# North Korea's Volvos

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/north-koreas-volvos/109985>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Tags:** volvo\
**Created:** [December 4, 2017, 2:50pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/north-koreas-volvos/109985 "2017-12-04T14:50:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 2:50pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/north-koreas-volvos/109985/1 "2017-12-04T14:50:46Z")

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North Korea’s Volvos [https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/12/04/547390622/how-1-000-volvos-ended-up-in-north-korea-and-made-a-diplomatic-difference](https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/12/04/547390622/how-1-000-volvos-ended-up-in-north-korea-and-made-a-diplomatic-difference) from Monday’s ‘Morning Edition’

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**Author:** ![db4690](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/db4690/32/2583_2.png) [@db4690](https://community.cartalk.com/u/db4690)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 5:18pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/north-koreas-volvos/109985/2 "2017-12-04T17:18:24Z")

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I particularly like this part

“Scottish tourist Duncan Lang spotted a Volvo 144 during his trip to North Korea in October 2010. “I heard the car coming before I saw it,” he tells NPR.”

I can only imagine the car’s condition, if the guy heard it “a mile away” before he saw it. 😆