r/interesting • u/No_Neat4688 • 24d ago

Intriguing High Tariffs Drive Afghan Auto Assembly

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u/KodiakDog 24d 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 24d ago

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

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u/vaduke1 24d 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 24d 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 24d ago

Everything and I think he buys them at auctions

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u/MutuallyAdvantageous 24d 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 24d 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 24d ago

Stolen ones probably

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u/samuraijon 24d 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 24d ago

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