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Not so bad here after all . A video about how seriously Hong Kong takes any modification to cars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wdSBpakvnI

1536Z4 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2024 4:40 pm Not so bad here after all . A video about how seriously Hong Kong takes any modification to cars

To be fair things are pretty relaxed here.

If I lived there I'd just leave my car standard!

1536Z4 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2024 4:40 pm Not so bad here after all . A video about how seriously Hong Kong takes any modification to cars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wdSBpakvnI

Possibly political more than anything. Since we gave HK back to the Chinese, they have not had a good time of anything TBH. Communists have never been great lovers of freedoms of will, or expression, or anything IMO.

Pondrew wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2024 12:28 am Possibly political more than anything. Since we gave HK back to the Chinese, they have not had a good time of anything TBH. Communists have never been great lovers of freedoms of will, or expression, or anything IMO.

I think it's an Asian thing to be fair.

In April 2010 I boarded a flight in Melbourne to come home from a business trip but got "stranded" in Singapore because of a dust cloud from a volcano in Iceland closing all UK airports. Probably only got boarded because it was a Singapore Airlines flight and they'd rather put me up there than in Melbourne. I didn't mind as they put me in the 5 star Shangri-La with a remote that could open the curtains.

Sadly my employer also had an office in Singapore, and a colleague I used to sit next to in Windsor was running the department on an ex-pat deal. Chatting to him I discovered you needed a Certificate of Entitlement in Singapore to actually be allowed to buy a car there and a COE costs a minimum of S$104,000 now so about £60K!

Obviously our employer paid that as his OH needed a car to ferry their 3 children about but he just used the brilliant underground and taxis.

Japan doesn't seem to be keen on private car ownership either, so we get to buy JDMs.

Thanks for putting up the link - great video. Must try out that light wand technique for the monthly photo competition .

Not just an Asian thing. Driving a modified car will quickly get you into hot water in many EU countries.

Singapore has 2,500 people per mile of road compared with 250 in the UK and 50 in the US, hence they need to do something to control private vehicle ownership.

Roberltd2 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 8:31 pm Must try out that light wand technique for the monthly photo competition

plenty wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 9:11 pm they need to do something to control private vehicle ownership.

I can understand wanting to reduce car ownership in those circumstances but why modified cars or is it just that they are an easy win . I wonder if the cars that are impounded are just released with a fine or something worse ?

1536Z4 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 9:18 pm

plenty wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 9:11 pm they need to do something to control private vehicle ownership.

I can understand wanting to reduce car ownership in those circumstances but why modified cars or is it just that they are an easy win . I wonder if the cars that are impounded are just released with a fine or something worse ?

The quoted post above was referring to Singapore.

Hong Kong for decades has had an active subculture of people meeting to drive fast on the roads at night, Fast & Furious style. It's not very popular with the general population and targeting conspicuously-modified cars is one way for the authorities to be seen to be taking action, regardless of whether or not their owners take part. This is not new, but no doubt the clampdown is intensifying as Hong Kong overall is becoming more of a police state every day.

plenty wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 10:18 am The quoted post above was referring to Singapore.

Oh yes . Note to self read more carefully