Cycle complete!
I've done something similar before when I counted campervans vs cars, in NZ's remote west, but I couldn't help to pass up to prove an interesting finding here in Uzbekistan. For the non-stataticians among you I apologise however for those who enjoy useless statistics then sit back and enjoy!
I had noticed how there seemed to be a complete lack of variety in Uzbek cars and so while I cycled, for 30 minutes I endeavoured to count every car that passed me by. Here are the findings: Daewoo: 147 Chevrolet: 75 Lada: 7 Toyota: 2 Kia: 1 Nissan: 1 Clearly Daewoo and Chevrolet have won over a fairly uncontested market but why is that? If you think back to Europe there are 6 or 7 car makers which share ownership relatively evenly across most European countries. I say 'most' as there are some biased samples such as the incredible increase in BMW's as you cross into Northern Ireland, when compared with the south. Or is that just me? 😉 Anyhow one possible explanation is that Daewoo and Chevrolet readily adopted their cars so that they could use gas as fuel instead of petrol. As Uzbekistan is rich in gas and as it is fairly cheap in comparison to petrol then clearly there was a demand for it to be used as a car fuel. But who would want to put expense into modifying their cars to do this? I'm fairly sure I've bored most of ye at this stage so I'll finish up by presuming that it was because of Uzbekistans small population that meant it would not have been worthwhile for 7 car makers to spend money on modifying cars for so small a market. Instead just Daewoo and Chevrolet did so. Perhaps there are more reasons behind the stats but to figure out those I'd need to find an Uzbek who can speak English of which the statistical probability of finding someone who does is probably zero!
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