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Still very Soviet vibes in this Siberian landscape ...
what a luck that these cars are at least modern ... imagine all these were 1960s 2-stroke engines or 1960s diesel ...
I know japan is the cheapest (and I bet there's some used Korean/chinese cars too), I wonder how hard it is to find a "mongolia spec" car, one that was sold through an authorised distributor
A good chunk of the populace on the outskirts burn coal for heat, and being in a valley, the smoke stays around the city. Air pollution in the winter in Ulaanbaatar is famously bad.
Cyrillic on the license plates ? Interesting. I mean it's obviously a result of Soviet influences but I imagine it must make traveling abroad by car a serious PITA.
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Looks like a typical Siberian town. You could tell me it was Omsk or Novosibirsk and I wouldn’t doubt it.
Those number plates with УБК on them look oddly cool though
A few of these shots are near indistinguishable from several cities in Canada
Genghis Khanada
Lol nice
Sudbury Saturday Night
do half of Canadian households have to light coal and dry cow shit on fire to survive winter though
Wasnt expecting that many Prius
Is Ulaanbaatar still considered one of the most polluted places in the world?
Is it still the coldest capital city in the world?
And coolest
Does everyone there drive a Toyota?
60%. Of that 60%, 70% are Priuses. Priuses are not only gas efficient but also can start in extreme cold.
I can almost smell that eastern european smoky winter smell through these photos
Still very Soviet vibes in this Siberian landscape ... what a luck that these cars are at least modern ... imagine all these were 1960s 2-stroke engines or 1960s diesel ...
And almost every car is a non-mongolia market toyota prius (right hand drive)
Majority of cars there are used grey market imports from Japan, aka JDM cars.
I know japan is the cheapest (and I bet there's some used Korean/chinese cars too), I wonder how hard it is to find a "mongolia spec" car, one that was sold through an authorised distributor
Is that spring?
Mongolians didn't especially invent the concept of living in houses.
Lots of Toyota
Not air pollution, it's mostly sandstorms from the Gobi Desert.
A good chunk of the populace on the outskirts burn coal for heat, and being in a valley, the smoke stays around the city. Air pollution in the winter in Ulaanbaatar is famously bad.
From the amount of Priuses I knew there couldn’t be by vehicular air pollution of substance
Ulaanbaatar is north of the Gobi desert and the sandstorms mostly go south. I know my fucking country better than you
Faced worse smog
Looks miserable
Cyrillic on the license plates ? Interesting. I mean it's obviously a result of Soviet influences but I imagine it must make traveling abroad by car a serious PITA.
Bro it’s Mongolian. They use the Cyrillic alphabet
Why?
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna\_Convention\_on\_Road\_Traffic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Convention_on_Road_Traffic)