Old cars will be banned soon.
It is official now in UAE. So most likely it will become here official soon. Here are the details:
Vehicles older than 20 years will be banned from the UAE’s roads from January, the Ministry of Interior announced on Sunday.
A senior official at the ministry said licences for light vehicles manufactured before 1988 would not be renewed after January, while the import of cars manufactured five years earlier would be banned, UAE daily Khaleej Times reported on Monday.
Colonel Ghaith Al Zaabi, director general of the Federal Traffic and Patrol Department, said the decision was aimed at regulating licensing of light and heavy vehicles with the objective of reducing traffic, and to protect the environment from the emissions.
Licences of cars manufactured 15 years ago would also not be renewed from January 2010, he added.
The decision also bans transfer of licence of vehicles aged more than 10 years.
However, vintage and classic cars have been exempted from the new rules, if they fulfil technical requirements, he said.
According to Ministry of Interior's statistics, the UAE has 1.8 million vehicles of different makes and manufacturing years. Import of used light vehicles would be allowed if it is not more than five years old or not more than seven years old for heavy vehicles.
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My poor dad n his 25 year old Volvo...which is still in running condition by the way!!
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rollsroyce level of cars... well indeed that inflation is eating us up right now because way back in 1995, you can find this rolls royce just bein park in the desert....
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here soon and model b4 90s will be banned all.
the date they give last year was October2008 or 2009 i dont remember that now.
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ANd that's everywhere in the world
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How will they be catagorized..
what i know it is now part of the new traffic law that took effect last year. however the banning of old vehicles (i think they put it at 15 yrs old vehicle) would take effect on 2009 here in Doha.
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it was since 1995 from UAE that any car which is more than ten years old should no longer run in the roads... i wonder why it is only now that it was officially declared....
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