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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Reminds me of a former neighbour who passed away 2 and half years ago. He said he was a former MI6 spy for the UK. He had a lot of stories. Anyway I bought a used Genesis sedan home over 3 years ago and when I showed it to him he said good trunk...you can fit some bodies in it.
Thousands of cars that crash in US are ending up in Russia
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Thousands of cars that are stolen in US are ending up in Russia
FIFY
Yes, it’s an important thing to look at when buying a car. You will never regret having an oversized trunk even if you never use it to capacity.
You will instantly and always regret having a small trunk the first time you load it up with whatever.
I love my Fusion, but the trunk is on the smaller side. Hence the Impala.
Yesterday I went up to my sister’s cottage with another neighbour to have Canadian Thanksgiving dinner. We spent most of the day up there and the neighbour suddenly decided to salvage a whole bunch of flowers and plants and thus filled my trunk with them. No bodies were in there to impede that so they are all in there and will be removed shortly. I don’t often fill it up but on occasion it happens and yeah it’s very handy. I think that is a very big reason for the rise of SUVs in recent times. Their haulage ability.
Yes
“it may be economical to fix where labor rates are cheaper.”
And the fix doesn’t have to be as thorough and beautiful.
“The biggest part costs are airbags and computers.”
...and now also ADAS systems. All the sensors are questionable, at minimum they require recalibration and validation. Removing them is time consuming.
The vehicles may be safer - but they’re so technologically fragile. Fixing anything almost ‘totals’ the car.
That’s especially true in countries like Georgia or Russia where labor is not nearly as expensive. Buy a bunch of totalled cars, canibilize some them for parts and employ a bunch of mechanics and viola! You’ve got good cars that now work and have plenty of life left in them. You were probably able to pick up the wrecked cars for pennies on the dollar.
Yugos’-—?
Have you priced older VW Bugs?
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It’s like I keep crunching my
2019 Titanic !
No, haven’t. When my best friend had a VW I had a Renault Dauphine in 1964. My taste was questionable.
Rubles For Clunkers
But the radio still works.
——Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/y1i6bVxl_XA
One of our neighbors in New Mexico had a Yugo parked on the street. It never moved and literally had weeds growing around it.
This was 30 years ago, too.
Love it!!
In a Yugo…I miss Rush.
“You will instantly and always regret having a small trunk the first time you load it up with whatever.”
And THAT is why a “Box on Wheels” is your best choice.
Like an old Econoline.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OBSo3G8LCg
What’s your problem? Just say it.
>> in size to more than 40 football pitches
that ever nagging curiosity — the size of a football pitch
V Dubs’ were Fun especially Bajas!
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Dauphines’ takes me back...
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