Some cities have a litter problem, some suffer
from high crime rates and others might have a lack of affordable
housing. And then you have Dubai, which for the last several years has
been facing the unusual problem of high end sports cars being abandoned
and left to gather thick layers of dust at airport car parks and on the
roadside across the city.
If you’ve ever been to Dubai or anywhere in the United Arab Emirates, you will have noticed they have a serious car culture out there, with a particular preference for the latest and greatest in high-end super cars. But like the rest of the world, Dubai has fallen on hard times. Once the hub of the oil economy and the centre of a booming property market, foreigners, mostly British, invested in the red hot market. Newly wealthy ex-pats bought the lastest Italian and German sports cars to compliment their millionaire lifestyles– and then the global economic crisis came along and burst everybody’s bubble.
Thousands of the finest automobiles ever made are now being abandoned
every year since Dubai’s financial meltdown, left by expatriates and
locals alike who flee in a hurry because they face crippling debts. With
big loans to repay to the banks (unpaid debt or even bouncing a cheque
is a criminal offence in Dubai), the panicked car owners make their way
to the airport at top speeds and leave their vehicles in the car park,
hopping on the next flight out of there, never to return.
Ferraris, Porsches, BMWs, Mercedes are regularly abandoned at the car
park of Dubai International Airport, some with loan documents and
apology notes simply left on the windscreen and in some cases with the
keys still in the ignition.
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