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Cars Being Abandoned Left and Right in Qatar
https://autos.yahoo.com/news/cars-being-abandoned-left-qatar-133031192.htmlIt’s hard to imagine abandoning your car. Sure, it might just be a rust bucket — but it’s your rust bucket. Regardless, apparently some people in Qatar are simply leaving their cars to rot in the desert. And they’re not all just rust buckets.
In recent years, Qatar has been hit hard by a growing trend of abandoned vehicles littering city streets. From your average clunker to ultra-rare Jaguar XJ220s (seen here), residents of the tiny nation — which is smaller in size than Connecticut (only 4,467 square miles) — have bore witness to the rapid growth of renounced autos.
According to Qatar’s The Peninsula, there are a few reasons behind the phenomenon. Many residents attribute the trend to the country’s steady population increase, while others chalk it up to owners facing huge traffic violations, a default on their credit payments, or fees attributed with proper disposal of used cars....
So far, the government has removed more than 10,000 vehicles from the city of Al Khor in northern Qatar, with more than 12,000 vehicles hauled away nationwide, according to an April article from Qatar Living.
In recent years, Qatar has been hit hard by a growing trend of abandoned vehicles littering city streets. From your average clunker to ultra-rare Jaguar XJ220s (seen here), residents of the tiny nation — which is smaller in size than Connecticut (only 4,467 square miles) — have bore witness to the rapid growth of renounced autos.
According to Qatar’s The Peninsula, there are a few reasons behind the phenomenon. Many residents attribute the trend to the country’s steady population increase, while others chalk it up to owners facing huge traffic violations, a default on their credit payments, or fees attributed with proper disposal of used cars....
So far, the government has removed more than 10,000 vehicles from the city of Al Khor in northern Qatar, with more than 12,000 vehicles hauled away nationwide, according to an April article from Qatar Living.
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