They're too rare for me to bother.

funny how?

Her mom don't want her to wear make up

So what's the deal in Laos and Cambodia when you buy a car why is it so expensive?

Working on material for your Seinfeld tribute tour Lonely?

Never watched that show.

Foreign car? If so it's the taxes.

My khmer friend tols me that the taxes can get as high as 100%, but It seems retarted to me.

China is the same way. No about those two countries, but in China if the taxes weren't that high then no one would ever buy a Chinese car.

It make sense for China, but I never heard about any laos car or khmer car

Laos and Cambodia don't have car manufacturing and the more cars that are imported, the more they need to invest in infrastructure.
So tax the cars coming in to help pay for the infrastructure they need. Now of course I doubt 5% of those taxes go to where they are supposed to but that is one reason to tax them.
Also cars are luxury items in those countries so it's like a luxury tax. Have the more well off people pay luxury tax.
If they has car manufacturing then they would have more incentive to make cars more affordable as it would be promoting an industry.
I like the high tax on cars idea. Look at Singapore, not too many traffic jams there because no one can afford to buy a car.

Haha, that works well if you have good public transport. I can't figure out why people buy cars in places with great metro systems and plentiful cheap taxis/uber/didi. The only reason I can think of is to gain face.

Ding Ding Ding.

And because taxis in some places are a mafia cartel that overcharge, refuse the meter, carry weapons, machete tourists to death, rape female passengers in your family, etc

Metro closes at night

Uber is unavailable/banned cos of the taxi mafia, or expensive

They dont always buy cars outright, some pass them down in the family or rent on finance

To me a scooter is a must. I would hate to be at the mercy of public transportation for every little errand I need to do. But I'll rarely drive farther than a few KM for safety reasons. Just good for running around neighborhood.
Was in Bali recently and Uber is great there. Super affordable and don't have to haggle with taxi drivers.

Having your own transport is great because you don't have to rely on other people's timetables.

In regions with decent 3G, not driving a vehicle yourself has an extra advantage - the hands (and nerves) are free and can do something on a smartphone* while commuting. Even in absence of an Internet connection, some useful work like programming or language learning can be done.

* In Asia, it has to be cheap and have decent data protection in order to mitigate potential losses to robberies. Only the info currently needed for work and no sensitive personal info should be stored there.

Can't wait to have a car that drive itself. Most of the time I limit myself to listen podcast when I drive long distance, but sometimes I play hearthstone or browse and post on the internet. Having someone driving you around is just +EV.

It's great if that person can actually be trusted to drive safely. That isn't really the case in Thailand especially, buses and minivans are by far the most dangerous way to get anywhere.

Cambodia mini van driven by a 15 years old can be very scary indeed.

Whre's c00n ?

I'm yet OK.

I'm glad you are fine my friend.