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Originally Posted by JSH
On the original topic - a car is a durable good. As long as it has value it will get passed down from owner to owner and be used. Then when it has no value in one country it gets passed down to another. (Southeast Europe is full of old cars from Western Europe. Asia is full of cars from Japan, Latin America is full of cars from the USA)
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Paraguay and many other Latin American countries are full of old JDM cars, even though the cost of switching from RHD to LHD is not negligible at all. Sure there are other countries in Latin America where RHD is the standard, such as Jamaica and Suriname, which renders it even easier for second-hand JDM cars to be sold there.
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I do support the relatively recent moves to ban old cars for major cities. Old cars are massively more polluting than new cars and cities all over the world have major smog problems.
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I'd much rather look at engine swaps and eventually some upgrades to the stock engine whenever possible, instead of a ban.
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I have this dilemma with my old motorcycles. I have a 1976 and 1979 Kawasaki KZ400. They basically have no emission control systems and even when they are in good tune you can smell the unburned fuel behind them. I can't in good conscience commute to work on a vehicle that is putting out the pollution of 100 cars.
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I'd still rather consider some upgrades, or to rebuild a newer and fewer-polluting modern motorcycle with components of an older one for the classic looks. Not sure if you have ever seen anything about Bendita Macchina, a custom motorcycles shop that does it in Brazil.