welcome to wacky Wednesday's, where everyone has a chance to show off their
car mods, and here's this week's winner,
so when most people think of Cuba they think amazing old American cars but
actually the majority of those cars are taxicabs and the majority of cars driven
here are actually the Fiat Polski which is a Polish Fiat
it's tiny and compared to the giant old American cars, it's probably highly
unsafe, you see tons of these things all over
you also see a lot of these Russian models these Russian Ladas were
equivalent to the Yugoslavia Hugo in terms of quality, they're not
particularly good and now they're really old, but they make an interesting mix of
cars on the road, here in Havana every mode of transportation is used, if you
look in the distance right over there that's so that's a horse and buggy, what
you see on TV, all the old cars here in Cuba most of the old American cars like this
one they're actually taxicabs, so if they look really good kind of like
this big beautiful convertible is, they are a standard taxicab you just pay for
the fare, if they look really beat-up which like that one right there those
are for that one right there, those are called taxi which is a
collective cab basically a share taxi cab for multi people, you pay nothing you pay 40 cents to take a
ride in those but they they follow a standard route and they pick up up to
six people, supposedly dirt cheap I've yet to take a ride in one but I heard
there's something like it's pennies for every ride you take in them, which is
ironic because gasoline here is four dollars a gallon, it's a dollar a liter
just kind of instead weird considering how little money they earn, but that's what it costs, some of them are
repaired so many times over in the 60 years since they've been imported in
that they're basically solid bondo, I mean you hear that that's not an
original Oldsmobile engine, those are diesels mostly imported out of
all out of Russian Ladas, the engine of that thing is about one-quarter the size
of the original v8 that used to come in those 1950s Oldsmobiles
the interiors are usually completely stripped out and modernized in this
particular one there's some kind of a Lada of steering wheel in an old American
car, I mean they some of them look really like patch up jobs,
some of them look like straight out of a Mad Max film, it's beautiful but it's all bondo and it
looks like there's not even the original chassis because it's sitting so high and
then they drive on tires are completely flat it's really fascinating, there is no
safety standards there's also no emissions standard, you could just see
that straight here and take a look at this exhaust pipe, that appears to be a
four inch diameter exhaust pipe and a lot of the cars have them here like that
one, here that clackety-clack that's the sound of a diesel,
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