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No American cars or parts since the revolution.
Left one looks more premium
A friend of mine was in Cuba. He said the taxi sounded like it had a John Deere engine.
That old Pontiac probably has a Russian engine and other Russian parts as well. Cuban engineering and maintenance is very creative for the lack of stuff they had for the longest time.
Love Cuba
I visited Cuba in 2016 for my honeymoon and had a taxi driver say “you see that nice, white car over there?” and I was looking and looking… was a current model Kia sedan. He said it was $30k+ USD there, at least $5k premium above what they would cost state-side, and their average annual income is something like $3-4k.
In conclusion, Cuba is a land of contrasts.
You can thank oppressive sanctions from capitalism for that!
I asked my Cuban driver why there are so many old cars on the road, as there are numerous non-American car brands out there. He told me that this situation has little to do with the US embargo.
According to him, Cubans can buy new(ish) cars from only the government at ridiculously inflated prices (about triple what one would pay in the US). Thus, most people can only afford used cars – which they keep running for as long as they can.
If I were president I would fully reopen trade, travel and commerce between the US and Cuba
imagine having a 60+ years old pontiac with probably russian and knockoff parts in it and it looks still better than some new suv
They call em “Yank Tanks,” or so a Cuban taxi driver told me when I visited Havana and Veradero. He also claimed that Cuban mechanics are the best in the world to keep these old cars on the road despite not having access to new parts since 1959.
Dang we used to make really cool cars. Now it all looks like a bar of soap or a turtle.
I went to Russia a decade ago and they had three kinds of cars. Giant ex-soviet trucks made of wrought iron that could survive a direct nuclear strike and keep going. Ladas where the bodywork is rust held together by the paint. And luxury BMW / Porsches.
No regular hatchbacks or Toyota Yaris’ or Peugeot 206 or Mini or VW Beetle. No medium cost of cars, ancient pieces of crap or luxury cars.
Only have the chance to go there once so far.
This is not the oldest car I’ve seen driving around.
There used to be some early 20/30s models in Varadero and La Havana.
Their Camel public transportation are quite interesting too ^^
https://imgur.com/a/VL0R7Ws
A few from when I went last year
What’s the car on the right?
Those old cars are great when you have no new car parts to fix them with. They are simply and easy to MacGyver parts for to keep them running (relative to new cars that is).
Funny… If this photo were taken in America, I would have assumed the owner of the car on the left was the wealthy one.
I had my 20th birthday over there (coincidentally) and my boyfriend and his family hired a fleet of 50s Cadillacs for our trip to the restaurant! It was so cool to see such old cars in use!
My racist grandpa told me what PONTIAC stood for when I was 9.
Straight outta fast and furious
The car with the B license plate is a government owned car while the P plate is a particular or privately owned car. The classic American cars are usually being run with Toyota Hilux engines.
i say no to embargoes
Budapest in Hungary was much like that when I visited years ago. Modern Volvos cheek by jowl with ancient Ladas
and they’ll figure out how to exchange parts between the two when one breaks down!
I choose the left one any day
Yeah and that car probably has a GM engine, A Ford transmission and the rest of the car is Dodge. Cubans are extremely crafty.