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BillCowher · Joined: 21 Aug 2009 Posts: 131 Location: Up in the air!!!

You might avoid a Caddy because the mechanics don't know that almost every part on it can be purchased for a Chevrolet. The most popular, and therefore cheapest to fix are the GM (Chevy & GMC) large SUVs, Chevy Caprice (pronounced CAPris), the largest FoMoCo land yachts available etc.

Who really cares about gas guzzling when gas is almost given away for free? I would look at it this way. This will be the last time in your life you can ever afford to actually own & drive a big car again so just go ahead & enjoy it before the oil straw in the sand makes that giant empty sucking sound in the next 30 years. As an environmentalist myself that sounds hypocritical to say but someone is going to drive that gas guzzler & it might as well be an expat rather than a Saudi who will just drive it until it falls apart.

In 30 years there will be a huge, temporary market for Bangali and Filipino labor. The Filipinos will cut the roofs off all those big cars & the Bangalis will fill them with dirt. Then the Filipinos will plant flowers in the ready made flower pots. The real business to be in then will be camel farming. The guy with the camels will be able to name his price. The Filipinos will go home so the water desalinization plants will cease operation & a water concession will do well also.

The Lathe of Heaven · Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 6:46 am Post subject:

Dear OP,

Unless you are a family with children you really don't need a car in Riyadh. Better yet Riyadh doesn't need another car. The brown smog hanging over the city is a good indication of this. We are married but we don't have children so we are satisfied with the company transportation and also the odd cab ride. We are waiting to leave Riyadh today and will look into hiring a driver in the city/town we will be posted in. It's really unsafe to drive here in the KSA and most Gulf States for that matter. You may be putting your family at risk by going into traffic regularly. In the end it is your call and I am just expressing my concern in this matter.

Regards.
TLOH

Stephen Jones · Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 4124

I disagree completely with TLOH. Riyadh is a place you definitely need a car. Distances are too great otherwise.

007 · Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 11:33 am Post subject:

saharastars · Joined: 30 Sep 2009 Posts: 107 Location: Wonderland

I was thinking of using public transport!

johnslat · Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 11:02 pm Post subject:

Dear saharastars,

To paraphrase one of Yogi Berra's sayings:

No one uses public transport in Saudi; it's too crowded.

Regards,
John

The Lathe of Heaven · Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 2:26 am Post subject:

johnslat · Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 3:41 am Post subject:

Dear LofH,
That's a very safe bet.
Regards,
John

P.S. But you may get invited to engagement/wedding parties (if you do, try to think of a good excuse - well. go to one, just for the experience of it, but after one, I doubt you'll want to go to another.)

007 · Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 8:10 am Post subject:

trapezius · Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 9:09 am Post subject:

Sheikh N Bake · Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 1307 Location: Dis ting of ours

007, if you wish to embargo all US products and services, I suggest you get off the internet. Or were you under the impression that internet technology is Chinese-designed? I assume, of course, that your computer is a Sony or Toshiba. But they use Intel products to work, so again I suggest you get off the computer.

007 · Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 11:18 am Post subject:

Thanks God that Uncle Sam does not own the Internet. If he does, then we have to pass the security scan by taking our shoes and trousers off before we use the internet.

My computer is manufactured in China, assembled in Japan, and exported to America. So, China and Japan are not in my embargo list!
Don't you know that 95% of the computers are made in China! Wake up, change your shoes, China is coming .........

Now back to the car business:
Go for Toyota or Nissan, avoid GMC and Buicks.

Sheikh N Bake · Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 1307 Location: Dis ting of ours

Many respected veterans of these threads such as VS have often advised you to put a sock in it before you embarrass yourself further. You never learn, do you? How pathetic to see someone's rants for years and years and they never grow as human beings.

007 · Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 12:36 pm Post subject:

Well, I advise you to put a rotten sock in your mouth and flush yourself down the toilet of Uncle Sam.

GMC cars are not good, go for Toyota or Nissan.

trapezius · Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 1:16 pm Post subject:

007, what matters to you?

The country of manufacture? In that case, you shouldn't be using your computer as it is Chinese made. Don't you know that China oppresses its Muslim minority in the Xinjiang Province? And China oppresses all of its people in general, in one way or another.

The country of design/invention/conception? In that case, you shouldn't be on the internet as the internet is a US invention, and a military one at that! And the hardware and software in your computer are US inventions as well.