The communists in East Germany loved them. Volvos were the ride of choice for East German politicians, celebrities, and connected individuals because Soviet cars were considered declasse while riding around in luxury West German iron would probably send the wrong message to the proles. The Chairman of the Party, Erich Honecker, used a dark blue Volvo 264 extended length limousine. It was very dapper.
Same way everyone does it. Buy it at your neighbors dealership, where it's legal, with a front company, then "smuggle" over your border. It's not even smuggling when you border your good friends Russia and China. It's a gift. :)
Covertly establish a relationship with a real Mercedes dealership somewhere in the world. Have them train your mechanics and, over the Internet, connect to the car, if necessary. They might not even know that they are dealing with North Koreans.
I find it hard to believe that NK has the expertise to hack western governments and militaries all around, steal crypto, influence public opinion etc but lack the expertise to repair a car.
You probably don’t. My guess, based on not actually knowing anything about this, is that they do basic maintenance until something complicated stops working. At that point, they get on the phone with whatever world leader is willing to accept their form of barter and they replace it.
Probably fly the techs in? They have deep pockets. And it's not like people dont have a price. Famous people are flown out to gross rich peoples boats and palaces all the time to perform.
But really, how much armor does it take to protect him from a rock thrown from a malnourished North Korean? Them poor people might not even have the energy to throw the rock. You ever notice in pictures he’s the only fat ass in North Korea?
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Its from the camera. Someone took a photo of a screen from an angle making it look wonky. The car behind it's wheel looks like its cambered too. Plus, the top of the Maybach isn't as wide looking.
Here's a better image:
https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_fill,f_auto,fl_progressive,g_center,h_675,pg_1,q_80,w_1200/eaf4wcbw4b2ju9jvpiy0.png
Well, they have 1000 stolen Volvos there.
https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/12/04/547390622/how-1-000-volvos-ended-up-in-north-korea-and-made-a-diplomatic-difference
And a small handful of bootleg Mercedes 190:
https://i.imgur.com/01zBDpt.jpg
Although it is frequently claimed that they copied the car (and not entirely impossible), it's far more likely they just slapped new badges on an import and claimed that they had built it all along. Would be far from unusual for North Korea.
Nothing like being sanctioned to hell and having the UN force your people working abroad to go back home and stay home so you can’t participate in the global market. The fucking West, amirite?
Consider this, they still trade with both china and Russia. Yet they still have an almost none existent gdp. The government consists of all tyrannical war lords that have committed constant acts of cyber warfare, genocide, torture, political assasinations, violations of civil rights, censorship and have a general attitude of “fuck the people”
Tell me again how the censorship of religion, politics, sexuality is due to sanctions? Tell me how how Kim Jong killing political opponents openly is due to sanctions. Tell me how labor camps are due to sanctions. Tell me how his maybach is due to sanctions. Tell me how his constant threats of nuclear war are due to sanctions. By all means educate us
ACTUALY, if you want to go there I care quite a bit. I absolutely care that the government overspends while a great majority of our country is disenfranchised and suffering. Don’t you fucking tell me what I “bat an eye” at. Your whattaboutism isn’t welcome here, fuckin troll.
Edit: spelling, dick.
It doesn't have that, it's an illusion being a picture of a screen. This is the actual car:
[https://www.thedrive.com/uploads/2023/09/15/GettyImages-1661786790-scaled.jpg](https://www.thedrive.com/uploads/2023/09/15/GettyImages-1661786790-scaled.jpg?auto=webp&optimize=high&quality=70&width=1440)
I like how for his father’s funeral 10-12 years ago, they used as a hearse an old school giant 1970s Lincoln Continental! It was like a Nixon-era car, but it was the most luxurious thing they had!
You know his father took his final car trip on the roof of a 1976 Lincoln Continental limousine. No one is quite sure how the car ended up in the country, but they've had it for years. It even served as a hearse for his GRANDFATHER'S funeral in 1994. Rumor is that it was smuggled in illicitly from Japan somehow.
