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Teankun
 Posts: 44 Location: Mountain USA |
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I am not sure if this is the sub-forum to ask this question, but here it goes:
I’ve noticed quires few anime and manga (most recently Yuwara and You’re Under arrest), that often when a rich or otherwise high status person drives a luxury import car that the steering wheel is on the left side. Is this actually a status symbol in Japan or some other part of Japanese culture or just the anime/manga emphasizing that it is an import car? Otherwise, why wouldn’t they get a car with the steering wheel on the right like the other cars in Japan of which I would think would be more practical if not safer? And it would be rather pointless to have a Rolls-Royce or Jaguar with the steering wheel in the left side. |
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Vaisaga
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I guess it could be seen as a status symbol. "Hey, look at this car I got from another country!" People over here do stuff like that too.
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dtm42
Posts: 14084 Location: currently stalking my waifu |
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Yeah, but even if you got a car from another country, why would your Bentley be left-hand-drive? That's what Teankun was asking. |
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Vaisaga
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Sounds like the easiest way to make sure everyone knows you're driving a foreign car.
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dtm42
Posts: 14084 Location: currently stalking my waifu |
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Actually, I did a search on the internet and you can buy used Bentleys in Japan with left-hand-drive. Huh.
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Galap
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Is it even legal to use a car of the wrong chirality?
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Rhyono
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@Galap I don't see solid grounds for making it illegal. The car can still drive on either side of the road.
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dtm42
Posts: 14084 Location: currently stalking my waifu |
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Not in New Zealand. Guys here love importing classic American cars and then showing them off around town. Where-ever they go people drool like crazy. |
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aleatory
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You can't drive left hand drive cars here in Australia, you have to get them converted to Right hand drive.
I think there are some exceptions made for vintage cars of certain sorts which fall more into hobby or collectible status but that is about it. |
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marie-antoinette
 Posts: 4136 Location: Ottawa, Canada |
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I remember spotting a parked car one day that had a right hand drive, so I assume that in Canada you can drive on whatever side you want, so long as you're on the proper side of the road.
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Cam0
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Well I believe it's legal in most of Europe. But I've never noticed this. Maybe they buy their cars from US, second-hand. When thinking of a luxury car you tend to think of Germany. Germans drive on the proper (right) side of the road so maybe that's it, I doubt it though. |
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Teankun
Posts: 44 Location: Mountain USA |
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There cars here in the USA that have steering wheels on the other side, but ususally they are for the postal service
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st_owly
 Posts: 5234 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland |
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It's certainly legal in the UK and Europe. We'd not function if we didn't let folk from the continent bring their cars over on the ferry and vice versa.
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publicenemy333
 Posts: 563 Location: Los Angeles, CA |
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Other than USPS cars, I've only ever seen one car driving with the wheel on the right side
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aleatory
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Lol someone always has to pipe up with a comment like that, there is no proper side of the road to drive on sheesh. |
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