Turkey unveils first fully domestically-produced car in $3.7B bet on electric

Re:Turkey unveils first fully domestically-produced car in $... by rolleiflex on Friday December 27, 2019 @05:02PM (#21895133)

Or a pretty yawning wealth disparity that Erdogan has created for his supporters. BMW and Porsche sell plenty of cars in Turkey, even with the obnoxious taxes mentioned above.

In a more neutral way of phrasing it, per-person Turkish GDP PPP is now higher than Greece and closing in on Italy. (https://tradingeconomics.com/turkey/gdp-per-capita-ppp)

Without commenting on who holds it, there’s plenty of wealth there.

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Re:Turkey unveils first fully domestically-produced car in $... by Marsymars on Friday December 27, 2019 @11:34PM (#21897108)

Does PPP matter for that particular comparison? I'd have assumed that BMW and Porsche prices are fairly PPP-agnostic.

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Re:Turkey unveils first fully domestically-produced car in $... by ClumsyPilot on Friday December 27, 2019 @11:52PM (#21897172)

But a domestic car production would be all about PPP.

Besides, thos8 id a long term project, we should be considering 10-20 year trends.

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