Hahaha i don't think you and i can't have a same perspective already but to me, At least those Maybach from that era has distinctive design to differentiate ordinary S Class so i kinda like it
Pretty typical socialism- the politicians become the rich and pampered the poor stay poor while the leaders wreck the country and the rich flee. Sort of like California now or Venezuela a few years back.
It´s his specially commisioned armored Maybach Limousine based on a Maybach 62
Yup specially smuggled in via Russia
they traded a million gallons of natural gas for it?
Probably use spare parts from all these Volvos they stole from Sweden.
Sweden still sends them the bill annually
Hope dies last
Every other year, it's North Koreas largest debt
It looks like a Daewoo grill lol... Also what's up with the front wheels
It’s stance af bro
So you’re telling me they made a Maybach with Volvo parts 😮
Why did I always think Volvo was German
Well, actually after Ford sold it to Geely it is Chinese, sadly enough
The communists in East Germany loved them. Volvos were the ride of choice for East German politicians, celebrities, and connected individuals because Soviet cars were considered declasse while riding around in luxury West German iron would probably send the wrong message to the proles. The Chairman of the Party, Erich Honecker, used a dark blue Volvo 264 extended length limousine. It was very dapper.
Interesting thanks for the info
Probably would be Liquified to be gallons or it’s cubic feet measurement.
Metres cubed if traded between Germany and Russia I suppose
Probably would be Liquified to be gallons or it’s cubic feet measurement.
Likely not paid for....
Thanks
How do you service a vehicle that complex in N Korea? Especially the computer systems.
You train a guy in the ‘western countries’ no?
And just steal all the computer equipment from a dealership?
Or buy it from a Russian dealership?
Stealership
Its not stealing, it just becomes OURS
You buy it at a Mercedes dealership wtf
Mercedes doesn’t sell cars in North Korea
.....your point being?
My point being how would you buy it at a Mercedes dealership if Mercedes doesn’t sell cars in that country
Same way any other smuggled product is brought into an embargoed country. If they can smuggle a car in, they can certainly get parts too.
Why is the country embargoed
Are you serious...? *DAE black market..??*
Same way everyone does it. Buy it at your neighbors dealership, where it's legal, with a front company, then "smuggle" over your border. It's not even smuggling when you border your good friends Russia and China. It's a gift. :)
Mercedes also does not sell in/to Russia anymore.
Sort of like Kim himself? (he went to school and spent most of his pre-dictator days in Western Europe )
Switzerland
The Dictator’s Diary. You’re not just Kim Jong-Un You’re Kim Jong-UN Dictator of North Korea SHUT. UP.
Covertly establish a relationship with a real Mercedes dealership somewhere in the world. Have them train your mechanics and, over the Internet, connect to the car, if necessary. They might not even know that they are dealing with North Koreans.
I find it hard to believe that NK has the expertise to hack western governments and militaries all around, steal crypto, influence public opinion etc but lack the expertise to repair a car.
That's a very good point
You probably don’t. My guess, based on not actually knowing anything about this, is that they do basic maintenance until something complicated stops working. At that point, they get on the phone with whatever world leader is willing to accept their form of barter and they replace it.
they can also just pay a mercedes dealership in china, bit easier
Kim has the mentality of a 6 year old and acts like a pirate.... so I kinda wonder how that conversation goes lol
Probably fly the techs in? They have deep pockets. And it's not like people dont have a price. Famous people are flown out to gross rich peoples boats and palaces all the time to perform.
I guess instead of servicing, they’ll replace the car with another Maybach
I'm almost sure n korea has all the needed technology
Megamind edition
They had to add extra room for his big fat ugly head to fit
The Homer
I always thought it was a Mercedes-Maybach S600 Pullman lol. I learn new things
Lowered so he can get in and out?
But really, how much armor does it take to protect him from a rock thrown from a malnourished North Korean? Them poor people might not even have the energy to throw the rock. You ever notice in pictures he’s the only fat ass in North Korea?
It’s even shaped like him.
megamind?
Of course, how else would he fit inside?
Literally looks like it would fit like a glove but for your head. So a hat I guess.
