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How to Avoid Disappointment After Buying a Used Car

  • March 19, 2014

How about you avoid a scenario where your used car’s performance disappoints long after buying it? It has happened to several buyers in the past, especially people who buy their cars online, because they cannot test-drive cars on the internet. It may happen to you too. Aside from the fact[...]

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Buying & Importing Cars

Avoid New Untested Cars – Go For Used Ones and Save Money

  • February 21, 2014

Driving a defective vehicle is one of the unpleasant experiences you would want to avoid at all costs. If you are planning to buy a car, you should avoid buying new untested cars. You can go for used, tested ones and save money. News of Car recall is not rare in the automobile industry. In[...]

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Buying & Importing Cars

Importing Used Heavy Machinery From Japan

  • February 3, 2014

A look at the BEFORWARD site will show you that used vehicle exports to Africa has now gone beyond cars. With a construction boom that will soon turn African cities into concrete jungles, we surely do need a lot of heavy machinery. Well, as usual, buying used machinery makes more[...]

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Buying & Importing Cars

Japanese Used Trucks That Rule the Roads of Africa

  • January 31, 2014

What will it take to drive Africa’s economy? Well, to answer this one literally, it will take the road. It is easier to develop road networks spanning every remote corner of Africa than it is to develop rail systems. That is why some countries like South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya and[...]

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Buying & Importing Cars

What to Look For In the Best Japanese Used Car Exporter

  • January 29, 2014

Gone are the days when customers of used automobiles depended entirely on classified ads published in newspapers for market information. A common scenario used to be: a customer could travel in person to Japan, undertake a physical search for the preferred model of a used car, make the purchase, arrange[...]

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Buying & Importing Cars

7 Toyota MPVs that Dominate the African Market

  • January 10, 2014

There is nothing humble about the Toyota multipurpose vans that we have in Africa. They are designed to make any owner proud. Its little wonder that African men love their Toyota more than they love their wives. Sad, inst it? But then, this is Africa! Toyota has fully penetrated the[...]

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Buying & Importing Cars

Why We Think Africa Will Be the Next Auto Market

  • January 6, 2014

Looking at Africa over the last 50 years, a lot has happened. The infrastructure has improved and now you can proudly drive on the smooth highways. Ok, we are not there yet, but we will soon be, by the way things are going. This is good news to major used[...]

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Buying & Importing Cars

How BeForward Japan Helps Keep Africa Mobile

  • December 30, 2013

Japan used cars are very popular in Africa, thanks to a long lasting legacy that this country has left in the continent of Africa. However, it is due to the painstaking efforts that used car exporters like Beforward have made that have sustained the great name, that many untrustworthy “car[...]

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Buying & Importing Cars

Regulations and Costs for Importing a car to Zimbabwe

  • November 20, 2013

Zimbabwe is a big consumer of imported cars from Japan and other places. Every year, more than 50,000 cars are imported. Because it is a landlocked country, vehicles imported have to be cleared through the Port of Durban in South Africa, Walvis Bay in Namibia or Dar es Salaam in[...]

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The Funniest Uses for Vehicles in Africa

  • October 7, 2013

It is in Africa that a tool will be tried for practically all jobs and tasks. If it doesn’t do well, the tool simply is ‘substandard’ and doesn’t meet the expectations. This line of thought is not only applied to simple tools. It cuts across all type of machinery and[...]

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