Ads in Germany. “Car! For free! Condition – take yourself!” or “Car. For a case of beer.” Absurd? No. The fact that the disposal of the car is in Germany for few hundred Euros, and so is “not my problem”.
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In Germany, even older cars is in great shape, but the standards and of the market and requests of inspection is tremendous. Cars older than 7-8 years is considered “old”, but older than 10 is almost impossible to find. And it’s not the Fiats and Toyotas with fords, is a normal adult brands, especially German.
Typically, the machine changes to a new one every 3-5 years and the market is huge, and competition – and from around the world is colossal and because the price of cars, not brand new or with minimal scratch – negligible.
But it is not even that. Owning a car has LONG ceased to be in Central Europe a kind of indicator of “material success” or “status”. Used in Russia the word “wealth” can’t say, because nobody will understand, if You will, as in the fourth country and third world, for example, Congo and the Russian Federation to consider the car an indicator of “wealth.”
Car have anyone, even a schoolboy, a student, a refugee if they need to (see announcements at the beginning of lent).
On the contrary, everyone who can, try to do WITHOUT a car. For example, my thirty children receiving much more than 90% of Muscovites still do not have a car.
Why?
First of all, it is considered “cool” as in Russia is considered cool to have iron on wheels.
Secondly (or firstly) , this is an act of Conservation.
Thirdly, the contents of the car – it financially and in terms of Parking, etc. – a waste of resources that can be used differently. This RF spectrum of spending money is negligible and dominates the mentality of show-off and possession (a consequence of the lack of culture and poverty).In Europe, however, alternatives – dam. Fly to Madeira, for example. What are you doing in Germany several times a year.
Of course, everyone has the right to 17 years old. The lack of it, as it is still an epidemic in Russia – shocking the Germans more than the poverty of the Russians, it is like not to have electricity at home or not be able to read.
How to move people in most automotive power in the world without a car?
1. Live like I’m under so compact settlements (the bulk of the work near the house or lives in villages and district centers, it is better than “cottage” in the Russian concept). Walk.
2. Bike.
3. Split, when to take what is necessary and how you have the car in this community of sharing.
4. Brilliant multi public transport, which is. galakticheskih like Lada to Mercedes, far from public transportation even of Moscow: clean, frequent, pervasive. Considered “expensive”.
As such it is in three reasons:
1. huge for such a low qualification (2-3-4 thousand euros per month) salaries of transport workers.
2. Protection of nature and the conscious appreciation of mobility to encourage saving resources. 3. Artificial maintenance of many parts of public transport as elements of CULTURE AND HISTORY and for the “poor”.
Of course, as all this (and concepts) are openly discussed and voted on.
The welfare state pays huge subsidies for “poor” use public transport – in its different forms.
Recently completed the adoption of a new transport concept of Germany, which were made, after discussion, 30 thousand changes. The cost – hundreds of billions. There is no limit to perfection in a world of progress and constant improvement of everything.
But if the Germans buy cars, then:
– small
– diesel
– gas
– electric
– hybrid engines
etc.
Being tested, for example, a car driving … water.
So, when Medvedev said that “in every Russian family can be the car is from Germany to hear the incomprehensible, ridiculous, and even more likely produce a negative impression, as the statement that “in our country everyone can buy a loaf of bread” or that “we have electrified the whole country.”
Sergey Fedulov
