Philippines Customs Crushed A McLaren 620R, $1.2 Million in Cars

[Jollygoodfellow]

On 6/20/2021 at 10:38 AM, softail said:

That is the point, of course. All the smashing is meant to discourage importation by showing that the end result for anyone who tries is a car crushed in front of them for the whole world to see.

Yes this idea is to discourage others. Probably works most of the time.

[graham59]

Like a lot of things done here though...there is no leeway, no imagination, no creative or lateral thought, and little knowledge of 'the outside world'. 

Small-minded and childish, from top to bottom. 

Of course, disregarding this particular foolishness, that is why so many of us like it here... the chaos and lack of logic, the immaturity, etc.  

[Old55]

40 minutes ago, graham59 said:

Like a lot of things done here though...there is no leeway, no imagination, no creative or lateral thought, and little knowledge of 'the outside world'. 

Small-minded and childish, from top to bottom. 

Of course, disregarding this particular foolishness, that is why so many of us like it here... the chaos and lack of logic, the immaturity, etc.  

Graham, I think you make a great point. Filipino thought process and culture is of course different in some ways than Westerners. 

Could it be the President is pandering to regular Filipinos by crushing those cars? It's like giving the finger to the corrupt and rich.

[robert k]

There was a Russian Mayor (I believe, it's been years since the story was in the news) who drove an armored personnel carrier over illegally parked high value cars because the owners of the cars, were obviously unconcerned with fines for illegal parking or even towing. I'm not saying Duterte copied him, history does tend to repeat itself.

[scott h]

10 hours ago, Old55 said:

Filipino thought process

Off topic sorry, but during my walk today I went past a car dealer ship,,,saw a 2021 chevy corvette....beeeeuatiful, but what a waste of a fine machine on these roads...

oh, only 200 mil. lol

[robert k]

37 minutes ago, scott h said:

Off topic sorry, but during my walk today I went past a car dealer ship,,,saw a 2021 chevy corvette....beeeeuatiful, but what a waste of a fine machine on these roads...

oh, only 200 mil. lol

Track only I would presume, either the Corvette or the McLaren would drag the bottom off on any Philippine road I've seen. As far as I know, I think you can temporarily import a car (or motorcycle) at a more nominal fee to the Philippines but it must be exported again after some (probably brief, like month/s) period of time.

[Dave Hounddriver]

5 hours ago, robert k said:

As far as I know, I think you can temporarily import a car (or motorcycle) at a more nominal fee to the Philippines but it must be exported again after some (probably brief, like month/s) period of time.

As I recall, you can bring a personal vehicle in with you (licensed and registered in another country) and register it for up to one year then it has to leave the country.  I do not know of anyone who has done it.  I just remember reading that rule somewhere.

[Gas]

On 6/22/2021 at 12:48 PM, robert k said:

Track only I would presume, either the Corvette or the McLaren would drag the bottom off on any Philippine road I've seen. As far as I know, I think you can temporarily import a car (or motorcycle) at a more nominal fee to the Philippines but it must be exported again after some (probably brief, like month/s) period of time.

Spotted this McLaren 620r at the casino last night. Plenty of high end sports cars in the car park.

You would be surprised at the amount of high end sports cars that  roam the streets  of Manila and neighbouring provinces on a Sunday morning. The main highways going to Batangas in the South and the Nlex/SCTEX going North are in pretty good shape these days. 

[graham59]

Yep some pretty good road surfaces up our way now, that's for sure. 

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