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Old 06-27-11, 10:55 PM
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here are some cool pics of several ls430s. None of them are pimp machines like this board likes, but they are in pretty rough shape.

Does anybody know where this is? why are these people so hard on their cars? did you notice how many had damage on the quarter panels? kind of an odd place. Plus just the general lack of taking care of their cars.

be sure to click around at the cars on the left to see the damage on them. also, why do they have plastic on so many of the cars interior.

http://www.haraj.com.sa/11449196/%D8...3%D8%B2%D8%B3/

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Well it's basically like trying to keep a nice car up in a desert climate. You have constant UV exposure, with lots of sand/dust so cars are hard to be kept clean. Also, these may be DD's for these people and they see no point in keeping them mint. Another thing is drivers may not obey traffic laws much there (like china and india), making it chaotic to drive there and creating those bumps and scrapes you see.

I'm just speculating of course. Perhaps one of our Middle Eastern members (preferably one who can read all that Arabic on that page) tell us what's really going on.
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I like the gold one with tint. Then there a black 02 with sport badge 04-06 oem 18s and someone swaped the trunk and tails and tips off a 04-06 but they didn't swap the rear bumper ewww.
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The one with the 5-spoke LS 460 rims looks dope!
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UL w/o nav?? http://www.haraj.com.sa/11314494/لكز...ل_2003_/
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I just like how cool the Arabic's are in the browser address bar
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Originally Posted by CarGuy89
Well it's basically like trying to keep a nice car up in a desert climate. You have constant UV exposure, with lots of sand/dust so cars are hard to be kept clean. Also, these may be DD's for these people and they see no point in keeping them mint. Another thing is drivers may not obey traffic laws much there (like china and india), making it chaotic to drive there and creating those bumps and scrapes you see.

I'm just speculating of course. Perhaps one of our Middle Eastern members (preferably one who can read all that Arabic on that page) tell us what's really going on.
I happen to live in a desert climate and it's not really that hard to keep up a clean car here. The only real hazard here is the sun, since most of the lower end cars here have sun damage and oxidization. Maybe it's dustier in the Middle East. On another note, it's quite sad to see that these people aren't respecting their Lexus'.
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