There is something weird going on in Turkmenistan! Based in Central Asia, we don’t hear much of a news from the country, but the latest development in Turkmenistan has left everyone astonished. According to Chronicles of Turkmenistan, the police is impounding cars of all the colors, except for white from the capital city of Ashgabat.
The whip by officials has come in the backdrop of a week old order to impound all the black cars from the country. Apparently, due to lack of written orders, police is impounding all the colored cars from the roads. Come 2018, police started to impound black cars, followed by all the colors.Also Read: California Investor Buys Bugatti Chiron, Pagani Huayra with 450 Bitcoins
While there is no clear communication on why it is happening, according to the report, Turk president Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov is superstitious about the white colored cars, which happens to be his favourite color. The officials banned the import of black cars back in 2015 stating “white color is supposed to be lucky."
The online publication states that the citizens of Ashgabat city woke up to find their cars missing. They later found that the car has been towed by officials and only after signing a document, which obligates them to repaint their car to white color, they are getting the car back.Also Read: Lexus LS 500h launched in India!
This has resulted in a massive price hike of auto body shops, who are demanding $1000 to repaint the car, instead of the earlier set price of $500. “When I came to the auto shop, I was told that the repainting would cost 7,000 manats but that in a week the price would rise to 11,000 manats," a black car owner from Ashgabat said.
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