100% right. Can't believe there are people who assume that people over there care about or have money to buy something "famous"...

@@gentle285 I agree most of these people don't have internet and if they do they don't keep up with western culture

Probably "thrifting" haul We have similar situation here (there are a lot of shop selling used clothes from Japan, Korea, Europe, and USA, here it's called thrifting) albeit with run-in with customs. And not all type of clothes, it's usually something like coats, jeans, jackets, etc.

Don't think it would matter since they wouldnt repair the cars properly anyway.

In West Africa they have 2nd hands mainly from Europ and the US In east Africa, used cars are mainly from Japan In Congo (dr) we used to import from Western countries but these last 15 years market has been flooded by used cars from Japan - althought they got their wheel on the right side

@@juniorboweya Importing cars from geographically close continents would be advantageous in terms of transportation. The used car market in Africa is very interesting. It feels so mysterious that a car from a faraway country runs in a completely unfamiliar place!

@@Snufkin812 one thing : the dr Congo is huge; one side is turned towards athlantic and the other towards indian ocean exchanges... On an other register, used cars market from Western Europe and north america sends too much refurbished cars that dies after 2 years approx Whilst japan send younger cars, in better conditions (makes that have cheaper spares) so they conquered the market (basicaly indians take from Japan to dubai, then sell it from there) But even on the brand new cars market, european makes (merc, beemer, vw, Peugeot...) vanished... it's now Toyall the way (eg; the LC 100 200 or 300 replaced the s class & lc 90 120 150 replaced the E class - thanks to road conditions)

@@juniorboweya I believe that the condition of a used car that comes to Africa depends on many factors. 1. How the previous owner took care of the car. 2. Environment and culture of the exporting country. 3. And the conscience of the seller. One thing is for sure, we agree that Japanese used cars are in many ways better than American or European used cars! North America and Japan are very different in every way.

They are actually licensed by Toyota,Foton bought the design of old gen hiace from Toyota.......But equipped with an Isuzu/cummins engine

My guess would be, having a wrench isn't as normal there as you might think. And if the car drives, why "waste" money on a mechanic or tools. The bolt locking the steering wheel might be worn as well. Although i do think, that people over there don't want to put in the time. Some maintenance is really easy and just not done.

@@edwinvanderveen5527 there is nothing in this countries, not even tools, the van is probably aligned but im pretty sure nobody has the tools or know how on removing the steering wheel

As long as it drives, why not? In some area, some angkots here has this problem too (especially the one that looks beaten up just like this). This is also combined with broken piston rings (resulting in blue smoke), and bald tyres.

Under that horrible road condition, the van will be out of alignment again within the first 20km drive after the fix

@@ericericeric888 Your being a little dramatic.

poor country, poor problems.

It's not really dangerous, even if the car has power steering you can still steer without it Similarly with assisted brakes, they will still work for a few minutes or several full brake pedal pushes before vacuum runs out, and after that you can still brake without issue, just need to push the pedal harder the real danger is from turning off the engine by the key, you can very easily turn the key barrel too far back, and the steering lock may engage! This is very dangerous when driving if this occurs.

It is dangerous, abs don't work, and steering will get locked

@@RohanSanjith steering will get locked if you take the key off, I've driven my mk4 downhill with the engine off and it's totally manageable, albeit quite dumb and dangerous

It's dangerous because the car is basically freewheeling. With the engine on and in gear, the engine itself helps the car to brake, but besides that you also have vacuum on the brake lines which makes the pedal a LOT softer, without vacuum you almost have to put your whole weight on the pedal. You will also have power steering, ESC, ABS and all other electronic driving assists. You can drive a car with the engine off but keep the key on the barrel for the steering not to lock. You just won't have any assist and it's very dangerous to do so because you're basically inside a 2ton metal jail soapbox car.

​@@RohanSanjith this car doesn't have power steering and it certainly does not have ABS.

if the engine's not running the brake would still work, but since the Brake Booster doesn't work you need to put a lot of weight on the brake pedal to stop the vehicle unless it has Air Brakes 🤷‍♂ you still have assisted brakes as long as the Air Supply Tank has sufficient pressure

You can still use the brakes about 5 full pedal pushes before the booster looses vacuum, and even afterwards it's fine using the brakes unassisted, just need more force

if it never stopped since 2003 it probably did no less than 1,000,000km's 😂 or double that if it has long distance routes

but what if the slope gives you just the right speed without braking ? If you need to slow down sure killing the engine seems like a bad idea, but if you don't then I guess you're saving a tiny bit of fuel by killing it. As for safety well it's another matter

@@polosh100 it could work

yep

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road rage

Yep，but is toyota license car.

yep

african roads, it must be hard to mantain a car in a deprived country like the congo

Point of view. 1st person, like some videogames have.

@@xavalintm oh ok..I thought pov had a different meaning here other than point of view.

Alignment is off is what I think.

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