Bolivia Announces Car Import Ban

Associated Press ^ | Dec. 18, 2008 | Unknown

[decimon]

Japan's cheap hand-me-down cars have flooded Bolivia's narrow streets, where empty cabs honk pleadingly for fares and lines at gas stations often stretch down the block.

Now President Evo Morales has announced a ban on all imports of cars more than five years old, hoping to call time-out on an automotive binge that has given South America's poorest country a crash course in the joy, pain and traffic of car culture.

[ScreamingFist]

The cheaper, more durable vehicles have spawned a cutthroat public transport market now gobbling up streets once ruled by stately Dodge buses and a handful of private new cars for the rich.

The author is a commie moron....any other questions?

[decimon]

The author is a commie moron....any other questions?

Considering your meaningless response to the unasked question...no.

[editor-surveyor]

Mexico is about to do the same.

[muawiyah]

There's this guy I know who takes over payments on repoed large SUVs then exports them to Bolivia for a profit.

For a variety of reasons no one ever thought to send such vehicles to that country yet they are perfectly pre-adapted to local conditions.

I don't think he ever sent anything there five or more years old ~ most of them look pretty new.

[ScreamingFist]

Considering your meaningless response to the unasked question...no.

Enlighten me.....wise one.

[VOA]

Bolivia Announces Car Import Ban

Until the ruling F---ers get a really good deal on a shipment
of Hummers, Ferraris, Porsches and even some Suburbans/Denalis
STOLEN off the streets of the USA!!!!!

[decimon]

Enlighten me.....wise one.

There is nothing in the article to indicate the author is a commie or a moron. It's a news article and one I thought amusing.

[pnh102]

Typical commie. Evo Morones is going to make life for everyone else worse just to enrich the state.

[decimon]

...STOLEN off the streets of the USA!!!!!

Yeah, that happens. But I think the more affluent people make the market for those cars.

[decimon]

Typical commie. Evo Morones is going to make life for everyone else worse just to enrich the state.

Morales is either communist or just another caudillo using whatever works.

[ScreamingFist]

There is nothing in the article to indicate the author is a commie or a moron. It's a news article and one I thought amusing

"Now President Evo Morales has announced a ban on all imports of cars more than five years old, hoping to call time-out on an automotive binge that has given South America's poorest country a crash course in the joy, pain and traffic of car culture."

Yes, sound like good capitalists, or commies. Take you pick. And I find nothing "amusing" about the article.....the Gov has told the peasants they can't buy cheap, well made cars from Japan. Cars are for the rich.....

[PAR35]

There's this guy I know who takes over payments on repoed large SUVs then exports them to Bolivia for a profit.

If he's exporting them before they're paid off, he might be needing a good lawyer.

[muawiyah]

It’s a legitimate deal. The leinholder gets paid.

[Seven plus One]

There is nothing in the article to indicate the author is a commie or a moron. It's a news article and one I thought amusing.

I'll bet they just don't have room for all the cars.

[Question_Assumptions]

The reason why there are so many cheap Japanese used cars more than 5 years old is that the Japanese require a very expensive inspection every 2 years called "shaken" that gets increasingly more expensive to pass as a car gets older, to the point that paying the shaken fees cost more than the car is worth and people buy new cars.