Local assembler to hit Kenyan roads with sleeker model

Mobius old model. The firm says it will the new model next year with better features. [PHOTO: JOHN LAWRENCE/STANDARD]

When Joel Jackson opened a shop in Nairobi in 2010 with a promise of making a car in Kenya from scratch, not many people gave him much thought.

His idea of a no-frills SUV customised for the Kenyan, and generally African, terrain was welcome, but many had reservations, considering the failures that Kenya has had in building its own brand of vehicles.