Back to basics: making a car for Africa

The Mobius II is a Kenyan built car by Mobius, a company located along Mombasa road at Sameer Business Park. Photos Courtesy

On the edge of Kenya’s capital, two doors down from a gleaming display of Germany’s luxury Porsche cars, another showroom offers Africa’s answer to the continent’s potholed roads.

It’s called the Mobius. It has no flashy dials, alloy wheels or electric windows. In fact it has no windows at all except for the front windshield.
Instead, the square car-cum-pickup with its aluminium panels has been stripped of extras to make it sturdy and cheap.