The majority of the vehicles come from the United States, and it seems that many of them are going to Russia.
There are numerous open-air parking lots on the dusty outskirts of Rustavi, an industrial town located 20 kilometers (12 miles) southeast of Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia.
It has thousands of cars for sale and is the size of more than 40 football fields.
Almost any car you could ever want is available, including Mercedes, Porsches, Jaguars, Toyotas, and, more lately, Teslas. All of them are present.
Caucasus Auto Import (CAI), a business that purchases used automobiles from US auctions, owns one of the biggest parking lots.
American insurance companies have frequently written off the cars due to their severe crash damage.
CAI’s “team of experts” in the United States will personally pick up the cars and schedule their transportation by container ship 10,000 kilometers (6,000 miles) to a port on Georgia’s Black Sea coastline. Georgian mechanics will then repair the damaged vehicles.
“Our organization has made significant contributions to the modernization of the Georgian automobile fleet,” states David Gulashvili, deputy chief executive of CAI. “The entire Georgian automobile infrastructure, including [Soviet brands] Lada and Vaz, was manufactured in the Soviet Union when we first opened for commerce in 2004.
