In Tenerife not seen a cool car
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papergoose said:
You should go to Malta - we were there last summer and saw lots of crackers!
Nothing like that in Tenerife from what I saw ! And it's the perfect place for a soft top being pretty warm all year round , it's been up to 27 this week , bloody cold when you come home , let's hope it's warms up soon There are some very good roads in Tenerife and there are some quite nice cars. You'll certainly see some expensive and interesting cars in the more wealthy parts of Santa Cruz and in the more remote parts at weekends.
I doubt you'll see so much in the South - W210 Merc taxis and mobility scooters are more the order of the day in those parts and I'm not sure any of the locals ever go to there apart from for work.
I doubt you'll see so much in the South - W210 Merc taxis and mobility scooters are more the order of the day in those parts and I'm not sure any of the locals ever go to there apart from for work.
A variant of the anthropic principle applies. If you're English, you're probably in an area that's popular with English people. Who in the Canary Islands is going to be daft enough to have a nice car in an area popular with English people? Those drunken f
ks will smash its windows and st on its bonnet soon as look at it.
ks will smash its windows and st on its bonnet soon as look at it.
I lived in the canaries for a number of years, yes there are a few nice cars about, but.....
Think of where it is, a group of small islands off the coast of Africa. This means everything has to be imported (even most fruit & veg), it's not like there are even great freight or ferry links to the islands-they are very remote!
So you damage an alloy wheel for your 5 year old porsche, where do you get your replacement? Yes you can order and arrange shipping from the mainland but it's all a ball ache.
Would their be a Porsche main dealer in the islands? Might have more luck on gran canaria as its the main island but even still, the amount of people who they can realisticly sell to is pretty small.
Then think about the economy. Money of any amount has really only started flowing into the islands in the last 40 years so a class system hasn't had a great amount of time to establish itself. By this I mean that there sure ain't a great deal of snobbishness about fancy cars and even if there was (in ex-pats), just getting hold of and looking after anything unique is a logistical pain in the arse.
The roads are indeed excellent however fatalities are high. Not withstanding drink related accidents (of which there are many) if you fall off the road outside the main conurbations there's a good chance you won't be seen for quite some time due to the remoteness of any village that doesn't revolve around tourism.
I guess it would be similar to expecting a vivid motoring scene in the Outer Hebrides
Think of where it is, a group of small islands off the coast of Africa. This means everything has to be imported (even most fruit & veg), it's not like there are even great freight or ferry links to the islands-they are very remote!
So you damage an alloy wheel for your 5 year old porsche, where do you get your replacement? Yes you can order and arrange shipping from the mainland but it's all a ball ache.
Would their be a Porsche main dealer in the islands? Might have more luck on gran canaria as its the main island but even still, the amount of people who they can realisticly sell to is pretty small.
Then think about the economy. Money of any amount has really only started flowing into the islands in the last 40 years so a class system hasn't had a great amount of time to establish itself. By this I mean that there sure ain't a great deal of snobbishness about fancy cars and even if there was (in ex-pats), just getting hold of and looking after anything unique is a logistical pain in the arse.
The roads are indeed excellent however fatalities are high. Not withstanding drink related accidents (of which there are many) if you fall off the road outside the main conurbations there's a good chance you won't be seen for quite some time due to the remoteness of any village that doesn't revolve around tourism.
I guess it would be similar to expecting a vivid motoring scene in the Outer Hebrides
Malta is only a couple of hours max for a ferry crossing so there would be a better car scene than on Canaria. You only have to look at the Isle of Wight which is a 35 minute ferry crossing and has hundreds of interesting cars left. With the Canaries you're looking at a 33 hour crossing minimum and 40 hours to the extremities.
LaurasOtherHalf said:
So you damage an alloy wheel for your 5 year old porsche, where do you get your replacement? Yes you can order and arrange shipping from the mainland but it's all a ball ache.
Would their be a Porsche main dealer in the islands? Might have more luck on gran canaria as its the main island but even still, the amount of people who they can realisticly sell to is pretty small.
Went there for a week in January and there is a large OPC you can see from the motorway just outside Santa Cruz so, yes, there is a main dealer.Would their be a Porsche main dealer in the islands? Might have more luck on gran canaria as its the main island but even still, the amount of people who they can realisticly sell to is pretty small.
Also saw what appeared to the the "Porsche Club" out for a drive in the mountains with about 12 Porkers, mainly new expensive ones, out for a day trip.
This was around the Three Kings holiday so no one was at work which is probably why.
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