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"Elephants aren&amp;#039;t the only beasts that search for a secret, almost holy place to die. That&amp;#039;s also the case for old Land Rovers, because at some point in time, they all seem to end up in the Cameron Highlands. There&amp;#039;s probably no other place in the world where one can see so many old English SUVs as these green and rolling hills in Malaysia. And nowhere else are they in such miserable shape. Paint already chipped, aluminum bodies bent and holed, windows blind or busted out, seats covered with moss and mud\u2014they rumble along until the ravages of time knock them down and their last trip ends unceremoniously on the side of the road. Dozens upon dozens wait there until nature overgrows the wrecks and only bare sheetmetal looks out from the jungle. \u2028 While the scenery may remind Land Rover fans of the mysterious elephant graveyards in the African savannah, the reason this place boasts what&amp;#039;s probably the world&amp;#039;s largest density of old Land Rovers is a tax law that applies specifically the high country, around three hours north of Kuala Lumpur. Farmers in the economically weak region get a break and pay only 10 percent road tax for their cars. There&amp;#039;s just one condition: The vehicles must be used for agricultural purposes and must not leave the Cameron Highlands. That&amp;#039;s why they all have &amp;quot;CH&amp;quot; painted in big, bright letters on their doors or bonnets.  &amp;quot;If you look for a car to meet this regulation, there is only one: a Land Rover,&amp;quot; says Yamin Rong, a farmer who just drove his old and worn-out Series II from his farm to the market in Tanah Rata, the capital of the district. &amp;quot;The British have left us thousands of these old workhorses, so you can buy them for little money. The Land Rover is indestructible, goes everywhere and beyond, and there&amp;#039;s almost nothing you can&amp;#039;t carry with it.&amp;quot; A drive downtown on market days makes clear the role Land Rovers play here. They come off the hills in hundreds\u2014pickups packed head over ears with fruit\u2014so many that they dominate the streetscape of Tanah Rata more than the VW Golf does in any European city. Authorities estimate the vehicle fleet to contain around 7000 Land Rovers.  &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s a bigger number than the number of inhabitants of Tanah Rata,&amp;quot; farmer Rong says.  In the time he&amp;#039;s owned it, Rong&amp;#039;s Series II has never seen a true Land Rover workshop. Not because the car hasn&amp;#039;t had problems, mind you, but simply because there&amp;#039;s no official Land Rover representation in the Cameron Highlands.  &amp;quot;They repair everything themselves,&amp;quot; says German Land Rover expert Dag Rogge, who has organized dozens of auto-adventure tours in Malaysia. &amp;quot;On the side of the road or in a Nissen hut, they get almost every car going again,&amp;quot; he acknowledges. And they don&amp;#039;t need any spare parts for that. The locals just take what they need from the other wrecks that are rusting along the road\u2014engines from Nissan, transmissions from Mitsubishi, steering wheels from Honda, and so on.  &amp;quot;If it doesn&amp;#039;t fit, we just use a bigger hammer,&amp;quot; Rong says.  And what happens when one of these dinosaurs finally conks out? The owner just leaves it where it is and tries to find a new one. That&amp;#039;s an easy task, actually. There are still thousands of Defenders available in the region, since Land Rover established its own factory in the country to avoid the immense import and luxury taxes in Malaysia.  Several hundred local Defenders are built every year, says Nick Fitt, head of the service department for the local distributor. &amp;quot;The supplies for the Cameron Highlands are thus secured.&amp;quot;  Thanks to this, the graveyards in the hills should have no shortage of corpses in the foreseeable future. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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