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  1. Over 200hp, 2.0l with a kicked in yo engine. One of the best handling front wheel drive cars. This be the 4th gen. A customer of mine had the white one.
  2. Hmm interesting. Do you want to go ahead and post the next?
  3. Ok then here goes this should be easy.
  4. Chinese Chery Tiggo 4, assembled in Sri Lanka
  5. I thought @sathyajithj99 already answered so didnt want to take it away.
  6. Sure as hell looks like a grumpy old man
  7. Since Harshana has not put up anything maybe some one can put a new trivia for us to try.
  8. The first Rolls Royce Spectre goes to drum roll please...... Ukraine! And a Minister as well. Supposedly $600,000/-, reminds me of another country where the story is the same where people suffer and the politicians enjoy themselves.

    1. iRage

      iRage

      Its needed for national security and stability in the region...

    2. Gummybr

      Gummybr

      Still wondering how in the world Ukraine is going to be paying back for the weapons they have been asking from the EU and NATO. Maybe they could ask Russia to repair the buildings and compensate for the lives and livelihoods lost if Russia loses. But for sure they wont pay for the weapons from the US and the NATO.

    3. iRage

      iRage

      Nah...they won't pay back for the weapons. I doubt the American politicians expect them to either, but I am sure they have other interests in mind. 

  9. Yes correct @harshansenadhir this was the best picture I could find of the rear angle I wanted. Interestingly the rear has similarities with the main rivals of BMW & Mercedes models. The rear lights specially would have confused people to thing of the BMW 5 series gen 1. Its a very clean classic yet beautiful design in my eyes.
  10. Anyone knows the answer? @matroska you want to do the honours and give the vehicle name and model?
  11. Thats what the visual clue was to confuse. I just wanted to give some history. Looks like a very clean yet classical looking car with hints of its main rivals shown on the design (including the rear). On the back story it kinda seems similar to one of the main competing brands, which would have also gone bankrupt if it wasnt for one model that changed the tide.
  12. Ok then here you go, an example can be found in one of the classifieds in Sri Lanka. Dont think there are many around. Without the designer of this car (which was secretly developed this brand would have gone kaput.
  13. Maybe I ShoUld ZUlu or maybe I should ASK Again?
  14. It was wonderful when it started life so it seems that its taken over by the Elamilk community and the car sales brokers I see.
  15. A lot people will tell you that the ban will be lifted (1. car resellers wanting to buy cars cheap for higher resale. 2. Maybe this could happen with the elections in the horizon) Other than that the main issue Sri Lanka has is the fact that we do not have sufficient foreign reserves. Why do you think they want to extend the moratorium on debt payments till 2027? The foreign reserves of the country still stands at US$ 5.5b this is without paying any debts, imagine if the country opens up for vehicles and if history repeats itself you will have thousands of cars coming in and then you look at the outflows that 5.5b will be gone in an instant. (a small car will be approx. US$ 10-15,000 into 1000, a luxury car at US$ 40,000 into 100 these are conservative figures) Just imagine with the migrant workers permits the majority of vehicles imported are luxury cars (almost 100-150) all above Rs. 40mil and only about 20-30% lower priced mass cars below Rs. 20mil.
  16. Think they were imported when the duty was reduced for hybrids. One of our forum members at the time had one.
  17. There are quite a few in Sri Lanka. @harshansenadhir pls go ahead, another of those old timers.
  18. Thats a very compact touring luxury car.
  19. WRC is going to ditch the hybrid systems and go pure ICE to reduce costs. They will save on weight and save money building cars making it easier to get into racing. They will however look at full EV rally class later on. 

    1. MaleCortana

      MaleCortana

      F1 did the same with ditching the MGU-H (Generating energy from the heat components) and only decided to keep the MGU-K (Generating energy from kinetics upon breaking etc) basically to reduce costs and entice new engine builders to show up. 

    2. Gummybr

      Gummybr

      But then the bai logic fellows think that Audi won the Dakar in a full EV whereas it was running a petrol/diesel engine to generate electricity (like on trains and the Nissan ePower system). This does mean that the world of sport is still not ready for EV's.

  20. Seems like one and a CC (hardtop convertible)
  21. It is indeed a Peugeot 607
  22. Keeping this interesting. Try and see if you guys can guess this which is locally found. Very sleek saloon car this is I must say.
  23. Assuming not found in our shores and maybe (a big maybe) coming soon? Built like a Tank I must say, there's only two that I can think of and I can give you 300 reasons for this being not the most popular model that I thought of but the latter.
  24. First of all thats a nice car you got there. On this issue you could do what my ex colleague told my then CEO when he was complaining about the car scraping when exiting Keells in Kohuwela.... Boss why dont you change to Cargills! Same way you can stay away from going on that road by using an alternative road. 😂
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