Where old Peugeots go to die

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On a recent trip to Cairo, I could not help noticing that every second car was either a Peugeot or a Fiat. Good for them, you might say, but there was just one problem. All of the designs were over 20 years old, and many of them went back 40 years.
In a strange inversion of the normal practice, the older the model, the more of them you saw. Every third car was a Peugeot 504 (introduced 1968), with the next most popular Peugeot being the 1979 505. There were no modern Peugeots at all and it was the same with Fiat. There were thousands of 1970s-era 128s, 131s and 132s, but no Unos, let alone Puntos. Imagine if you never saw a Ford Mondeo in the UK, but thousands of Cortinas instead.

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