@@urrra In addition to the steering, every part of the suspension and the frame are probably also fucked which would make a normal alignment impossible. Chances are the car's been in an accident in the West and been deemed unsafe/too destroyed to be repaired and then shipped to Africa where some guy in sandals welded the frame etc. and replaced a couple of body parts, painted the car yellow and then sold it as a "low mileage" taxi
@@aden3113 In Japan, taxes are higher when 13 years have passed since the car was manufactured. And after the 18th year, the tax increases even more. That's why when the car's driving distance reaches 100,000 kilometers, it is usually at the age when the tax rate goes up.
I think interviewing the owners of these cars would be pretty interesting, i would like some backstory on where they got their car, how much it cost and what have they done to it etc.
who cares bro, i’ve seen a documentary where they even ride bikes made by tree’s root. that thing even starts by hot wires, only god knows where that shit came from.
It's crazy seeing cars like this when in other parts of the world people are avoiding even the slightest scratches to their paint. Can't even imagine the amount of pages of failure points you would get trying to bring this into a mandatory annual inspection. Though if you had a car like this where I live it would've rotted away years ago from salted winter roads
I kinda love this car, it's got some serious soul. props to the toyota engineers for making something to survive 24yrs of whatever its been through....
These cars are hard to find in Japan anymore. Toyotas in particular can be driven without any problems even if they have exceeded 100,000 km or 500,000 km. However, in Japan, taxes go up after 13 years from the date of manufacture. Without this system, more people in Japan would drive old cars for a long time. The owner of this car would probably still be driving it if this system did not exist.
I've never heard of this system! Ironic that Japanese and American law both (incidentally) collaborate to make importing Japanese cars into the US more difficult...
Didn't know that. Seems that U.S is exact opposite. Taxes for registering an older car are much cheaper than newer ones. Payed only $150 for my 96 Camry compared to $500 for my 2015 Honda Accord.
@@ypk1580 its all for emission standards Japan puts the burden on its people and US puts it on the manufactures we just pay when we buy the car and thats why our cars are so expensive.
Wow, it's basically the exact opposite where I live. The average age of the cars on the road currently is around 13 years because new cars are extremely expensive due to the taxes basically doubling/tripling the sale price, so almost everyone drives old cheap cars. The annual taxes are sort of based on emissions etc. so they would be less on a newer car but for most people it's straight up impossible to afford even a base model new car with financing. In a way people driving older cars are getting punished more with increasing fuel prices and higher taxes etc. but new cars are so expensive, so people just have no choice. My newest car currently is from 2006
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Me and my dad had Corolla Verso 1.8 vvti and car has had so many issues with gearbox, engine, oil, consumption, that it was unbearable. They say toyotas are really reliable, sadly I haven't had the same experience with mine. :(
People go on about electric cars and being green here, this must be the better solution, you have to keep the same car until it has a million miles on the clock
2:14 how is he starting the car with his bare hands?? I googled a bunch of videos but all of them required a pair of clippers or something. What kind of magic is this? Please teach me.
If you look closely there is a loose wire near the starter that he touches to the starter motor. Either the key mechanism is bypassed, or they ran an extra wire from the battery because normally you wouldn't be able to do it that easily.
I'm over here thinking I got bucket because had peeling paint. These guys need to hotwire to start drive it every time and have a plastic water bottle for a coolant resivour. America and the 1st world have it so good
same .. with my 02 focus what i brought 3 years ago .. was in a horrible condition (but was cheap, the engine and transmission was OK, soooo, worth it in that time)....
You guys are talking like Africa is one giant country 🤣 there are places that hit 40+ degrees in temperature AND places that snow here. It's after all a continent
There’s clearly a lot to unpack here, but can I just remark how this guy drove through the town centre, including side streets and the market, and only had to stop when he felt the need through politeness or cooperation. Traffic lights are overrated. So are road markings, pavements, rules in general. Obviously everyone gets their car smashed to bits daily, but once you have adjusted to that…
It because of road safety and emissions makes it to expensive to repair old cars. I would drive my car until it looken like this too if it was allowed 😂
nice to see a car being re-used and maximised instead of sent to crusher over a small bend you will never see these again now with EV's going around good luck having one last this long
didnt know they made those engines in a 2.0....looks to be either a 2nzfe or 1nzfe which are 1.3/1.5 litres, but far out why is everyone honking their horns constantly.....