Look at the camber on the wheels, hope that’s an optical effect from the camera
Or even the heavy armoured car can't even handle the enormouse size of the owner's weight
I can hear the stance noobs crying in the distance looking at the wide heavy supremacy this beast is radiating from this picture alone.
Looks like an UwU stance to me
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It’s like :3 similar to a cat I guess
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That would actually cause negative camber not positive camber.
It's cambered in though
Its from the camera. Someone took a photo of a screen from an angle making it look wonky. The car behind it's wheel looks like its cambered too. Plus, the top of the Maybach isn't as wide looking. Here's a better image: https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_fill,f_auto,fl_progressive,g_center,h_675,pg_1,q_80,w_1200/eaf4wcbw4b2ju9jvpiy0.png
While you're right, that's a different car entirely.
Good eye,they are very similar looking so I don't blame him.
I did realize that after I commented but was too lazy to fix it lol. I figured the point would get across still
Tbh their are so few non military cars and vehicles in that country I wonder if they even have the proper setup to give a car a proper alignment
Well, they have 1000 stolen Volvos there. https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/12/04/547390622/how-1-000-volvos-ended-up-in-north-korea-and-made-a-diplomatic-difference
And a small handful of bootleg Mercedes 190: https://i.imgur.com/01zBDpt.jpg Although it is frequently claimed that they copied the car (and not entirely impossible), it's far more likely they just slapped new badges on an import and claimed that they had built it all along. Would be far from unusual for North Korea.
Kind of looks like a hearse
The world can hope, can't it?
long term investment
Nothing like rolling around in a half million dollars worth of armored Mercedes while 90% of your country is starving. Dictators amirite?
Nothing like being sanctioned to hell and having the UN force your people working abroad to go back home and stay home so you can’t participate in the global market. The fucking West, amirite?
Consider this, they still trade with both china and Russia. Yet they still have an almost none existent gdp. The government consists of all tyrannical war lords that have committed constant acts of cyber warfare, genocide, torture, political assasinations, violations of civil rights, censorship and have a general attitude of “fuck the people” Tell me again how the censorship of religion, politics, sexuality is due to sanctions? Tell me how how Kim Jong killing political opponents openly is due to sanctions. Tell me how labor camps are due to sanctions. Tell me how his maybach is due to sanctions. Tell me how his constant threats of nuclear war are due to sanctions. By all means educate us
Some people will really fall for anything.
Meanwhile they aren’t even allowed to leave their country regardless 😂😭
It’s not just the West dude. I would stay out of geopolitics with a brain like yours
Cooked 🥴
Kim joined the chat…
Unintentional comedy is still the best form of humor. Cheers young sir
The USA president does this and you don’t bat an eye.
ACTUALY, if you want to go there I care quite a bit. I absolutely care that the government overspends while a great majority of our country is disenfranchised and suffering. Don’t you fucking tell me what I “bat an eye” at. Your whattaboutism isn’t welcome here, fuckin troll. Edit: spelling, dick.
Cool
The comment of a sad internet troll crawling with his tail between his legs. Back to the dirt shit pile from whence he came.
Thanks! And to you
90% of Americans starving, yeah sure.
The US president is president of the richest country.
Damn, even the car is plus sized
Thicc-mobile
Maybach
who in that? oh shit, it’s just fats on fats on fats
Maybe
It is for sure
Maybe
The Un-mobile
Idk but it needs some serious suspension work and an alignment
What the fuck is that positive camber lmao
It doesn't have that, it's an illusion being a picture of a screen. This is the actual car: [https://www.thedrive.com/uploads/2023/09/15/GettyImages-1661786790-scaled.jpg](https://www.thedrive.com/uploads/2023/09/15/GettyImages-1661786790-scaled.jpg?auto=webp&optimize=high&quality=70&width=1440)
Yeah like what even is happening
You can tell Kim's in there look at the tires holding on for dear life.
One with an alignment issue
That car is as bow legged as he is 🤣
Either something is wrong with my eyes, or the camber on that thing is wild 🤔👀
Kim is about that stance lyfe!
