"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
10/26/2015 at 17:33 • Filed to: Turkey, Statistics
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"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
10/26/2015 at 17:33 • Filed to: Turkey, Statistics | 1
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Latest in our exploration of who buys what and where comes Turkey, a country straddling Europe and Asia and known for Aghia Sophia, the theatre at Pergamon and the cave churches of Cappadocia, all of which are Greek, and a relative absence of Armenians due to !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! which are still denied in Turkey.
So, what do the Turks choose to drive around in? Do they buy facelifted versions of obsolete Western cars? Have they asked the question to which Subaru is the answer? Are VW a thing? Sometimes, no and yes.
So let’s have the Top Ten for the period to September. There are a few surprises.
Fiat Linea
Toyota Corolla
Renault Fluence
Ford Transit Courier
Fiat Doblo
VW Passat
Renault Clio
Ford Transit
VW Jetta
Focus
The first five are made in Turkey and while the Linea is a developing market-only car based on the Punto the Corolla, Fluence, both Transits and the Doblo are exported to Europe and available at dealers near me.
You have to go down to no. 7 to find a hatchback and while the Jetta is hugely outsold by the Golf in Europe the Turks are obviously deeply devoted to three box cars and to vans.
Turkey is the only place where the Fluence, a Renault that you can’t buy in France, is popular.
Here’s a Fluence, a French car neither made nor sold in France.
Have the theatre at Pergamon which is only Turkish in the sense that it’s now in Turkey.
Have also a Linea.
pjhusa
> Cé hé sin
10/26/2015 at 17:36 |
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Ooh! Theater of Pergamon! We went over it in Engish Lit.
MultiplaOrgasms
> Cé hé sin
10/26/2015 at 17:55 |
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I am certain the Linea was at some point sold in western europe as well.
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Cé hé sin
> MultiplaOrgasms
10/26/2015 at 18:14 |
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I’m not so sure. They might have had it in Poland or someplace. I saw a Siena the other day which probably came in with a Polish immigrant.
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MultiplaOrgasms
> Cé hé sin
10/26/2015 at 18:20 |
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Did the obligatory research, found it was definetely sold in germany and probably italy as well as the new EU member states.
duurtlang
> MultiplaOrgasms
10/26/2015 at 18:20 |
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Nope. Well, at least not in the Netherlands and I have never seen one in Germany either, save for the occasional Italian tourists.
Corolla has been discontinued in the Netherlands years ago as well. Even the Jetta has been discontinued, even when the Golf is a top 3 best selling car.
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MultiplaOrgasms
> duurtlang
10/26/2015 at 18:29 |
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I have seen aboot one in person, and there are aboot 40 of them listed on mobile.de. Even Wiki says it was sold at least in germany until 2010. If they sold it in anti-sedan-land germany, they sold it in other parts of europe as well.
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duurtlang
> MultiplaOrgasms
10/26/2015 at 18:35 |
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You seem to be right, about Germany that is.