07/12/2024
Cars of Saudi Arabia (West Region)
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Their love for asian sedans and ✨️Camrys✨️. You can say about 80% of the cars that roam around the cities are sedans, particularly Toyota and Hyundai. You would think being a country that has alot of desert plains, locals would prefer SUVs and 4x4s, but long empty highways mean these sedans make better cruisers. And why Toyota and Hyundai? With the way they drive here, they would NEED reliable brands-
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Banged up beaters. Drive around the country and you can bet, almost every single car is dented one way or another. Almost normalized even. The way the locals drive plays a role.
In this part of the country, anything goes. Road lines are optional, and indicators are only when you're exiting right from the left most lane at the last 200m. Here, where there's a will, there's a way, as long as there's a small gap, they check their mirrors, tap the horn and squeeze in. One of our taxi drivers even honked at an half-way exiting bus because he feels he has the right of way, avoiding it by a hairline. If they bang into eachother, which they do alot, they'll get into a small quarrel and move on with their day. But despite the way the car looks on the outside, all of the private taxis I've been in have working cold air-conditioning and drives relatively smooth, so props to that.
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Displacement disparity. As much as they make use of small engined economical cars, they also love massive big powered ones. One of a few places where you can see a rather mini-sized 1.5L Veloz next to a gigantic 6.2L V8 GMC
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Aside from the American cars, the automotive market here is rather similar to Malaysia or the greater Asia Pacific. Models from Toyota, Honda, Kia, Mitsubishi, Hyundai, Chery, Geely, Haval, all are what you would find in Malaysia. I just wish Malaysia would bring in more specs rather than one variant per model.
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Last but not least, Hilux, yes.