Dude is living a dream. Congrats!

Kimochi:ifyouknow:

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Dude wtf you can't leave us hanging like that.

Did you re drill? Isn't beetle 5x130?

Adapters! Theyre way too different for redrill lol

Did they ever fix the S2000's weak differential?

Little Bird told me the new car was getting delivered in May.

I can't wait to crash this one.

I've owned like 4 of these Chrysler minivans now... they are fucking indestructible. I briefly had a blue automatic one that I never took photos of, it had the 3.0 Mitsu V6 and was a piece of shit and I got rid of it in a week. I'm sure a lot of people have had good luck with the 3.0 Mitsu, but every 3.0 Mitsu engine I've owned has had major problems over and over again.

The white/gold one had the Mitsu 2.6 and that engine was a complete piece of shit. If you remember a massive traffic jam one morning on the bridge between Langley and Maple Ridge, it was because my engine threw a rod coming down the ramp into Langley...

The 2.5 and 2.5 turbo is incredibly stout. When my life was completely fucked during COVID for not taking the vaccine, I drove my 2.5 with the 5-speed manual transmission, with a blown head gasket from Maple Ridge to Kelowna back and forth twice to move on the same day, steam pouring out the exhaust and had to refill the radiator several times, but the engine never gave up. The van STILL runs 3 years later, but I did have to finally change the fuel pump after it died on me this summer.

Before COVID I was rockin' this 2.5 manual 5 speed turbo van and it was sick, I sold it so I could buy another turbo, 5 speed car, but that's another post...

The white van with the Daisy wheels, I paid $1000 for during COVID, it came with snow tires and a ton of parts, I put nearly 40,000 kilometers on it, zero oil changes, just topped it up, the only maintenance was brake pads... guess how much Lordco wanted for pads? $180! Fuck that!

I got brake pads for it from RockAuto... $10 on clearance. The shipping was more expensive. Beat the ever living fuck out of this van going up and down the mountain to where I lived in Big White for over 2 years and it never left me stranded. Absolutely zero maintenance. It just would not die until the $40 fuel pump croaked this summer. No BCAA so it was a shitty $200 tow, that sucked.

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It is now 90000km, can't afford a new one

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Buy the Lexus LM !!!!! Me wanty so much

LM is like 400,000cad and gas is at $3.6/L, only a rear pimp can own one.

Omg. Okay don’t buy a Lexus LM. That’s insane.

Update: I inflated my tires (they were around 30 PSI lol) and got 7.08L/100km! :lol :woot2:

Try 60 psi

Scored so many hot chicks while driving this:

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I don't really get HK car pricing, it's so inflated when you buy new due to the taxes but used cars are so cheap. I find that some older cars are cheaper than what they are worth here. :fulloffuck: so how come used cars aren't worth more if new ones are so expensive

I can be 100% wrong.

But I believe they have a rule that your daily driver can not be more than 15 years old similar to Japan? So they forced the car off the road once it ages out.

Doesn't apply to collector car (like exotics) or commercial vehicles.

So if your car is gonna be obsolete in 4 years, you are really buying it for 4 years of use.

At least that's how I understood it.

EDIT - WHAO I WASN'T EVEN CLOSE LOLOL, but real answer below:

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A couple of other factors why used cars in HK are also cheap relative to here include:

• Operational costs are high: parking, gas, maintenance etc.
• Culturally the population is averse to used cars (or used items in general)
• HK humidity + summer heat reduce a vehicle's longevity
• Good public transport system lowers the demand for cars
• Unsure about this, but I don't think HK has a CarFax equivalent. This adds a lot of uncertainty for car shoppers when looking at used vehicles.

The monthly expenses add up quickly - $300-400CAD/month for home parking, another $300-400 if you park somewhere near your workplace in the city, $3-4/L of gas, plus insurance and maintenance.

These factors skew the mainstream car shopper to those who are at least financially comfortable purchasing a new car when in the market and can support the everyday expenses that go with it. Even then, the public transit system is good enough to make car ownership not worthwhile.

It's costly to buy a car in HK because of the tax on new cars. It's basically 100% on the MSRP of the car itself. A lot of car collectors and big ticket cars don't pay the HK tax and and don't register their cars and just run on T-plates (think demo plates in Canada). Who wants to pay 3MHKD for tax on a Ferrari Pista (unless you're insanely rich and don't give a fuck), not to mention after they pay HK tax, the owner is not going to be ever feasibly sell their car outside of HK market because they can't ever recoup the HK tax paid. This is also how you tell who's really rich. LOL. Many of the $$$ cars on T-plates are cars of dealerships/flippers.

It's also costly to upkeep and store cars. Annual license fees per car are based on a old stupid scheme based on engine cc size. You DON'T have to pay license fee if you are on T-plates. Funny fact, I was trying to get rid of my dad's clean but old S500 that, I eventually ended up selling it for scraps because, if unsold we were paying 5000HKD/month for the parking spot. A lot of car friends told me, that if the car was a S320 or unregistered on Tplates, it would sell much easier.

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What I pay yearly at home for parking is more expensive than what my 95 Honda Beat is worth. It doesn't really make sense in Hong Kong that way to own cheaper or beater cars because of that.

Is there a bit of an incentive for an EV in Hong Kong? Save on license fee?

Hong Kong's First Registration Tax used to be completely free on EVs.
Nowadays, it's more like 60-200k HKD discount on FRT.

New Model 3: 254k + 198k FRT - 60-200k exemption = 250-392k
New CLA250: 499k after FRT.
Used CLA250: ~270k, no FRT.

That said, taking uber or driving in HK easily cuts trip times in half cuz transit is slow af.
My most common trips out of Sheung Wan / Sai Ying Pun were always closer to 60 minutes.

In NYC, public transit is not only 24 hrs but is also always faster than driving.
Crossing the "harbour" to Queens/Brooklyn/Jersey is consistently 30 mins tops.
Express trains are probably a big part of it.

What kind of a nong Ming lives in sai ying poon ?!?!?!? :troll: Pssshhh I wouldn’t go there for all the claypot rice in the world.

I guess it doesn't make sense to own a car unless you live in those village houses with your own space to park. And I guess you can't just buy a spot with your apartment like Canmerica

Crazy how syp and Sheung wan gone from working class to hipster shit like Williamsburg