We often see cars in the USA with 200,300k or more miles. Is that kind of milage common in other countries?
Do people in other countries have high milage cars?
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I bet in Cuba it's pretty common.,,,
Visit places in Africa. Cars are driven there that would have been junked here decades ago. And Cuba is just an island. Not many miles to drive.
SO TRUE! They had to push the Russian Jeep thing pulling Castro's coffin as it broke down a short way into the parade.
Same with South America and Mexico. Mexico is especially cool because they have a lot of cars we got here, I saw several Fairmonts, Celebrities, Citations and other oddball cars that got junked here years ago. Nothing rusts and labor to repair is cheap.
I don’t really remember seeing a lot of high mileage or older vehicles while overseas…. But to be fair I was always on duty or drunk so my memory is kinda fuzzy.
You see high mileage vehicles in most countries. In many, after things like VAT, vehicles are very costly, so people tend to keep them. In Georgia, it was common to see Fiat 124 version Ladas still running around out in the countryside while in Tbilisi, used imports from the States and Canada were common and were often 100K miles cars shipped in. Some of these are surprisingly cheap in the country. Check for Prius prices in Georgia. Much less than they would be here and the Prius is the usual ride with Bolt, their version of Uber or Lyft.
To be honest I did not see alot of old cars in South America.And I visited many countries on both sides of the continent. What I did see were many smaller Chinese pickups of at least three different brands.
Yep-in Utah safety inspections were done away with and now you see so many unsafe vehicles on the road. Not a high average income here-and now with decent tires costing a better part of $1,000.00/set drivers push tires until they "pop" practically.
America....
Vehicles can be fairly new and be “ unsafe “…
Like you said due to very bad tires, brakes, lights out…
But the biggest reason by far vehicles are “ unsafe” is due to the world champions that are behind the wheel of those beasts…
I have seen many older vehicles that are well taken care of and run well with no issues.
With some of the things happening recently....I'm not as 'proud' as I used to be.
I think I read that Japan also has laws against older vehicles. That's probably has something to do with the availability of low mileage JDM engines here.
Absolutely untrue. As long as it can pass inspection you can have a car any age, the tax on old cars may be higher but there is nothing limiting the age. A friend of mine has a beautiful 1958 MB 220 S Ponton convertible that he drives occasionally, it passes inspection with no problem and does not have old timer H plates although it could.
Pretty sure Thailand and Laos has high mileage vehicles. It’s been 5 years so don’t remember what some of the taxis had.
Usually in poor countries they just keep fixing cars no what happens. Kind of like the axe story.
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me neither
Right, laws might have been a stretch, tax is better for sure as a description
3rd world countries import 1st world vehicles and will run them into the ground; cars can go surprisingly far with shadetree mechanics.
