Bolivia is awash with contraband cars from Japan
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Bolivia is awash with contraband cars from Japan
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#2I wonder if they have JDM meetups in there
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#4I thought Bolivia drives on the right? It doesn't make sense to have right hand drive cars on the roads in a country that drives on the right?
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#5I thought Bolivia drives on the right? It doesn't make sense to have right hand drive cars on the roads in a country that drives on the right?
Answered in the article
> Mechanics fix suspension wrecked by the drive over the mountains from Chile; others move steering wheels from right to left.
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#6The irony is that Bolivia is a hotspot for lithium production. I love the diconnect. A country to poor to effectively control the import of illegal used cars, where cops can be bought off for 100$, is producting lithium for electric vehicles sold in the richest.
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#7I wanted to listen to some of that "chutocumbia" but Youtube has nothing and searching for it only returns the article itself.
I imagine it as some Miami Bass hybrid with Pan Flute leads and rapped blues lyrics.
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#8I thought Bolivia drives on the right? It doesn't make sense to have right hand drive cars on the roads in a country that drives on the right?
Since they're affordable and you can still use them as cars on the road, it makes "sense". Just the little issues like extra difficulty when overtaking.
The further east you go in Russia the more you see RHD Japanese second hand cars.
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#9This is a good example where import controls are obviously silly. Is Bolivia (pop 11M) going to have a domestic car industry? Does it make any sense to ship the raw materials for building a car 4000 meters up in the Andes instead of just shipping the car?
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#10I wanted to listen to some of that "chutocumbia" but Youtube has nothing and searching for it only returns the article itself. I imagine it as some Miami Bass hybrid with Pan Flute leads and rapped blues lyrics.
You might have better luck searching for “cumbia chutero”.
> I imagine it as some Miami Bass hybrid with Pan Flute leads and rapped blues lyrics.
It’s mostly cumbia with chutero-related lyrics, similar to Mexican narcocorridos.