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• Weird Car Question

  Does anyone happen to know if they sell Curt trailer hitches in Kazakhstan? Or any kind of trailer hitch? We were looking into cars and we like the smaller cars for the gas mileage and lower cost but every now and then you need to haul something big. We were thinking that we could get […]

  5/14/11 • (Comments Off on Weird Car Question)

• Getting a Car in Kazakhstan

  A dear friend of mine recently bought a car here and I do occasionally get emails about driving in Kazakhstan for foreigners, so here is a basic rundown of what you need to do to register a new car. Buying a car wasn’t that much different from buying a car in the States. However one […]

  3/30/11 • (3)

• Driving Rules for Kazakhstan

  I was inspired by this post on driving rules in China to make up a list of driving rules in Kazakhstan: Ignore lanes. The lines wear off every year anyway because of all the salt and sand they put on the roads to melt the snow and ice. Instead, drive in the middle of your […]

  4/28/10 • (4)

• Lazy or Brave

  One of Chris Merriman’s Suggestions for Kazakhstan is on seat belts and making kids at least wear seat belts in the back seat as well. This has led me to a question that has bothered me since I came to Kazakhstan. To the Western eye, people in Kazakhstan are remarkably unconcerned with safety. People don’t […]

  4/28/10 • (1)

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  Astana Racer Still Doesn’t Work But I Wish It Did

  Just a quick update about Astana Racer. The creators have released a patch that solves some of the problems people were having with the game, which you can download here. You also apparently have to edit the file “config.cfg” and change the variable “use_video_player” from true to false. This file is located in Program Files/Astana […]

  4/22/10 • (3)

• Is Toyota Motors Doing Anything?

  As most of the world reacts to defects in Toyotas that can cause them to accelerate suddenly, not much seems to be being said about it in Kazakhstan. In Astana, every other car is a Toyota including most government cars. If Toyotas are dangerous, one would think it would be making major news. So far […]

  3/03/10 • (3)

• Rolling the Rolls

  Someone in Karaganda has modified his Mercedes E-class to look like a Rolls-Royce. The video doesn’t really show the car off to its best advantage especially as he seems to get stuck in the snow! But it’s still a pretty cool mod. And there’s a bit of social commentary as the neighborhood he’s driving through […]

  12/02/09 • (2)

• Police Crackdown on Protests; Court Shows Restraint

  Housing problems in Almaty are nothing new. Real estate prices are incredibly high and cheaper housing is destroyed to make room for new and inevitably high-priced development complexes. A number of regions on the outskirts are home to squatters who are forcibly ejected and denied compensation, or given inadequate compensation, when the land is marked […]

  12/22/08 • (Comments Off on Police Crackdown on Protests; Court Shows Restraint)

• Right Hand Cars

  As has been widely reported, on the 14th of November, Nazarbayev announced that Kazakhstan will ban cars with right-side steering wheels. The reason cited is that these vehicles cause traffic accidents, and presumably there is a reason why nations that drive on the right side of the road tend to have cars with wheels on […]

  11/27/06 • (Comments Off on Right Hand Cars)

• Cars in Almaty

  Thanks to Leila’s post on neweuraisa.net, I bring you: Cars in Almaty Leila laid out some of the serious problems with transport in Kazakhstan, including traffic, saftey and cars as economic indicators. Coupled with the previous post on neweurasia about income versus rising costs, it makes for a good indication of the situation. What percent […]

  10/04/06 • (Comments Off on Cars in Almaty)