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[Akagi]

Nothing new there then eh.

Oh.

I see.

 

[Sankari]

I went to Cuba in 2013, very interesting place.

We got a taxi to the next town and what turned up was a Lada Riva that the owner had chopped the roof off then welded a bar between the rear seats. It had no structural rigidity at all and could feel the whole car bend as we went round a corner.

Only got one rubbish picture

Does Cuba not have any safety standards, or does the government simply not care enough to enforce them? Who decides what's roadworthy over there?

 

[Nasher]

Seeing as they force everyone to drive around in really old cars, it would be a bit difficult to enforce safety standards

 

[geekman]

Does Cuba not have any safety standards, or does the government simply not care enough to enforce them? Who decides what's roadworthy over there?

Most countries in Latin America don’t have any safety standards to speak of: where I live you can drive around in whatever you want and believe me, people do MOTs don’t exist here and police are far more interested in stopping people in “nice” cars than old wrecks, as they know they won’t get any money out of the people driving the unroadworthy cars.

 

[almoststew1990]

meanwhile in the UK I saw half a Lancia Fulvia...

And all of a Toyota Century (I think?)

 

[Diddums]

Don't think it's a Century, Cressida perhaps?

 

[Diddums]

Ah, Crown.

 

[Frozennova]

Century is an easy one to distinguish, the still had actual wing mirrors up until a few years ago

 

[mrk]

Don't see the MC Stradale much on the roads, let alone the drop top variant.

 

[Dis86]

Sure it's a Stradale? I didn't think they released the GC version of those. I thought the GC was only the MC.

That sentence and yet it makes sense.

 

[mrk]

Oops yes the cabrio is the MC, the coupé also has an MC and the Stradale was the previous hardcore version. The MC was the later naming scheme and had the same power as the Stradale along with the same exhaust set-up and atuff.

I blame the confusion on their naming structure!

 

[Akagi]

Its a rag-top Maserati which looks quite nice, lets just leave it there cos my head hurts

 

[mrk]

Do you want to know the different gearboxes versions and the naming vs performance of them? They're just as annoying

 

[Akagi]

No.

 

[Dis86]

I think I do!

 

[Diddums]

It's a Maserati. Ferrari running costs for crap build quality and 911 performance at most. Horrible things, how that company is still going is beyond me.

 

[daz]

The Gran Turismo is a really practical car for how 'exotic' it looks and sounds.

 

[Nasher]

While it works

 

[ShivP]

It's a Maserati. Ferrari running costs for crap build quality and 911 performance at most. Horrible things, how that company is still going is beyond me.

GT probably one of the best sounding cars ever, look great, more rear space than a rapide. The ghibli seems to be selling OK as well with the 3.0 diesel proving reliable (fiat unit?). No recalls on it either unlike a certain BMW

 

[MeAnBoY]

@almoststew1990 that's indeed a Crown, more than likely LPG converted as it's a Hong Kong inner city taxi (new territory ones are a horrible green)

Where did you spot it?