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Old 06-19-2008, 06:27 AM
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Welcome To Uzbekistan

In this thread I will put a number of cars that I recently shot in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. (with a Panasonic Ixus). Most cars are Russian made, and these are still abundantly around. In order to protect its own local car industry (in fact it is owned by Daewoo, and probably the only factory outside Korea in the world that still produces Daewoos rather than Chevrolets) there are very high import levies on new and second hand imported cars (except from Russia). The streets are full with Ticos, Matizzes and Nexias, but many old and new Russian cars are in full use still. (Contrary to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan where most have been replaced by Western cars).
I spent an two hours on the on an early Saturday morning, before temperatures reached their normal 35 plus, so here is the result. Not everything is top notch, I also had to take the privacy of people into account.
I'll put on the pictures first and then edit-in the names.
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