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A used Myanmar car or Burmese car are often used Toyotas or an old jeep.

they might be old, a little rotten, often a used Toyota auto with plenty of rust and broken shock absorbers but it's a Myanmar auto, still going strong. Sometimes on the roads it is difficult to determine, do I see moving junk, a real auto or what. This is especially true with with taxis in Yangon which are mainly used Toyotas. Myanmar cars are mostly rotten Japanese cars which escaped the shredder in Japan, after they are exported to Burma, litter the roads of the country and poison the air. This is changing slowly since more and more car parts from China enter the country and this virtually then Chinese cars are assembled locally, also parts from Thailand are used.

Sometimes a new auto

is visible but the junk cars are the normality. There is a vehicle which has lost half of the floor, there are others which are just pulled together by wires and plastic tapes, no yoke, just check the taxis, Myanmar taxis are probably the worst rotten in the world. Remains from the second world war are still visible now mixed with old used Toyotas, junk which can hardly been called a car, coming together in the traffic. The thing is the cars from right after the WW 2 means US jeeps and SUV are usually in better conditions than the Japanese junk from maybe 2 or 3 decades ago, its interesting to see mostly white Toyota cars. The country is somehow a graveyard for used Toyotas imported from Japan, there are many and that's a cheap Burmese car.

Someone told me the other day that a lot of the newer Japanese cars on the road in are actually stolen in Japan by Japanese gangs and sold to Burma for a relatively low price.

Since the Myanmar authorities have no possibility to check the data at import its a good deal for some Japanese gangs. A other very common situation is to play cars, means buy a one and wait until there are some changes in the import tax, when there are changes, usually the tax climbs, the sales price of a car already in the country also climbs. Import taxes are very high.

Sometimes the people use a legal loophole by importing a used car for taxi purpose, they get a red number and taxes and duties are very low. When they did a new generation upgrade on taxis in Singapore some times ago most of the age old junk from Singapore ended up in Yangon and morphed into a local vehicle.

But slowly vehicles are manufactured in the country especially the jeep type as you can see in pictures here.

Burmese Car old Jeep half genuine local flavor. Myanmar car picture

A real auto

will replace them sooner or later or rather not so real since parts are imported from Thailand and China and assembled locally, the result are exotic vintage jeep style vehicles, usually without 4WD. But those Myanmar cars are real basic and tough just the right vehicle to roam the rotten roads of the country.

A jeep is one of the tough things,

the original jeeps from WW2 are still going strong and working hard, from time to time shock absorbers have to be replaced and that's it usually. In resent years Myanmar cars in pseudo jeep form have been assembled locally with parts from China and Thailand, they look a bit basic but they are cheap and they work, see picture left.

The Myanmar used Car Market

is dominated by Toyotas and in the resent days by homemade jeeps, this is genuine Toyota country and it is better to concentrate on a common model since the parts are difficult to get in the country, just imagine the size of the country and the very rudimentary transport system. But there are plenty of opportunities to find the vehicle someone wishes within his budget.

Since about 1990 this market is growing rapidly across Burma since the rising of the individual people after the communist put

area, it was more or less the same as in Eastern Europe. Today there are many alternative among different brands but as indicated before Toyota is by far the number one.

The demand for used cars

is increasing every year around 20% this has not slowed down even after they started to build their own jeep style cars with imported car parts from China and Thailand. There is hardly a warranty on a local vehicle since there are no dealerships from the big manufactures everyone is on his or her own. Even most of people won’t have any insurance this is one of the reason why the state won’t allow any foreign car with a non Burmese license plate into the country.

Value and quality are prominent factors when buying a car as it is the same everywhere, probably for the present it is a good option to buy one of these homemade jeeps which are still quite expensive since the authorities put heavy taxes on them.

A used Myanmar car or Burmese car are often used Toyotas or an old jeep.

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