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Car and the City

Category: Turbo

  • Azerbaijan Auto Market 2025

    I came across an interesting post on Reddit. Some statements there are controversial, but overall the trends are described well. I used to follow the market through the eyes of BestSellingCars, the information on which was taken from an unclear place. Someone privately provided it to Matt, having access to some inside information on dealers. It reflects only sales of new cars, which are inferior to the import of used cars (at least they used to be inferior). I also got information from fragmentary data from the State Statistics Committee.

    Then I abandoned this idea, even though I have slightly more data, coming into contact with the largest platform for ads for the sale of cars. The latest data on BestSellingCars, by the way, is also for 2022.
    It seems obvious to me that Chinese brands dominate among new cars now, the import of used cars from Korea has grown a lot. The State Customs Committee reports on figures, but not on brands and models, without even specifying where the vehicles are imported from:

    Azerbaijan imported 16,758 vehicles in January-February 2025, which is 26% more than in the same period last year. The total value of vehicles imported into the country was $288,940,130 (an increase of 16.7%). The average price of a car was $17,251
    The largest number of vehicles were passenger cars and other motor vehicles for the carriage of passengers – 15,309 thousand units (an increase of 27.3%) with a total value of almost $256 million (an increase of 17.6%). Average price of a car is $16,717
    Of passenger cars, in particular, 7,577 thousand hybrid cars were imported during the reporting period (an increase of 2.9 times) for the amount of 146 million US dollars (an increase of 1.8 times). Average price of a car is $19,303
    In addition, over 2 months, the number of imported electric cars amounted to 309 units (a decrease of 42.9%) for the amount of 12,839,900 US dollars (a decrease of 1.9 times). Average price of a car is $41,553

    Turbo.az shares information about the most popular car dealerships operating on their site, as well as official dealers. This is not about sales, but about ad views, but it is still very interesting (data for 3 months of 2025):

    Самые продаваемые автомобили в Азербайджане в 2019

  • Guilty pleasure and Turbo

    Among my strange hobbies, there is one brought from my childhood that haunts me obsessively. I can’t even call it purely nostalgic. As the mass of nostalgic affairs after some memories dissipate – an indulgent smile, a slight sadness, some associative rows. But with Turbo it is somehow different for me.

    But first I have to tell very young readers what Turbo is. If your first association with this word is with Turkish chewing gum and pictures with cars, you can skip this paragraph. So, in 80’s – 90’s, Turkish Kent company produced different chewing gums along with other food products and it coincided in some strange way with the shortage and the resulting greedy-guts behavior in the socialist camp countries. That’s why one of the series of chewing gums with automobile inserts (wrappers) got to all sorts of Bulgaria, Romania, Poland and the former USSR and became not only popular, but also surpassed the popularity in the homeland. However, in Turkey too there is nostalgia for Turbo and references to this brand will definitely be found in all kinds of digests, such as “top 100 nostalgic things from childhood”. Gum was first brought by “speculators” (early form of self-employment in USSR) and semi-legally in all sorts of retail outlets (for example, I remember a table near the department store in Baku). And quite expensive. However, I will stop price disputes here at once, because it is a very controversial and debatable topic and it is not correct to compare the price of bread and milk of that time and today with imported, not always legal goods. But for sure the margins of gummies were quite high.

    Later Turbo and dozens of other chewing gums, mostly Turkish from Kent, Ulker, Bifa, Dandy, Baycan, etc., flooded into “commercial” stores, stalls, tents. Here are some names from those years that you might remember too – Lazer, Final, Bombibom, CinCin, Minti, ??psevdi (aka Love is…), OtoMoto. I, like almost everyone else, was a fan of Turbo and twice collected liners (the first collection was stolen in my school), but the years went by, adulthood, foreign cars began to drive on our roads, gum became quite cheap and cars were not so attractive anymore.

    But in adulthood I became interested in Turbo again, and thanks to the Internet not only saw all the missing pictures, including the legendary first series 1-50, which did not come to our country, but also read a lot of interesting things on the subject. Fortunately my hobby remained rather passive – I didn’t start collecting pictures again, buying rare unopened gum at auctions, etc. My nostalgia is limited to posting on my blog photoshopped cars that I find interesting, sometimes accompanied by historical comments. Some of them could never be portraited on original Turbo even if they were quite old, some were and linked to the pictures of Turkish wrappers.

