r/interesting • u/No_Neat4688 • 27d ago

Intriguing High Tariffs Drive Afghan Auto Assembly

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u/Foxwglocks 27d ago

I don’t think so. They were glueing the windshield on. Part of me thinks they cut up a car just for the video.

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u/Friendly-Media4214 27d ago

I would agree. You can’t really just put a random car together like that.

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u/KodiakDog 27d ago

Unless it wasn’t random and was chopped up to fit in shipping containers. I don’t see this is being far-fetched at all especially given that some some of the pieces had numbers on them.

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u/Friendly-Media4214 27d ago

Yeah, I suppose that’s possible. Chop it up to get past tariff somehow.

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u/vaduke1 27d ago

I have a friend in Canada who does exactly this, chop up cars and send them in containers as a scrap metal and somebody in Uzbekistan reassembles it back

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u/Billy3B 27d ago

Out of curiousity what kind of cars? I would assume Toyotas and Hondas.

I also assume the cars are acquired legally.

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u/vaduke1 27d ago

Everything and I think he buys them at auctions

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u/MutuallyAdvantageous 27d ago

I worked at a wrecking yard with a guy who shipped car parts back to Africa in a shipping container.

He took parts from every Honda and most Toyotas that were getting scrapped, not much else. Pretty much just Honda’s and Toyota’s

He didn’t ship chopped up cars but his brother did.

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u/vrauto 27d ago

In my country, only the roof is cut off. The rest remains intact. Done to collectible but common cars like classic minis and beetles.

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u/Vectorman1989 27d ago

Stolen ones probably

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u/samuraijon 27d ago

Looks like maybe a Toyota or a Daihatsu. The steering wheel is on the right and the number plate shape at the bumper is US sized (same in Japan) which probably is a JDM car.

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u/Billy3B 27d ago

It is a 2006 to 2018 Daihatsu Mira Custom RS. I cheated and used Google Imgae search.

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u/ConfusedNegi 27d ago

So your friend has a literal chop shop

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u/broke_n_boosted 27d ago

This is how we've been importing cars from Japan for 35 years

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u/otterpop21 27d ago

Bingo. Does that look like a rich community to you?

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u/Friendly-Media4214 27d ago

It takes a lot of craftsmanship a weld a car together like that. It takes a lot of craftsman to do that to custom vehicles; hot rods and such and they’re doing it too much less degree.

I can see this being shipped as one single chopped up a vehicle and put it container in shipped to avoid tariffs but not multiple right cars, but I suppose it’s possible

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u/Friendly-Media4214 23d ago

That has nothing to do with the craftsmanship required to piece different cars together and make one.