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originallambrettaman said:
Bizarre decision, they're just writing off - Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, East Timor, Hong Kong, Indonesia, India, Japan, Macau, malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore, Sri lanka, Thailand, Botswana, kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Ugana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Australia, Christmas Island(Australia), Cocos Islands (Australia), Cook Islands (New Zealand), Fiji, Kirbati, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue,Norfolk Island(Australia), Papua new Guinea, Pitcairn Islands (UK), Solomon Islands, Tokelau(New Zealand), Tonga Tuvalu, Cyprus, Guensey (UK), Ireland, Isle of Man(UK), Jersey(UK), Malta, United Kingdom, Guyana, Surinam, Anguilla (UK), Antigua and Barbados, Bahamas, Barbados, British Virgin Islands(UK), Cayman Islands (UK), Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Monsterrat (UK), Saint Kitts and Navis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and teh Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caico Islands (UK), Virgin Islands (US), Bermuda (UK), Falkland Islands(UK), Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (UK), South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands (UK), Maldives, Mauritius and the Seychelles.
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And don’t forget everyone else but us lot drives on the wrong side of the road
 
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steverico said:
And don’t forget everyone else but us lot drives on the wrong side of the road
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Oh and it dates back centuries, most are right handed and kept the sword and scabbard on the left hip and allows the swordsman to slash with the right hand at oncoming riders, Napoleon decided to keep to the right to avoid congestion on the roads, more fool him
 
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steverico said:
Oh and it dates back centuries, most are right handed and kept the sword and scabbard on the left hip and allows the swordsman to slash with the right hand at oncoming riders, Napoleon decided to keep to the right to avoid congestion on the roads, more fool him
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Fun fact of the day, Napoleon never held a driving license! In fact, factafuckinmundo!
 
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Posintilclosin said:
Stupid decision. 3 of the 6 biggest economies in the world just neglected. Making some strangest decisions lately is Elon
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India - Tata Motors have 81.4% market share

Japan - the top 5 market leaders are Daihatsu, Honda, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Toyota, listed alphebetically

UK - the market leader is the Tesla Y, but only just. Nissa hold 2nd and third place with two models.

(Off the top of my head)

A seemingly strange decision to effectively pull out of somewhat lucrative markets at first glance, is, with those figures, not so bizarre at all. Any future developement can be concentrated on left hand drive models, negating the need to consider how you fit everything into left and right hand drive. And one assembly process.
 
Asterix said:
India - Tata Motors have 81.4% market share

Japan - the top 5 market leaders are Daihatsu, Honda, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Toyota, listed alphebetically

UK - the market leader is the Tesla Y, but only just. Nissa hold 2nd and third place with two models.

(Off the top of my head)

A seemingly strange decision to effectively pull out of somewhat lucrative markets at first glance, is, with those figures, not so bizarre at all. Any future developement can be concentrated on left hand drive models, negating the need to consider how you fit everything into left and right hand drive. And one assembly process.
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Tesla sold 25,000 cars in the U.K. last year, even little Hong Kong has over 10,000 Tesla’s. Japan hasn’t bought in to EV’s yet, they only account for 2% of car sales, but even there they sold 5,000 cars last year.

Still seems an odd thing to do.
 
originallambrettaman said:
Tesla sold 25,000 cars in the U.K. last year, even little Hong King has over 10,000 Tesla’s. Japan hasn’t bought in to EV’s yet, they only account for 2% of car sales, but even there they sold 5,000 cars last year.

Still seems an odd thing to do.
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Maybe Elon had plans to make all countries drive on the right - he is acting like he owns the planet
 
originallambrettaman said:
Tesla sold 25,000 cars in the U.K. last year, even little Hong King has over 10,000 Tesla’s. Japan hasn’t bought in to EV’s yet, they only account for 2% of car sales, but even there they sold 5,000 cars last year.

Still seems an odd thing to do.
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It's an idiotic decision.

You're denying massive, lucrative markets to yourself in order to save next to nothing.

The tooling already exists to make LHD and RHD vehicles.

Even on new concepts it's established practice which designers are used to working with and presents little or no problems.


Madness.
 
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Ernie Shackleton said:
It's an idiotic decision.

You're denying massive, lucrative markets to yourself in order to save next to nothing.

The tooling already exists to make LHD and RHD vehicles.

Even on new concepts it's established practice which designers are used to working with and presents little or no problems.


Madness.
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Is it not just the lower margin, higher priced X and y models that RhD production will cease?

All focus on the 3 and future cheap models seems to be where the electric wars are being fought, and I'm assuming production of RhD will continue... I could be wrong.
 
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