{"id":14842,"date":"2019-08-26T19:45:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T07:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/?p=14842"},"modified":"2022-05-01T19:55:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T07:55:17","slug":"awash-with-exotic-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/like\/awash-with-exotic-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"AWASH WITH EXOTIC CARS"},"content":{"rendered":"

COOL RIDES<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n
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Once in a while a really cool looking ride cruises by and I do my best to get a photo of it. New Zealand is not exactly awash with exotic cars. We are a right hand drive country, like England, Australia, India, South Africa and Japan, and most cars in NZ are Japanese. (Approx 34% of the world\u2019s cars are right hand drive, but I\u2019m not sure most people in America realise that)<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/basementgeographer.com\/right-hand-traffic-versus-left-hand-traffic\/<\/a><\/p>\n

There is no car industry to protect in NZ, so there is open importing of used Japanese cars. This works brilliantly, because Japan has regulations to encourage the export of all their car fleet when they reach five years old, which means that we get to buy all their mint condition five year old used cars dirt cheap. And that is why cars are cheaper here than in Australia.<\/p>\n

When I\u2019m on the look out for cars to take photos of, I\u2019m usually more interested in the non Japanese ones because they are fairly rare. There are some flash European cars here, and even a few Aussie classics, but it\u2019s the American ones that seem really rare and exotic. Especially if the steering wheel is on the wrong side.<\/p>\n

Because they are not made by Subaru or Nissan I usually have no idea what they are, but if they sound grunty and look like a pimping ride, I get snapping. Here are a few cars I\u2019ve noticed round the hood.<\/p>\n

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And now for some English class<\/p>\n

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For something totally different, here is a gratuitous shot of some German bling cruising downtown<\/p>\n

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COOL RIDES Once in a while a really cool looking ride cruises by and I do my best to get a photo of it. New Zealand is not exactly awash with exotic cars. We are a right hand drive country, like England, Australia, India, South Africa and Japan, and most cars in NZ are Japanese. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[33,66],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/52kokyfvD831NZXpwt2HbNo8w9tqA7wNGW.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11278,"url":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/steemit\/does-anyone-still-ride-motorbikes\/","url_meta":{"origin":14842,"position":0},"title":"DOES ANYONE STILL RIDE MOTORBIKES?","date":"June 24, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"DOES ANYONE STILL RIDE MOTORBIKES? 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