Top 20 Best Bakkie Buys - Bakkies and Truck Action Magazine

To assist buyers in purchasing a workhorse from the wide variety of bakkies on the South African market , Bakkie’s Top Twenty goes some way in indicating the best-bang-for-your-buck buy. Not that it answers all your questions. However, it does indicate how bakkies rank against one another in four of the most basic parameters. Price, torque to weight ratio (how many Nm would be available to lug one tonne around), power to weight ratio (how many kW of power would be on tap to propel one tonne) and payload (what payload the bakkie was designed to carry).

Once ranked against all other bakkies, in each parameter, the total points apportioned to each bakkie are then computed as a total penalty against it. A bakkie that scores 85 points gains from its position in each discipline – say, 24th in price terms, 37th in torque to weight terms, 22nd for its power to weight abilities and 2nd in payload terms.

The Tata Xenon 2.2L XXL Dropside was positioned 4th with 153 points