Romanian cars

Are you interested in who drives Romanian cars? When I first came here - you could have any Romanian car you liked - as long as all you dreamed of is a basic white Dacia. I bought such a car from my wedding money and it is going strong. Despite the fact I own an apartment in Bucharest, the UK and work in a decent International School, the local village gossip is I am bankrupt - the evidence of this being the mark of shame - I still drive a little white Dacia - and have not upgraded it at least twice in the last 4 years. There is of course a very good reason for this - it works well and every time a crap Romanian driver crashes into me, it is incredibly cheap to fix!

Okay - here are the run down of Romanian cars you can expect to see in Romania.

The dilapidated wreck - these are found on most Bucharest streets, the windows green with algae and the wheels broken with flat tires. They just sit, slowly decaying away - effectively ownerless - with the exception of the lone street dog that lives under it, who will take the occasional snap at your heels if it feels so inclined.

The most popular car is the whore-mobile. You will see these all over Bucharest and less so outside the city. There will be some blonde woman in a huge jeep - who runs on the theory that the wider she spreads her legs, the bigger the car she gets in return. The women are ridiculously young and so are quite incapable of driving anything more than a bicycle - only by letting their legs doing the walking, can then afford the throbbing monster of a massive black car.

Then there are the boy racers. These need to tint all their windows black. It is quite funny - some have such rubbish cars, and it is clear all their money is going to the bank. My evidence of this is I I’ve n a really area with a rubbish car. They live in areas even the street dogs look as if they are trying to work a way of escaping it, yet in the morning are huge queues of luxury cars coming from these suburbs. I always wonder why if they can raise this sort of capital, why they didn’t move to a nicer area rather than waste their money on cars which - due to Bucharest being packed full of nice cars and aggressive drivers, fail to impress anyone.

There are then the Roma cars, these are always beat up Mercedes or BMWs, again which have seen better days and not impressing anyone.

The funny thing is my little Dacia just bounces at high speed over the terrible Romanian roads - one set of roads I saw was really bad but with a single excellent road passing through it as this was the route the local mayor took every day - the worst roads being n the richest areas. The big powerful four by fours in contrast, which adverts have powering over mountains, crawl carefully at a snail pace over Romanian bumpy roads! I have to laugh at them!

However hit what Romanians jokingly call the autostrada, and my distinct advantage vanishes - suddenly I find my little white Dacia the plaything off 4 x 4s with huge cattle bars strapped to the front. When you are busy trying to overtake, these monster Romanian cars whizz up behind you lights blazing demanding you pull over and you have to wonder where they think I can go to move out thee way - into the side of a speeding truck I guess.

Which brings me to Romanians fascination with the big. As we live in a city with very few car parking spaces, we should be moving ore to Fiats and Smart cars - not monster trucks. Apparently they are safer - but this is only because Romanians don't wear seatbelts and taxi drivers take great umbrage if you put one on. So we live in an ever increasingly polluted city, with ever-bigger cars, with ever more powerful systems, which clean and cool the air inside the black tinted windows.

What do you think of Romanian cars? What do you think of the Dacia range of cars? Do you recommend any?

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