2021 Toyota Agya

Toyota Agya

Toyota's Agya slips into the city-car ring with a familiar badge and a no-nonsense approach—short wheelbase, feather-light steering, and a 1.0-litre petrol engine that doesn’t pretend to be anything else. You get a choice between manual and auto, which matters for Joburg’s daily crawl or Cape Town’s unpredictable stop-start traffic. On paper at least, the Agya should be everywhere, but the used market tells another story: just three active listings, all between R149,950 and R179,950. That’s a whisper, not a roar, and you can see why — the Agya never really broke through in big numbers locally. The models floating around are from 2021 or 2022, and that’s it. Those listings are easy to pick apart: one manual at R149,950, two automatics at R179,950, and mileage that’ll make you look twice—an average of 132,140 km. That’s proper taxi territory, so history and service stamps matter more than ever at this price. What the Agya trades on is that Toyota badge; for buyers on a tight budget, that’s the point, because you buy into a reputation for low-friction, predictable running. There’s no new stock to even consider, so it’s all about what’s out there pre-owned. If you pack smart and find one with a clean bill of health, R149k is a tough price to beat for turn-key city transport.