MatteoBassini

They sell either way whether they try or not. This is because demand for cars is still very high, just that a lot of people cannot afford.

Why bother selling to you, an annoying negotiator, when people who don't negotiate at all happily accept the sticker price at 10% interest per year?

For me a great bike is nothing if dealership support doesn't exist. Given the choice I'd also avoid imported bikes.

You get in an accident once on these things and you're in for a lot of headache, and that's when you wished you didn't buy a KTM. I got in a serious accident with my CB650F, two pages worth of parts needed replacing and it was fixed within 2 weeks by Bigwing Rayong.

If you live in India, Duke 390 is an incredible bike for the money, you can't walk straight without bumping into KTM spare parts there. But in Thailand? I'll stick to the mainstream brands.

2 hours ago, eisfeld said:

Seeing still no trace of motorbikes at BMW Millenium Phuket so I decided to call them up. Was a bit of a rough start to get someone to speak a few words of english. The third person understood roughly what I wanted but couldn't answer the question if they were selling motorcycles or not (...), they said they would ask someone from BMW Motorrad to call me back. A few hours later someone did call back, again someone who spoke barely any english but enough to tell me that in 2 months they plan to have a showroom for motorbikes. It'll be 6 months then since the old one closed and customers were left in the dry.

BMW sells more bikes than Ducati yet less dealers. Quite confusing.

This doesn't even exist in rumors.

Only the 150 was unveilved.

On 7/10/2019 at 6:06 PM, OneMoreFarang said:

I guess I = Injection = No carburetor.

That is fine if all works fine but you won't be able to change any settings which are easy to change on a bike with carburetor.

So if you consider changing anything like a different exhaust, etc. that might be a lot easier on a carburetor bike.

There's seriously NOTHING good about a vehicle having a carburetor. You can change the mapping of a fuel injected bike, which is a million times more accurate than a carburetor.

I rode a CBR150 with a carburetor for 3 years and I will never go back.

Why are you necroing...

3 hours ago, Assurancetourix said:

Chiang Mai - january 2015 - Lumix FZ200 ; this car belongs to a farang ;

there are maybe less than 5 cars like that in Thailand;

it's a Mitsuoka Himiko - about 4 million baht - 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsuoka_Himiko

 

 

Great thing about this car (and other Mitsuokas really) is that it's based on the NC MX-5. So the Mitsuoka brand may be gone in Thailand but it's still easy and cheap to maintain.

What a necro

One2car has few rare and unusual cars for sale.

A diplomat car for sale. It's the Japan-made 2007 Toyota Camry 2.4G. https://www.one2car.com/en/for-sale/toyota-camry-g-bangkok-metropolitan-pinklao-borommaratchachonnani-road/5708666

A Volvo ambulance for sale. 1996 Volvo 965. https://www.one2car.com/en/for-sale/volvo-965-ambulance-bangkok-metropolitan-ratchadaphisek-huai-khwang-lat-phrao-phetchaburi/3850635

On 1/18/2019 at 7:10 PM, xcell said:

I am trying to find a EV since 2 years and besides „will“ „soon“ and „in 2020“ I actually have not heard much about EV‘s in Thailand, except that the import taxes are hilarious...

Does someone know which one is available atm?

Nissan Leaf 1,990,000 baht

Hyundai Ioniq 1,790,000 baht

12 hours ago, goegoe said:

hello, what is the situation with importers now ?

I plan to change the Benz and wonder if I should go to an official dealer as usual or look for importers ?

Thank you.

I heard Pegasus Autohaus services the vehicles of the government like the highway patrol cars, motorcycles, and "special" vehicles used in escorts like S-classes.

Classic case of the girl that can't forget her ex-boyfriend. Just give up, there's no hope for this girl, if she can't move on now, she never will.

AF/BB.

On 2/17/2018 at 8:39 AM, action said:

"I'm going to move to an exotic country and then bitch and moan that their culture doesn't abide by my personal opinions on things. " 

 

Maybe the OP should ride his bike back to his home country.  

 

I'm a Thai citizen and I share the same opinion.

Your argument is now redundant. Which means it doesn't matter in the first place whether or not the person expressing the opinion is Thai.

The OP would have either seen a BB gun, or a shotgun.

While researching gun laws in Thailand, I was surprised that shotguns are also legal for regular citizens to own. They're even cheaper than pistols.

If you didn't know what this is, you would think it's a "black rifle" that is now infamous in the US. But it's not an AR-15, it's a Derya Mk12, a Turkish made 12-gauge shotgun. Similar shotguns like this are also popular in Thailand, like the Saiga-12. As far as I've researched, full-auto shotguns are also legal (they are treated no differently from pump-action shotguns or semi-auto shotguns in the law).

She seems keen on abandoning her and the worst that can happen (which happened to me when my parents divorced), is that her mother can remove her from the tabian baan without anyone's permission, which would work in your girlfriend's favor.

