Watch Over £4 Million Of Luxury Cars Get Crushed By The Philippines

The Philippines is trying to combat corruption across the country, and illegal car imports have made it to centre-stage courtesy of the government's brutal response
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We’re not sure we have the words to describe how we feel after watching this video. The president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, has just ordered about £4.2 million worth of luxury and sports cars to be destroyed. This is the footage.

Apparently he rather dislikes expensive cars being smuggled into his country in an attempt to dodge the nation’s extremely painful tax regime. It has become a symbol of the corruption he is trying to fight, and he sure as hell makes a statement out of his response.

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Any model worth over £57500 in the UK – using the exchange rates as we write this – is slapped with a nasty 50 per cent tax bill on the value of the car. Electric cars are exempt, while hybrids only pay 50 per cent of the usual tax rate.

This doesn’t just create a society that actively discourages ownership of nice internal combustion-fuelled cars; it also drives up illegal imports. The government’s rebuttal is to drive an array of construction equipment over them while the CT office falls silent apart from the soft thuds of tears hitting desks.

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The latest batch of 68 cars could have been sold to overseas buyers; the proceeds helping to boost the parliamentary coffers and keeping the cars on the road in the process. Some are rare, some are classics, and some are so special that it should be a crime to even lay a finger on them in anger. Strangely, though, the models in this footage are all old. There’s not a new car in sight. If any CTzens can explain the anomaly, let us know.

Try not to cry as you watch the likes of a Lamborghini Gallardo, many Porsche 911s, several old Mercedes and more get crushed into scrap. Apparently, Duterte has also crushed a BMW Z1 before now. We feel like he might not make our Christmas card list.

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Anonymous

Sad racts only

08/01/2018 - 16:15 |
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TurboToddler (Straight-five)

These are the only things I see online that genuinely make me mad, almost as much a news of terrorism and such

08/01/2018 - 16:15 |
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CannedRex24

Me rn in a public place

08/01/2018 - 16:21 |
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CannedRex24

Why was there no new car in sight?

Cause those people had taste

08/01/2018 - 16:23 |
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cause the Philippine law prohibits the importation of used cars.

08/02/2018 - 16:52 |
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Aaron 15

FFS, to anyone thinking about importing a car: please do it legally!!

Shame on the president also for not making things any better.

08/01/2018 - 16:23 |
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Government could probably have auctioned it legally

Like how people in the USA do for old Police stuff

08/01/2018 - 16:27 |
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Anonymous

Jesus Christ.

08/01/2018 - 16:24 |
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Anonymous

punishing the perpetrators rather than wrecking illegal car would’ve been a better solution

08/01/2018 - 16:26 |
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Andrew 28

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Or selling the cars

08/01/2018 - 16:28 |
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HinaXOX

Well,the Home Country of my mom ,THIS IS THE REASON WHY WE LIVE IN GERMANY !!!!!!!

08/01/2018 - 16:28 |
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Still worse than the US

08/02/2018 - 14:22 |
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Jopel

Surely a better response would of been to sell the cars for export to another country and use the money from that to put to good use in their own country ?

08/01/2018 - 16:31 |
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CannedRex24

In reply to by Jopel

Honestly that’s what they’d want

But how’s that gonna make a point?

08/01/2018 - 16:33 |
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Anonymous

In reply to by Jopel

Best idea ever

08/01/2018 - 19:33 |
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Anonymous

In reply to by Jopel

Exactly. Duterte is acting kinda like an anti car guy

08/02/2018 - 11:15 |
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Daksh Pat

In reply to by Jopel

or use them in their police force :O

08/02/2018 - 13:46 |
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Anonymous

In reply to by Jopel

They do that in my state…if ur car is built…or illegal and its impounded you get to watch the police crush it

08/02/2018 - 14:22 |
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Anonymous

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

08/01/2018 - 16:33 |
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