The number plates are literally painted on. Jesus these guys are so incredibly poor. I see some videos of really clean (albeit boring) JDM cars being exported to the congo and it's so sad to think this is how they will all end up.
Whats your favorite , POV or Reviews or both?
Definitely both . I watched all ya videos sinds the first day. You are such a great creator keep up the good work and calm videos of course 😎🎧🤙💪
Both. Short review then drive.
Both, I think all your videos are very nice.
both brother!
You both definitely make very good content Passy. Please don't stop doing it. 🙏☺️
Most well maintained civilian car in central Africa:
No
Idk if youre being sarcastic No its not this car is probably illegal here in Congo as well
illegal in what sense
Guys it's a joke, obviously not all our cars are like this, chill😂... but a good majority are this messed up let me not lie
@@nismo3871You are idiot ngl
You can tell the car has been through some shit when you have to hold the steering wheel at a 90 degree angle to drive straight.
Seems they don't have alignment shops in Africa ?
@@1marcelfilms Steering is fucked, I don't think a quick alignment is going to mend that.
@@aden3113 it may be fcked but that doesn't mean it can't be repaired normally
😂
@@urrra In addition to the steering, every part of the suspension and the frame are probably also fucked which would make a normal alignment impossible.
Chances are the car's been in an accident in the West and been deemed unsafe/too destroyed to be repaired and then shipped to Africa where some guy in sandals welded the frame etc. and replaced a couple of body parts, painted the car yellow and then sold it as a "low mileage" taxi
Imagine, after living in Japan, with high quality service, smooth roads and a mild climate, became a taxi in the Congo.. Poor car
You rather it gets to the crusher just because it was a little old ?
A little? @@1marcelfilms
In Japan, there are two choices for a car that has driven over 100,000 km
scrap or export to overseas
Imagine, which option is best for those car’s😢
@@北の侍 Why scrap or export overseas after 100k? Especially Japanese brands, they last a lot longer than that.
@@aden3113 In Japan, taxes are higher when 13 years have passed since the car was manufactured. And after the 18th year, the tax increases even more.
That's why when the car's driving distance reaches 100,000 kilometers, it is usually at the age when the tax rate goes up.
I think interviewing the owners of these cars would be pretty interesting, i would like some backstory on where they got their car, how much it cost and what have they done to it etc.
Agreed I'd love to know this!
Im the owner of this car. I bought it from Somali pirate for $50 and i added more dents and scratches since i owned it
@@Elonmusk898 thank you elon
random to spot jusu here lmao
@@Elonmusk898elon musk toyota CEO
the fact this thing even runs is a testament to toyota's quality lmao
This is why I only stick with Toyotas
🫡🫡
I'm worried that this Toyota might not comply with the original euro 4 emission regulations now
who cares bro, i’ve seen a documentary where they even ride bikes made by tree’s root. that thing even starts by hot wires, only god knows where that shit came from.
Automatic gearbox seems to work fine.... Really nice quality
It's crazy seeing cars like this when in other parts of the world people are avoiding even the slightest scratches to their paint. Can't even imagine the amount of pages of failure points you would get trying to bring this into a mandatory annual inspection.
Though if you had a car like this where I live it would've rotted away years ago from salted winter roads
I kinda love this car, it's got some serious soul. props to the toyota engineers for making something to survive 24yrs of whatever its been through....
That taxi has probably seen the frontlines of the war with m23 rebels 😆🔥🔥🔥
These cars are hard to find in Japan anymore. Toyotas in particular can be driven without any problems even if they have exceeded 100,000 km or 500,000 km. However, in Japan, taxes go up after 13 years from the date of manufacture. Without this system, more people in Japan would drive old cars for a long time. The owner of this car would probably still be driving it if this system did not exist.
I've never heard of this system! Ironic that Japanese and American law both (incidentally) collaborate to make importing Japanese cars into the US more difficult...
Didn't know that. Seems that U.S is exact opposite. Taxes for registering an older car are much cheaper than newer ones. Payed only $150 for my 96 Camry compared to $500 for my 2015 Honda Accord.
@@ypk1580 its all for emission standards Japan puts the burden on its people and US puts it on the manufactures we just pay when we buy the car and thats why our cars are so expensive.
Wow, it's basically the exact opposite where I live. The average age of the cars on the road currently is around 13 years because new cars are extremely expensive due to the taxes basically doubling/tripling the sale price, so almost everyone drives old cheap cars. The annual taxes are sort of based on emissions etc. so they would be less on a newer car but for most people it's straight up impossible to afford even a base model new car with financing.