I'm no legal expert, but if a child whether minor or not wants to escape, the child can do so because the mother is an adult. If the mother reports her as missing, your girlfriend can tell the authorities what's going on. If this was a western country then it would be considered child abuse but I don't know about Thailand.

You need to find an expert in these sort of stuffs and have them talk to the mother and your girlfriend. I can see why your girlfriend's mother is freaking out, it's because everyone in the family is gone and the mother doesn't realize that holding her daughter too tight is actually making the daughter want to get out even more. Therefore, you need an expert to educate the mother by telling her that if she was more lenient, understanding, and not crazy, her daughter would appreciate her more and when she's older, they would be a loving family.

I own rental store/place that is part of condo in Jomtien, Pattaya.

I don't like the fact that people come in and start up a business that obviously won't be profitable or barely profitable to justify opening up such business. Currently, it's a massage parlor, unless they start hiring Russian models as masseuse, this place won't be scoring any high cash flows. So as a result, they can't even afford the rent sometimes let alone not pay on time. And because it is really difficult to find a tenant, I have to bite the bullet and deal with being given 5,000 baht less than standard rental price.

If you don't see a future, if you don't like it, if you are not happy, leave.

This kind of post comes up again and again, and it's nothing but miserable old men bashing Thailand.

You have all the money and opportunity in the world to go live elsewhere, and yet, you're still here.

In my opinion, the problem is the language. A relationship between two people needs communication and understanding each other. If you can't speak proper Thai and she can't speak proper English, do you think both parties are able to portray their exact thoughts and opinions in a serious discussion/argument? I doubt it.

If I wasn't fluent in Thai, my relationship with my girlfriend wouldn't have lasted very long. It's not because we love each other for the wrong reasons, but because in a fight, we're able to speak up and express ourselves exactly how we want to. If we were both speaking a language we weren't fluent in, we wouldn't be able to express ourselves, we wouldn't understand each other, and so we'll just say "If we can't understand each other, don't know what's wrong, then how can this relationship go on?".

It's not only with your partner, but the partner's family. My girlfriend's family speaks absolutely no English at all, if I was a farang who couldn't speak any Thai, I know my time with them wouldn't have lasted at all. The family was able to see and understand what kind of man the daughter is dating, and they quickly, welcomed me as one of their own, they started calling me their son within two months. And before you say it's because of my money, they're a hi-so affluent Thai-chinese family, I come from a family of poor farmers and soldiers, so no, it's not because of that.

Would my situation been different if I wasn't able to speak Thai. I strongly believe so. Perhaps the family wouldn't even have welcomed a farang in the first place, as these kinds of families are known for only wanting someone within their caste, maybe the Thai soap operas helped me because just like the actors, I'm a lukklueng .

But like you said, everyone's situation is different (right?).

Have you guys tried using the CB500x to filter in traffic? Is it as good as the CB500f, ER6N, etc in that sense?

Thoughts? You have too much time on your hands if you have time to post such a lengthy unsolicited OP. Go study.

Thank you for your post, I am on holiday.

Hi there, I'm a student at Stamford International University and since I'm seeing a lot of people interested in studying in Thailand and the fact that this university was never once even mentioned on Thai visa forum (as far as I tried searching), I'd like to share my experiences of being a student in this university and hear from you guys if you have any experiences or opinions.

I am NOT advertising, I am NOT getting paid by the university to post this, the university does not even know the existence of this thread.

I'll give you some basic info about the university, the good things, the bad things, and small little things that make quite a difference when studying here compared to other universities.

First, some basic info

Campus areas: Rama 9 (International), Hua hin (Thai language only), and Asoke Exchange tower (Masters degree only)

Tuition fees: 54,000 baht per trimester which makes it 162,000 baht per year.

We will be focusing on the Rama 9 campus as it is the main campus and I reside there.

The good things:

No uniforms.

You can go to classes dressed however you like. The only times you must wear a uniform are in special events like orientation day, and if you're enrolled in Airline Business Management or International Hotel Management.

Small classrooms.

Classes in Stamford range from 20 people to 30 people. While it isn't small compared to some high school classes, it is really small compared to opera theater sized classrooms in many western countries.

Small campus.

This could be a bad thing for you, but to me it's a good thing. I don't want to be stuck in a college bubble, I want to see the outside world.

It's... well... international.

You go to Stamford's website, their slogan is "The Difference is Real". And they're not kidding, the difference IS real. I've taken tours around universities located in central Thailand and all of them failed to live up to the 'International' name they put on themselves, lecturers who have trouble speaking English and so they switch to Thai and making non-Thai speakers feel completely left out (and they are left out).

Does that happen in Stamford? No. The opposite, actually. One of my Thai lecturers simply refused to speak Thai and told some students to stop speaking Thai. And the students are from all over the place, it's not everyday you see a student from Mozambique, Albania, and Myanmar all sitting next to each other.

Level of English is great.

