Mister Japanese Car Manufacturer Man has done a good job promoting his solid but affordable vehicles in this region of the world. Rich folk drive their Mercedes into the thousands of potholes everywhere, but the average local African drives a Toyota Corolla, risks his life in a Toyota Hi-Ace minibus or hitches a ride on the back of a Mitsubishi Fuso or Isuzu truck, while NGO expats feel safe in their white 4x4 Toyota Landcruisers. That’s the whole picture, no Fiat, no Audi, no Skoda, no Mazda, no Ford.
Somewhere here in the wildernis, a Toyota Corolla must have mated with a Toyota Carina… the result: a Toyota Corona. I have already been able to spot it on a couple of occassions. Nature is a wonderful thing. It will be only a matter of some tens of thousands of before its DNA will have mutated in such a way* that there will be a flock of colourful new species of the Toyota genus. Darwin at its best!
* T. Goldschmidt, F. Witte (1992). Explosive speciation and adaptive radiation of haplochromine cichlids from Lake Victoria: an illustration of the scientific value of a lost species flock. Mitt.Int. Verein.Limnol. 23:101-107. (db: a highly commendable literary approach to the same story is: Tijs Goldschmidt, Darwins Dreampond (The MIT Press, 1996))
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