Seriously? I would never have known if it wasn’t for you and the other 11 people who’ve pointed it out to me. I can’t even edit my post to acknowledge the error. ;)

...and you are the 11th person to point this out. Thanks!

Thank you for the detailed correction. You are now the 10th person to point this out.

Congratulations! You are the 9th person to correct me!

Not any more! You are the now the 9th person to point out my geographical mis-remembering!

Thanks. You’re now the 8th person to identify my mistake. Serves me right for talking off the top of my head rather than looking at a map.

Good info! It would make sense that Russia is planning to sell ships that it can get out of the Caspian sea. I can’t see many countries buying them just to sail around the Caspian.

oops. That’s what happens when you listen to people on the internet...

They can sail down the Bosphorus into the Mediterranean. There is an international treaty to permit navies to use this passage, so US and other countries’ warships can also be found in the Caspian sea. Of course, this also means that the warships sail through the middle of Istanbul, so it’s not something they can do…

Lada Niva

Daihatsu Boon, also known as Toyota Passo in Japan. Some export models were called Daihatus Sirion.

This car is a Daihatsu, so your explanation seems legit to me.

Russian.

Most likely a used import from Japan (Kemerovo is right in the middle of Russia, and I suspect it’s a lot easier to sail cars into a port in Siberia than run the gauntlet of getting it through Eastern Europe).

The Tokyo Motor Show has always thrived on whimsical craziness like this. It’s perfectly Japanese. All these guys need something to fire their imaginations after churning out Camrys, Accords and Altimas, don’t they?

I read this in an unrelated article:

Hoon of the Deja va. Raphael edition.

Some Argentinians do indeed believe the Falklands to be their sovereign territory, and their government occasionally brings it up in an attempt to distract the populace from other more important matters. The 1982 invasion was dreamt up by the unpopular Military Junta partly because they thought it would get the…

Drivers including Rhys Millen , Bucky Lasek and Nelson Piquet Jr. chimed in with snark and condemnation of the apparent use of an illegal system.

The steps he was able to see lied in higher education