This is Part 6 of our Dacia Duster adventure through 10 countries and 9000 km around the Black Sea, you can read Part 1: Transnistria here, Part 2: Chernobyl here, Part 3: Belarus here, Part 4: Crossing the Black Sea and Georgia here and Part 5: Azerbaijan here. As a reminder this Test Drive happened before COVID-19…
The Toyota Corolla could be the best-seller in Georgia in 2014. Today we get a more detailed insight into the car parc of Georgia, an ex-USSR state located in Caucasus with Russia to the north, Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan to the south and the Black Sea to the west. Thanks…
FAW V5 and UAZ Bukhanka * See the Full Photo Report by clicking on the title! * This is Part 9 of my Trans-Siberian Photo Report. You can see all other Parts of this long-term Photo Report here. This time we are doing a tiny little hop 80 km South…
Honda Airwave This is Part 8 of my Trans-Siberian Photo Report. You can see all other Parts of this long-term Photo Report here. We are now moving 855km East to Irkutsk, which is 80 km off Lake Baikal. And here again a fascinating car landscape awaits… From roughly 30% of…
The Toyota Ist is by far the most popular used Japanese import in Krasnoyarsk. This is Part 7 of my Trans-Siberian Photo Report. You can see all other Parts of this long-term Photo Report here. We are now moving 450km East to Krasnoyarsk in the midst of Siberia. And this…
GAZ logo This is Part 6 of my Trans-Siberian Photo Report. You can see all other Parts of this long-term Photo Report here. We are moving 940km North East of Omsk to… Tomsk (hard to not confuse the two but I will do my best). And I am happy to…
The Toyota Probox is the most popular used Japanese import in Omsk. This is Part 5 of my Trans-Siberian Photo Report. You can see all other Parts of this Long Term Photo Report here. We are now travelling almost 1000 km South East of Yekaterinburg to Omsk, the start of…
The Opel Astra is extremely popular in Yekaterinburg. This is part 4 of my Trans-Siberian Photo Report. You can see all Parts of this long-term Photo Report here. We are now travelling a further 940 km East to Yekaterinburg, where the car landscape is once again very different from the…
Lada Samara in Kazan, Tatarstan Russia - September 2013 This is part 3 of a Trans-Siberian Photo Report. You can see all other Parts of this long-term Photo Report here. We are now off to Kazan, 800 km East of Moscow in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. Now that Russia’s…
The new generation Range Rover is already everywhere in Moscow! This is part 2 of my Trans-Siberian Photo Report. You can see all other Parts of this long-term Photo Report here. We are now travelling 700 km South-East to Moscow, the capital of Russia and home to 11.5 million inhabitants.…
Lada Zhiguli * See the Full Photo Report and my estimated Top 10 models by clicking on the title! * Over the last couple of weeks I have been backpacking my way along the Trans-Siberian railway, hopping on and off the train and discovering very different car landscapes along the…
Follow the Russian route in my Trans-Siberian trip on the map (click to enlarge)... (Mongolian map below) This post lists all Trans-Siberian Railway Photo Reports as they get published. Be sure to check it often so you don't miss any! 1. Russia Part 1: St Petersburg, Russia (published 28 September…
Tajik musicians, Lada Zhiguli and Daewoo Nexia. Picture by marusia, all rights reserved. After Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan, it's time to dust off another Central Asian car market: Tajikistan, the country in the region with the lowest car ownership rate at 35 per 1,000 inhabitants. The vehicle landscape in capital city Dushanbe has radically changed…
The Toyota Avalon has been popular in Turkmenistan since its original launch in 1995. We continue on our exploration of Central Asian markets: after Armenia, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan we find ourselves in Turkmenistan. And judging by the most recent videos of the streets of the capital Ashgabat, one thing is…
The Lada 1200/2105 is the best-selling vehicle in Finland over the period. * See the Top 50 All-brands and models by clicking on the title * The Finnish new car market edges up 1.7% year-on-year in 1981 to 104.957 registrations. Datsun remains the best-selling carmaker in the country for the…