Joint venture on road to success in minibus market

Beijing company is banking on new plant to upstage Toyota in SouthAfrica, report Xing Zhigang and Li Jiabao from Johannesburg

It's not often that one finds a new entrant stealing the thunder of an established global company in a mature marketplace like South Africa.

But one Chinese automotive company looks set to zoom past the market leader, Toyota Motor Corp, in the fast-growing South African minibus market.