I've seen people who only had limited English speaking capabilities going into Stamford's ACP (Academic Preparation) course and coming out being able to speak English nearly like a native. And as I said earlier, the level of English in most other universities in Thailand are downright bad.

Yeah I know my writing isn't good.

Internet is good and works on every campus on the same username and password

Okay, you're probably going 'DUH', but I come from a family of farmers and soldiers, it surprised me that my username and password for the college internet worked at Hua hin campus.

There are many more good things to talk about, but let's keep the post short.

The bad things:

Small campus.

Alright, you probably want a bigger community, a haven to escape the outside world and Stamford's Rama 9 campus' two 6-story buildings just won't cut it for a lot of people and the campus too small to have any big events and sporting facilities. Since it's a small campus, this leads to my next point...

Too many cars, not enough parking space.

The parking space is absolutely horrible. How can so many students own cars? There are about 500-1,000 students each day studying from Monday to Friday (very rough estimate) and there are about 100-200 cars in the parking lot. The problem isn't unique to cars either, even motorcycles have trouble parking sometimes and I don't understand the security guards prohibiting you from parking in certain places where it shouldn't be a problem.

So if you're studying here, make sure to limit yourself to only a motorcycle if you can. You will simply be unable to park your car.

No medicine, no science, no engineering majors

The only Science major Stamford offers is Information Technology. The lack of medicine and engineering is a bad thing because Thailand has very limited medicine and engineering majors in International colleges.

No college dorms

Excited about that dorm life? Being able to just wake up 10 minutes before your class starts and being able to walk there and still won't be late? Well too bad, Stamford doesn't have any dorms. You're going to have go to one of the three apartment/condos that have special promotions for Stamford students, these apartments are about 12 km away from the college campus. So how do you get to college if you don't have private transportation? That takes me to the next point...

You're going to spending a lot of money on public transportation.

The minibuses that go from the apartments mentioned above to Stamford and vice versa aren't free. They costs 30 baht every trip so you'll be spending 60 baht each day for 3 and a half years. It's alright if you've got the cash, but college students are known to be broke as hell and 60 baht a day for transportation sounds like a fortune. To give you an idea, fuel costs for a motorcycle that i use everyday to commute to college costs me 60 baht A WEEK, and that also includes the luxury of being able to go anywhere i want without relying on other people. So.. buy a motorcycle, it's fun and cheap, it's worth dying for; literally.

Food selection is meh and expensive for the quality of the food.

80 baht for a plate of rice and fish? No thanks. I'm just going to buy a 40 baht som tam in the morning and eat it at college. Not to mention the quality is worse than 40 baht kao pat from street vendors. So just like a motorcycle, buy your own food from street vendors or cook your own.

It's in Bangkok.

Seriously, who likes Bangkok? And to make matters worse they opened an Asoke campus instead of using the money on expanding the parking lot or giving an option to people who don't want to live in Bangkok. The Hua Hin campus is great, it's in the middle of nowhere, but it doesn't have international courses. Bangkok is just not for me.

There are more bad things and I would like to hear more from you guys.

One last thing, if you're interested in this university, you can just go into one of the classes. You won't look out of place because nobody wears a uniform unless you're over 50 years old.

So, thoughts?

From my experience, you need to be there in person.

When I tried making my Thai passport, the office demanded that both my parents be present to sign everything for me (because I'm not 20 years old yet).

My mother was gone from the face of the earth when my parents divorced so only my father was present. Office said if mother is gone or dead, they needed documents to show that only one parent is able to sign everything for me with the reason that the other parent cannot be contacted or dead. This document was arranged by a lawyer.

However, since my father isn't Thai, I'm not sure how would your situation differ.

I'm not that good in biology and science but I do know that if the girl has AB, she can accept any blood type. So what am I missing here?

If you're looking purely to save money then your potential savings per month are around 40,000. That is if you live in a 4,000 baht per month apartment.

However, with 65,000 per month you can comfortably live anywhere in Thailand. But you didn't state a specific province/city in Thailand so I'm going to assume it's Bangkok. In the middle of Bangkok you can rent nice apartments raging from 15,000 a month to 25,000 a month. But 4,000 baht a month apartments in the outskirts of Bangkok aren't slums, you're paying for the privilege of easy travelling and being close to the CBD.

Buying food to last you 5 days from the supermarket/markets can cost you around 300 baht to 1,000 baht depending if you're buying local products or imported products.

You WILL be using an aircon when you're in Thailand and if you leave it on for 20 hours a day your electricity bill can reach 3,000 baht to 5,000 baht a month.

WellThais put ketchup on pizza....

And people in Holland and Belgium put mayo on their chips, so whats your point ? Other than a very feeble attempt at Thai bashing which you failed at completely:rolleyes:

Pizza has tomato. Ketchup has tomato. Why are you bringing up chips with mayo? Chips are made of potatoes. Mayo isn't made of potatoes.