25 docc cars sold in the last three months and 75 since november 2006..

has anyone driven this car or does anyone know anyone who has test driven this car?

http://www.eitb24.com/new/en/B24_55915/Business/HOLLAND-CAR-Ambitious-entrepreneur-opens-Ethiopias-first/

'HOLLAND CAR'
Ambitious entrepreneur opens Ethiopia's first car assembly plant
07/02/2007

Based in the town of Mojo, 65 km outside of Addis Ababa, 'Holland Car' is the brainchild of Tadesse Tessema, who lived in the Netherlands for 27 years but decided he could start a successful business in his homeland.
Ethiopia's known as a mass producer of such commodities as coffee and leather, but one ambitious Ethiopian is introducing a new idea to the country. Returning after nearly 30 years abroad, Tadesse Tessema has opened Ethiopia's first vehicle assembly plant - to the surprise of many Ethiopians.

Based in the town of Mojo, 65 kilometres outside of Addis Ababa, 'Holland Car' is the brainchild of Tadesse Tessema. Tesseme lived in the Netherlands for the last 27 years and exported cars to Ethiopia. But he decided that if he returned to his homeland he could start a successful business and help create employment. More than $2.5 million USD has been invested in this car assembly plant.

The Dutch Government invested $650,000 USD under its 'Poverty Reduction Plan'. As part of the deal, the Dutch Government requested the company should be a joint venture between Dutch and Ethiopian companies.

The car is partially assembled in China and sent to Ethiopia's neighbour Djbouti. It's then transported 1,000 kilometres by road to this factory south west of the Ethiopian capital where it arrives as a skeleton.

Tadesse team of 75 staff assembles the vehicles. More than 30% of the mechanics are women.

Tadesse named the new car, whose design was based on a Fiat 131, 'DOCC' - after the Dutch Overseas Car Company. The 1.6 litre five gear DOCC sells for around $13,000 US Dollars new and comes with a one year warranty and in 8 colours: silver, grey and black being the most popular.

25 cars sold in last three months

In the last three months Tadesse has sold 25 cars and 75 in total since becoming fully operational in November 2006. He plans to build 500 vehicles between now and December and in the future aims to have 2,000 built per year (6 per day).

Tadesse hopes that his enterprise will help to change the image of Ethiopia as an impoverished country. While he tries to improve his country's image - Tadesse's also planning to improve the environment and in the future will convert the cars to use the more environmentally-friendly LPG - liquefied petroleum gas.

If Tadesse can find enthusiastic customers, he'll eventually be able to expand into pick-up trucks, 4 Wheel Drives and light trucks as he says his country needs be less dependent on foreign vehicles. He's hoping that within a short space of time his cars will be speeding off the assembly line.

Latest developments...


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Source: Holland Car PLC


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betam arif new!

Though they spelled it wrong I like the name (it should be spelled Abbay- not Abay)...


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teseQele bilugn tebmenjaw neiw biye
teseQele bilugn shigutu neiw biye
lekas Belay norual tiliQu sewiye!!

anteee aleskkkk... yiqdemihna yemiqedim neger. ye awstralia kangaroowoch yiqdemoohina... How did you know about it before me? I just found out about it this week.. and I have been contemplating on all the bad things I'd do to that car if I owned it

yes, i'm in love with it

and ye Addis mengedoch be Abay ashebrqewal alooo.. I haven't seen one from upclose yet. but I have cought a glimpse of MANY after they have zoomed by... my zegemtegnanet couldn't keep up with them

my only comment was why didn't they call it Awash? Awash kickes Abay's ass anytime of the day, doesn't it?


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yehonish dikimo! I found out about it while being in Addis. All you had to do was ask me to hand over to you the newspaper I had in my Blue Bag.



Really? no more mini Ato Zewdinehs(ATOZ) rolling around Addis?



Maybe they were afraid of a lawsuit from AIB?


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Holland Car plc expands assembly
By Addis Mulugeta

Holland Car plc has expanded its car assembly independently with out the involvement of the Dutch share company. Chinese Gona company technically assists the new model cars, Abay and Cassiopeia.
Engineer Tadessee Tessema explained that his company launched new models, Abay and Cassiopeia, but has not entirely abandoned to assemble Holland Car which it makes on order. Abay has safety features such as air bag and air conditioning, remote control, full power windows, hydraulic steering and 16 valves. He said that the spares are also cheap and the price lower than any other model car. Abay costs almost 150,000 birr and is guaranteed for one year. The company sells from 4-6 cars everyday.
Cassiopeia car plc is the second car assembly plant established in Ethiopia in January 2008, with the aim of assembling pickups, four wheelers, minibuses and light duty trucks. The total investment of the project is around 30,000,000 birr and will generate work for about 100 people.
He applauded that the company has plans to produce more than four thousand cars a year and a project to expand sales to the rest of Africa such as the likes of the Sudan, Senegal, Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique and Djibouti. He commented that each country expressed interest to work closely with their company. He added that the plan to expand to these countries is slow because local demand is very high.
Tadessee pointed out that an agreement with Holland Car terminated last year in July.

SourcE: Capital Ethiopia


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speaking of...

dude that owns the HOlland car stuff was one of the "25 Arif sewowch of the year" or minamin of Addis Neger, along with .mike


Ina, Awash and Naomi are coming...

Awash is dope-ER.


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Holland Car wins Best African Company Award


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