In a way people driving older cars are getting punished more with increasing fuel prices and higher taxes etc. but new cars are so expensive, so people just have no choice. My newest car currently is from 2006
@@joey9511cars in the US is cheap tho what you on about
must be the nicest driver in all of congo frfr
Beautiful country you can tell everyone takes pride in they're surroundings..
8:21 eyyyy that’s the yellow Mercedes bus from the other video !
High KM cars are my favourite
Cause you'd know they'd last a lifetime
@@Grandeception No its because they can stop or giving problem any time in road thats exciting 😅
@@Desmondreis we have a toyota rav4 with over half a million km still running and driving
@@crazy-es8trwe have two fiats with around 400k km
@@crazy-es8tr lol, tesla taxis in NY run over a million miles with multiple servicing intervals skipped
The steering in this car is done through sheer imagination))))
well-aligned steering wheel, very nice !!!
@5:51 - A toyota hiace hearse, RARE!
wow
And looks so clean, more rare
he'll sell it to u for 10$
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I think that the Toyotas of the early 21st century, especially the VVTIs, were the most reliable.
Quite some oil burning issues for the early vvti's. the 90's engines were comparatively better
Me and my dad had Corolla Verso 1.8 vvti and car has had so many issues with gearbox, engine, oil, consumption, that it was unbearable. They say toyotas are really reliable, sadly I haven't had the same experience with mine. :(
any car with VVTI is a lot less reliable
Cars peaked in the early-mid 00s. Late enough to have modern efficiency and reliability, early enough to maintain older simplicity
Driver: "Aaaaa? aaaa?aaaaa?aaaaaa?aaaaa???" Do he have some problems with his ears?
Broooo, fr XD. This was the most frustrating in the whole video
A?
he's singing AC/DC's Thunderstruck
Probably has some hearing loss from all the noise
That's the way we talk over phone in Korea as well. We use tone of voices to convey what we're saying for some things.
Looks like a smooth drive
They always have the steering wheel turned and they drive straight 🤣 it's probably the 10th set of steering rods, and the alignment is "by eye".
More likely the original
If that car could talk, it wouldve said pls kill me already
"please let me die"
"no"
What culture did the US get the habit of putting "already" at the end of a sentence?
People go on about electric cars and being green here, this must be the better solution, you have to keep the same car until it has a million miles on the clock
Only the toughest cars are able to stay alive here. If you see a car still functioning in these conditions, that means it's very reliable
Family owned (passed around the entire village), low miles
Es ist ein Toyota. Hält ewig. Gerade erst eingefahren😊
Description says only a little damaged 😂😂😂
By their standards, it’s mint.
Low miles, owned by little old lady for church, one owner, now low-ballere I know what I have
@@towcat коли я купував авто в Канаді - салон був не набагато кращим.
2:14 how is he starting the car with his bare hands?? I googled a bunch of videos but all of them required a pair of clippers or something. What kind of magic is this? Please teach me.
If you look closely there is a loose wire near the starter that he touches to the starter motor. Either the key mechanism is bypassed, or they ran an extra wire from the battery because normally you wouldn't be able to do it that easily.
I'm over here thinking I got bucket because had peeling paint. These guys need to hotwire to start drive it every time and have a plastic water bottle for a coolant resivour. America and the 1st world have it so good
Never again will I complain about the condition of some cars in North America
Nah, this thing is still safer than some rust buckets that are ready to fall apart from the frame while speeding in a highway in northern states
Good looking car for african standards
The vast open plains of Africa, and this cars had more bumps than Charlie Sheen😳
For how fucked the exterior and steering is in the car the interior sure looks pretty intact
A Toyota will most likely outlive even his owner! Amazing
стряхивать в пассажирское окно пепел это новый уровень
Just more proof you just keep oil in a Toyota it will run forever.
Mint condition 🚗😎
Brand New 😮
And I thought my 06 focus with no cat was a shitbox... I'm jealous, honestly.
same .. with my 02 focus what i brought 3 years ago .. was in a horrible condition (but was cheap, the engine and transmission was OK, soooo, worth it in that time)....
the way you start the car
日本の夏はアフリカより暑い。コイツは涼しいアフリカに転勤出来て幸せだと思うよ。経済成長しているから純正品で修理もしてくれそうだしな。
What part of Africa are you talking about ?