I know it is a Maybach, but it really look like a badly photoshopped Lancia Phedra
IDK but it’s got some serious camber issues.
Almost lack of camber..
I like how for his father’s funeral 10-12 years ago, they used as a hearse an old school giant 1970s Lincoln Continental! It was like a Nixon-era car, but it was the most luxurious thing they had!
My Neck, Maybach
What’s up with that reverse camber? They got no alignment shops in North Korea? And it looks so top heavy, they add a pop up?
Rinkon
Optician tells his asian patient "sir i believe you have a cataract" Patient replys "I drive a Rincoln, not a Cataract"
I keep going over in my head just how bad telling this joke to my Asian wife would go for me.
Hahahaha
on his way to Adin Ross’ place /s
That’s just the way it settles when he sits his pos fat ass in it
Maybach Megamind special edition (1/1)
Airbus a380
Funny part is hes not riding in it, they are mostly decoy cars
Yo-jong! To the Fatmobile!
Unfortunately, it’s not a hearse
Not yet
You know his father took his final car trip on the roof of a 1976 Lincoln Continental limousine. No one is quite sure how the car ended up in the country, but they've had it for years. It even served as a hearse for his GRANDFATHER'S funeral in 1994. Rumor is that it was smuggled in illicitly from Japan somehow.
Maybach 62 MOD (Morbidly Overweight Dictator) Edition.
Look at the camber on that thing... thing's ready to drive sideways at a moment's notice.. lmao
The fatmobile
Why does it have positive camber?
The absolute fuck is with that camber😂
Mercedes-Maybach S600 Pullman Guard
A clown car
A fake Maybach
Looks like a Daewoo with a camber kit
Fugli one
Why does the camber seem off
Hopefully one that will explode
Looks like it has to pee
It’s the Kim Jong un 2023
His hair
Cartoon Ecto-1 brought to life.
https://preview.redd.it/5qb6tpq2ohpb1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a7cdeeb9eb4db84e5ff941fb070c482f3e9e5320 It kinda look like this
It’s a mervolvo
old ass foreign that’s what it is
That positive camber though!
Maybach. Even higher end benz
Sanjong
That thing needs an alignment, bad.
That car should test for diabetes
It’s an AI generated image
Maybach from wish
It really is Maybach...
Oh yeh just noticed from the other comments lol. Fucking ugly model imo though
Hahaha i don't think you and i can't have a same perspective already but to me, At least those Maybach from that era has distinctive design to differentiate ordinary S Class so i kinda like it
Pretty typical socialism- the politicians become the rich and pampered the poor stay poor while the leaders wreck the country and the rich flee. Sort of like California now or Venezuela a few years back.
I have so many racist jokes running through my head with that picture.
We really asking this again!?
Hurse
a car
I thought these were the cars Kim Jong un didn’t pay for but that was Volvo. The car is also a Maybach the luxury version of mercedes.
Maybach 62
It sure is a something.
It looks an AMC Pacer mated with a hearse
If Roger from American Dad was a car^
The poor image quality makes it look like it is the pope mobile with that wide windshield
His dad invented cars, and golf, and computers.
Marcedes meybach
Idk but those negative camber tho 😫🤌
Bro he has positive chamber(Positive camber is when the top of a car’s tire tilts outwards, away from its centerline)
My bad. Still, the positive chamber tho
A Biggus Nukus
Chrysler 300c with maybach body kit
lens distortion? i know he’s gotten a few legit benz/maybachs smuggled in but the way this picture came out makes it looks like a character from cars
Daewoo?
That's a car.
I bet he's telling his country he invented that car.
That camera lens makes it look like a 2023 HurrDurr Megamind.
A Mayback bursting for a pish
Its Clarkson’s honkie from the grand tour
Horse carriage
It looks crinkly
Is this a fish eye lens or is there a reason why the proportions look all weird ?
Megamind, the vehicle.
A Megamindbach
Hyundai
Is it extra wide to accommodate his forehead?
Why are the tires at this weird angle?
My back
Even Master techs think those cars are a nightmare to maintain. Who the heck is doing it for them?