An observation from my recent holiday to Turkey - Stolen cars?

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Just got back from a lovely 11 day break in Alanya, Antalya Provence, Turkey.

Noticed quite a few interesting cars whilst exploring, Ferraris, Porsches, a Bugatti Chiron (!) even a LHD Sierra Cosworth!

The thing that stood out the most as the number of RHD Land Rover Discoveries and Range Rovers all wearing Turkish plates...

Now why would this be I ask myself? - in a country where everything is LHD, why would there be a noticeable number of RHD JLR products running around there on Turkish plates?

I know JLR products are supposedly easy to steal, have I discovered where they perhaps end up?
 
Wouldn't suprise me. It's gone in 6 seconds with those.

It's quite well known that many ended up in Eastern Europe and Russia. So are probably around Turkey as well.
 
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Does happen a lot - but the second hand market in Europe (and periphery) tends to be much more expensive than in the UK - in some cases it is worth people buying them to sell in Europe, especially stuff like RRs. Even RHD cars.
 
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Zefan said:
My money would be that it's somehow related to Turkey's link to Cyprus, where they drive on the left.
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I can see that although why would the RHD vehicles I've seen all be JLR products, whilst in my own admittedly unscientific survey, I didn't see an RHD car of any other brand?
 
Went to Antalya in August. Didn't notice any such common place Land Rovers or luxury cars and I drove myself one day as well. The roads were pretty hostile in rush hour I found.
 
jaybee said:
Went to Antalya in August. Didn't notice any such common place Land Rovers or luxury cars and I drove myself one day as well. The roads were pretty hostile in rush hour I found.
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I'm just one of these weirdo's who when on holiday tends to clock the cars around me rather than the historic scenery or whatever I suppose...

Drives my other half mad, then again I prefer it to browsing fake handbags and trainers... :D
 
Wasn't there some European politician who was found to be driving around in a stolen UK registered car? Can't find the story now.

There is this from a year ago:

Don't even need a relay etc anymore. They are now hacking the cars directly with a laptop. It shouldn't even be possible to do that, but that's how pathetic the security is.
 
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