人口密度が低いように見え、排ガス規制が厳しいことを考えると、日本がアフリカよりも寒くないことにかなり驚いています
You guys are talking like Africa is one giant country 🤣 there are places that hit 40+ degrees in temperature AND places that snow here.
It's after all a continent
the engine still runs better than my car...
日本の中古車あんな綺麗なのに何がどうなったらこうなっちゃうんだね、、、
There’s clearly a lot to unpack here, but can I just remark how this guy drove through the town centre, including side streets and the market, and only had to stop when he felt the need through politeness or cooperation.
Traffic lights are overrated.
So are road markings, pavements, rules in general.
Obviously everyone gets their car smashed to bits daily, but once you have adjusted to that…
Some cars will never die
I love that cars get a second life in the Congo and other African countries. it comes to show that one mans trash is another mans treasure!
Say what you want but cars with 1/4 of the mileage and damage are sitting in our junkyards.. these cars live out their full lives.
Says a lot about our capitalistic society and standards, not to mention economy…
It because of road safety and emissions makes it to expensive to repair old cars. I would drive my car until it looken like this too if it was allowed 😂
The alignment is amazing 💀
this is what we call a well looked after car in Bradford
Play in the steering wheel is measured in full turns
Sweet ride.. I just needs a little TLC
its very nice that africa is very car accessible.
Thats how well built a toyota is
懐かしいトヨタ車がいっぱいですね
日本で初年度登録から13年以上経った車は税金が多く取られる悪い制度によって買い替えが進み
それらがアフリカで活躍していると思うと感慨深いです
日本の国は日本車を大切にしません
まだ走れる車を廃車にして新しい車を買わせます
Wahnsinn, wie viele T3 da noch unterwegs sind.
5.36 und 7.00 sogar noch T2.
Huh. I wonder if there used to be a screen monitor in there. 1:24
Yep, navigation and stereo display
I can almost hear that engine screaming "im a survivor" song stuff
Is that a plastic water bottle as the coolant tank?
Yes.
An MOT inspector would have a heart attack and collapse on the spot
nice to see a car being re-used and maximised instead of sent to crusher over a small bend
you will never see these again now with EV's going around good luck having one last this long
There is a 400k mile Tesla still holding up very well. It's on UA-cam too.
The amount of confidence this car gave this man 😅 to imagine this is some big pimpin shit 😂
The interior is still nice.
What a beauty
The camera he’s using costs more than the car itself 💀
That car has gone through 3 World Wars
The struggle is real
Good car
I love your content, and @Blexinyy is also doing a fantastic job
How do all these cars have cracked windscreens
They dont get repaird since it isnt gonna stop the car from moving
Probably from a kicked up rock on dirt roads like that, not worth the money to fix
looks so much like my vibe / matrix toyota
You are a good driver bro, congrats 😎
Still looks better than my first vehicle 😅
Looks like that little car has been through hell, yet she's still drivable!
A great business opportunity would be selling replacement car and motorcycle horns... These guys must have to replace them every six months.
That’s basically the Toyota Matrix, just slightly different look to it
Tomica Number 16 back in the late 90s
GTA VI looks awesome 😎
Why does nearly every car in that town have a plastic sheet for at least one window? Break-ins?
driving supercars in dubai videos got nothing on this
didnt know they made those engines in a 2.0....looks to be either a 2nzfe or 1nzfe which are 1.3/1.5 litres, but far out why is everyone honking their horns constantly.....
traz um video dirigindo a noite, gosto da sensação dos farois e acolhimento do carro. E obrigado pelo conteudo.
God bless America..
lightly used corolla, will get you from A to B, has had some work done
it's crazy that i thought this was a video game at first
bro ive lived in africa my entire life yet never encounter a road ths bad bruh where r u???!
He's in Congo Kinshasa, what about you?
How do cars get roughed up so bad in Africa? Do people just keep crashing into things and each other?
what a car
The number plates are literally painted on. Jesus these guys are so incredibly poor.
I see some videos of really clean (albeit boring) JDM cars being exported to the congo and it's so sad to think this is how they will all end up.
El carro: Estoy cansado jefe 😢
Which episode of fake taxi is this?
I just realized he has to jump the starter bc his starter is out or going out 😅
why is everyone honking? i would lose my mind lol
GOOD 👍👍
Nice videos !!!! ❤❤❤❤
The front looks like an old yaris
what a unit
No thanks bro i think i'll just walk. The traffic crazy!
why is every vehicle tinted in yellow?