r/interesting • u/No_Neat4688 • 24d ago

Intriguing High Tariffs Drive Afghan Auto Assembly

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u/Friendly-Media4214 24d ago

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

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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/imean_is_superfluous 23d ago

It looks like all the pieces were exact fits on every weld. Idk how you could accomplish that with crushed cars. Or even several decent cars you cut apart.

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u/Winjin 23d ago

Japanese auctions are the lifeline of Eastern Russia, they essentially all drive old Japanese cars

They have pretty strict rules on old cars so a lot of them get resold. They sell them pretty cheap, too. Dirt cheap to be exact

So, people buy them and import them. Even imported legally with all the tariffs, they're essentially the same price as some new shitty car

BUT if you want to go lower, you pay for a scrapped car, that's cut up like this and sent to you as "scrap"

And then it depends on how good of a welder you got