    Wandering around the internet you can realize that there are a lot of people passionate about Turbo, but as I think everyone has their own references and passions for this media fetish, not like me.

  • New Turbo Collection

    Wagonlog rested a bit. Meanwhile the whole “Guilty pleasure” hobby of making own nostalgic pictures replaced to La Vida Bloga and moved forward. But here I would like to restore it and translate/adapt all those cute and ugly stories. Not images:)

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  • Новые Turbo, номер 78

    Какая же серия Turbo без легендарного 190-го? Ведь расцвет серии первых серий от Kent совпадает с безумной популярностью этого Mercedes.

    Вот образцы из оригинальных серий. Вторая по стилю похожа на нашу новую.

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  • Новые Turbo, номер 77

    Рассказывая про появление VW Polo мы коснулись истории появления Audi 50. Машинка, продававшаяся только в Европе и выпускавшаяся всего четыре года. ее пытались воскресить на пороге веков – в 1999 вышла Audi A2, которая была намного больше действительно компактной машины из 70-х. Позже ее сняли с производства, а в 2010 в классе супермини появилась Audi A1, которая также очень отдаленно напоминает малышку Audi 50. A1 впрочем выпускается до сих пор и нынешнее поколение делит платформу с Volkswagen Polo Mk6 и SEAT Ibiza Mk5.

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  • Новые Turbo, номер 76

    Давно не было Turbo по понятным причинам. Сегодня модель из современных. О ней был пост в блоге.

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  • Новые Turbo, номер 75

    Об истории автомобильной империи British Leland и роли в ней марки Austin можно почитать в музее. А вставить эту модель в серию новых Turbo меня подвигло то, что у Kent в ранних сериях частенько попадались эти автомобили, несмотря на их английскую природу (основной рынок сбыта – Объединенное королевство, правый руль и тд). Хотя нужно сказать, что Austin (или Rover или MG что по сути одно и то же) успешно импортировал свои модели, даже в виде зарубежных производств. Так например Maestro, вышедший в 1982 был успешно перерожден в Китае в 2000-х – на фабриках в Чанчуне и Чэнду модель собирали с минимальными изменениями вплоть до 2007 года. Иногда использовались моторы Toyota, а автомобиль выходил под брендами FAW Jiefang и Yema.

    А вот образцы Austin с классических- Turbo – модели Montego и Metro

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  • Новые Turbo, номер 74

    Пожалуй это одна из первых моделей сделанной в Корее с которой я познакомился. Очень стильный автомобиль, дизайн которого, между прочим, спроектирован итальянским ателье Bertone.

    А посмотрите какой чудесный ролик был снят для Кореи для этого автомобиля

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  • Новые Turbo, номер 73

    Экспериментальное суперкупе Infiniti Project Black S, созданное на основе модели Infiniti Q60 S при участии инженеров и гонщиков формульной команды Renault Sport была представлено в 2018 году. Уникальная «двухгибридная» установка ERS (Energy Recovery System) во главе с «турбошестёркой» 3.0 выдаёт 571 л.с. и требует меньше четырёх секунд для разгона до 100 км/ч благодаря трём мотор-генераторам, собирающим энергию от торможения и выхлопных газов. Купе развивает на 41% больше сил, чем обычный Q60 S. При массе в 1775 кг его удельная мощность выше на 39% (320 л.с. на тонну). Все ярко-жёлтые акценты на машине — это приветствие команде Renault Sport Formula One. Выбор шин был остановлен на Pirelli P Zero (275/30 R21 спереди, 295/30 R21 сзади). Титановые наконечники выпускных патрубков созданы с использованием технологии 3D-печати.

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  • Новые Turbo, дайджест

    Для удобного просмотра сразу всех картинок

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  • Новые Turbo, номер 72

    Не знаю почему, но в детстве я не очень любил вкладыши с мотоциклами. Но самую первую Turbo которую я увидел, была как раз не правильно расположенная картинка с мотоциклом BMW – номер 82:

    До этого я видел только мультяшные вкладыши Donald, а тут такое!
    Хотя сегодняшняя картинка к другому BMW – из серии 121-190 (номер 126). Тоже K1, в классической красной раскраске, но немного с другого ракурса и с наездником:

    А вот оригинальная картинка:

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  • Новые Turbo, номер 71

    Восьмое поколение популярной Сонаты сегодня попало на наши картинки.

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