Q). With a budget of between Sh. 400,000 and Sh. 350,000, should I buy a Toyota Passo, a Nissan Note or a Mazda Demio? Which one among these can serve my basic travel needs, has good space, is easy to maintain and to source spare parts, and one that I can resell easily later when I want to upgrade.
A). Buy the Demio. I will not even bother going into long explanations on whys and whats, just get the Demio.
I’ve driven it and been driven in it and used it to carry luggage for four to and from the airport and gone to look at land for sale in remote areas with it and pootled around in the city in it and revved it hard and overtaken many cars in it and marvelled at its economy and punchiness of the engine and… just buy the Demio.
It is also pretty. The others look like electrical appliances used for laundry, or cold storage, or large scale printing duties. The sort of stuff you find hidden in corners of a room where the sunlight never reaches. Get the Demio.