The Ten Most Expensive Places To Buy A Car
(Jalopnik) – Some of you think Americans have it bad when it comes to buying a car. With low car prices, cheap gas and a great road network, I say you’re one of the lucky ones. Don’t believe me? Just check out how much it costs to buy a Prius or FR-S in one of these countries.
10) Cuba
Price of a new Scion FR-S: LOL!P
Technically, you can buy or sell cars in Cuba since the market was “liberated” in 2011, but with prices sky high and low incomes all around, business is slow.P
Masterofgoingfaster is a local:P
A 70s lada is about 12K USD in Cuba, it’s quite interesting to see how values change depending on what you can get out of the car and when reliability is so important. I know this because I was born there and went this summer for about 10 days to visit the fam.P
Suggested By: Spiegel, Jalopnik’s Pariah., Photo Credit: kooklanekookla
9) North Korea
Kim Jong-un must really like you to get a car, and you better keep it that way, because it’s not only your ride that’s always on the edge.
bobrayner explains:
North Korea! If you’re really, really lucky and reach a good position in the party hierarchy you might be able to get something like this:
That’s not a real Merc. It’s the glorious Pyongyang 4.10, from a factory that used to make GAZ-51 clones (a prewar Soviet light truck). They might share the same engine, so there may well be some running on the same wood-gas conversion that’s popular in North Korean trucks because supplies of conventional fuel are patchy. Build quality is abysmal, but it’s better than trying to buy some old imported Volga since nobody’s been able to import spare parts in the last twenty years.
Most people can’t actually buy a car. And the car market is pretty much subject to government whims – good luck with fuel rationing and travel permits. One day Kim Jong-Il got so irritated by having to wait behind a Japanese car (in what must be the only traffic congestion ever experienced in the gloriously smooth-running republic) that heordered all Japanese cars confiscated.
I want a Pyongyang 4.10 2.5 Evo 2, now!
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