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I visited Uruguay every year in the 1980s and 90s. There were tons of old cars and trucks. My great-uncle had an English car from the 1930s which he still drove
by forinti 2y ago
I visited Uruguay every year in the 1980s and 90s. There were tons of old cars and trucks. My great-uncle had an English car from the 1930s which he still drove.
They have almost all disappeared. My most recent trip was in 2023 and I only saw two old Fiat 500s.
The irony is that they have gas BYDs, which I had never heard of until last year.
Anyway, Uruguay is a small country but it has a very good educational system, so it's not surprising that many interesting companies come from there.
- alephnerd 2y ago> The irony is that they have gas BYDs, which I had never heard of until last year BYD bought out a failing automotive company decades ago which became BYD Auto, and continued building ICE cars. They only began mass producing EVs in the 2010s after getting a massive cash infusion from Berkshire Hathaway and Blackrock around 2008-09
- zubiaur 2y agoThey had the tooling for 9th gen corollas, which they fitted with mistubishi engines. One cold take a BYD F3 door and put it in a corolla. Fit like a glove.