Posted on 10/15/2024 9:18:54 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
The small South Caucasus nation of Georgia has become a multi-billion dollar hub for the international used car market. The vehicles are mostly sourced from the US, and many appear to be ending up in Russia.
Equivalent in size to more than 40 football pitches, it hosts thousands of vehicles up for sale.
He says that his company has responded to “a lot of demand for Western-produced vehicles”. Today the firm has 600 employees.
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Same price, you decide?
Suppose I should hang onto
My SuperDuty.
Maybe that’s what we should do to members of Congre$$ that are wrecked beyond repair.
Sanctions create all sorts of market oddities but we all know that you are incapable of comprehending that fact.
Back in the day of the Russian fishing fleet they would buy old rust buckets and bring them back to Russia ,LOL
Just because a car is in a crash doesn’t necessarily mean it’s junk or totaled. American throw away much to much stuff that can be fixed or repaired, insurance companies total out cars that should be fixed and government regulations are making it so cars are far too complex to be easily fixed or repaired...too much waste.
““In the US rebuilding of a car, and making it legal again, takes six months and let’s say $5,000. It takes $1,000 and one month in Georgia to fix the same car.””
All my cars that I have driven were X titles purchased from Co-Part which is an auction liquidator of cars, mostly insurance owned or bank repos.
Currently driving a Ford Fusion hybrid that was a roll over and picked up for $400. Platinum package, leather interior. The biggest part costs are airbags and computers.
Russians in the game explain why auction prices have been shooting up the last few years. I’m shopping for a 2018-20 Chevrolet Impala with the 6 cyl engine for my next ride. The are incredibly roomy, like a Tardis, they are bigger on the inside. You could easily put 6-8 bodies in the trunk.
Hubs is a mechanic and we run our own repair business with 4 mechanics.
He picked up a complete 1959 Ford Tudor from a farmer for $200 and he still had the original title! Plan to restore it to take grandkids for ice cream and do our small town parades.
I sold my motorcycle a few years back and dude straight up told me it was going to Russia.
I expect this is mostly European vehicles given shipping costs. Many years ago when I worked in automotive, I learned the following: At the time 15 million cars & trucks were sold each year in the US. 10 million were scrapped out or otherwise disposed of each year. The total number of vehicles was growing in the US by 2 million/year. That left 3 million vehicles/year, which were overwhelmingly going south of the border.
Also they don't have to meet EPA or DOT specs in the repair to pass an inspection.
Cars that crash is the US used to end up in ARKANSAS. They would be shipped to scrappers in Missouri who would take two or three, make an auto that ran, then run it down into Arkansas to be sold as an “abandoned vehicle” You could get a new title showing it had never been wrecked.
No guarantee it would last driving it off the lot. I always wondered why Dad never could get a good car there.
It was an old Arkansas scam that a working companion told me about it in the 1990.
You can still get a Yugo if you give up the SuperDuty.
Outdated figure:
In the United States, a total of 408 Yugos are still in service as of 2021.
Cars and Bids website showed 3 used Yugos sold recently for $3,400, $4,750 and $6,100.
Used cars sold in Northern Arkansas were mostly totaled autos rebuilt in Missouri. Total junk. You could get a nice clean title for a few bucks showing it had never been wrecked.
We can start with the squad.
Ain't it the truth! Top Gear recently did a special called "Sand Job" where they visited Nouakchott, Mauritania. The cars cheerfully driving around in that busy city were beyond trashed out belief.
A book about what to look for in used cars said “Did you ever wonder what happens to those cars shown in scenes of flooded roads and yards after storms in the southern states? They get shipped to the northern states and sold.”
Said to watch for the water and silt lines on them.
I really liked this article — kinda heartwarming. I learned something I definitely didn’t know, and it was an FYI-opener.
Those were some of the best commercials.
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