nothing odd considering Russia is a place of many really rich individuals. Moscow is the world's most expensive city, so there is certainly foreseeability when ti comes to expecting high standards with regard to luxuries.
i saw something like that many time when i was reaching my wife in her city... thousands of trucks leaving from st petersburg heading to moscow... and awful traffic jams too
You'd expect they'd use railways for this... reminds me of Holland, first most of the country's rail freight infrastructure is scrapped during the 1970's and now the motorways are crammed with trucks... but I digress. Reminds me of when I was in Sudan, I had a few rides in an old Kyoto city bus, saw plenty of trucks with Dutch license plates still on them and even a car that still said "Seoul Radiology Clinic" in huge print. The place was teeming with the world's discarded vehicles, very few were actually bought locally it seemed.
Same thing in Rotterdam europort in Netherland. Exept it's not trucks but multiple level parkings with a bunch of new cars during long kilometers. Very impressing.
I bet a lot of them are stolen, too. A lot of nice looking cars that are stolen in US, Europe, etc. also end up in such countries. Once a car goes overseas, it's hard to track it down and prosecute...
That's pretty scary, but then the bailiffs etc. want to get rid of them at the end of the day and won't care who buys. How can the person filming be sure where the cars are from? Are they really all foreign repossessed cars? As said, how can you tell they're all legal? That would be a good way to hide some stolen cars, just hide them amongst a job lot! I don't think trains would be practical for this - too expensive. I don't think they could stack them in the same manner - certainly not without making special carriages. Plus you still need to get them on and off the train and onto transporters to move them to their final destination - that's a very slow and costly procedure in itself, so you might as well put them on transporters and be done with it.
Around the ports in Hamburg there trains over 2km long full of cars theres even a little island that is just used as a car store.
at least the ones i saw from st. peters to moscow you can bet they are brand new and still with the interiors wrapped. in russia people are starting to improve their lifestyle, and banks are starting to give a wider access to credit, so people can start affording such cars.
There are lots of people who import used/wrecked cars from Western Europe to Poland/Russia/Latvia ect., also probably a grand black market. I don't think very much of these cars are stolen. If you go to Poland however, consider a 50% probability of getting rid off your car involuntarily. My neighbor once visited some Polish relatives and in the end he got robbed by his own landsmen
madhatter256, I know it was report by the police in the area were I live alot of high end cars that were stole were beinging shipped to places like Russia. you wouldn't believe it they were puttting them in shipping containers and just shipping them out by the hundreds. If it was my vehicle I'd be madder than hell! and of course on the west coast here we had a couple custom agents who have been cought excepting a bribe, bloody crazy! :shrug: