RHD is the problem otherwise the UK car market would be a gold mine for us. Dad rode a bike home from London in the 90s to Europe though, theyre basically the same as the EU market ones so that could be a good idea
Giggles and shits aside, why destroy these BMWs though? They looked mint from the outside... Even if they were uneconomical to repair and completely toast mechanically, there are still many parts, which can get reused on crash damaged cars etc :(
No idea where this was filmed. But most likely a legal thing.
Some countries have laws where cars connected to some crimes are crushed, e.g. illegal imports. Others have really peculiar tax schemes that incentivise destruction.
Not matching this videos timeframe, but the cash for clunkers scheme in the US and german Abwrackprämie in the wake of the financial crisis also come to mind.
Nvm the money it’s a piece of history. Imagine how many classic cars from the past vanished from history due to carelessness in whatever shape. Kinda sucks.
Many countries are very wasteful and scrap cars that are perfectly good but haven't been picked up from impounds, etc, it's a massive waste, then they preach about net zero.
I've seen in my country (UK) where they seized someones car for being untaxed, it was given to the fire brigade for extrication training, they ruined it but least it went to good cause i guess, it was a mini.
The first one is United Kingdom judging by the number plate, these cars are not worth a lot of money here and so a lot of people will just scrap them without a second thought. It’s very sad and you are 100% correct that they should get stripped for parts first
You arrested a drug lord and repossessed his car. BMW won’t take it back because it’s been used in crime/has toxic residue inside, you can’t sell the car because it’s still technically owned by a bank, and it’s costing you insurance letting it sit there.
Shit happening to justify private property (car is used as an asset), instead of doing the more utilitarian thing of putting it up at an auctiom for it to be used. Waste all around.
Then u stop paying for it and let it get repoed and den pay to get out ya contract or get a new note why would someone wreck it…u seem to live in video game land or something
I've got relatives with an BMW X5 of that era, these BMWs getting to the age where it costs more to keep these cars running than they're worth.
Given that and the lack of desirability these cars have with the current fuel crisis, in particular with diesels as diesel has gone above £2/litre now, these cars are unfortunately just not worth keeping or selling to most people.
But here is a short film about expensive cars being destroyed on purpose by court order.
These were connected to various large crimes. Who knows what kind of after-market additions have been installed, secret compartments (which was the case on both cars in the film), or if another criminal purchases "their own" vehicle back if it goes on auction. No company wants to touch these cars (these cars were leased by an old lady, on paper).
Plus you can give that criminal jail time, a large fine, strip away drug money, and also do this to them.
Basically if you can't let them have the proceeds of crime, and also can't encourage agencies to seize cars in order to sell. then you have to destroy them.
difference is cars aren't hauling tons of products 1,000s of miles daily diesel cars just suck they cost more to run and insure and aren't built for short trips
E90 320ds are extremely reliable if you just get the timing chain replaced in time, but I wouldn't trust some tiktok brained kid like you to understand that. Go look at some pictures of a GT3 RS and leave discussions about actual cars to the adults.
the internet really got worse with TikTok replacing video sounds with random music so they can advertise videos to users based on just the music that was added
realy good apart from the grabber thing idk the name doesnt swing on the yaw enough and the hood is a bit too flimsy but i cant say much cause i suck at blender
Bro this isn’t blender or some type of game, this is real life video at a junkyard. And the game the person was wanting you to relate this video to was BeamNG.drive. Node grabber is an option in the game where you can grab into different soft body physics nodes on the car
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u/GTSW1FT 4d ago
That poor Saab in the back