A competition and exhibition of modern cars from the German manufacturer BMW took place at theEl Salado beach, west of the Cuban capital.
The meeting, which was part of the activities carried out there by the 'Friends of the Motor' club, served as an opportunity for several owners of these high-end cars to exhibit their performance.
Several BMW models participated in the event, causing the admiration of the dozens of people who gathered there, as could be seen in the Instagram publication oftaxiracing_cuba.
El Salado beach has a tennis court, a golf course and, according to the official mediaThe Artemiseño, “one of the few karting tracks in Latin America.” It is located on the northern coast of the country, 13 kilometers from Caimito, a town in the Artemisa province.
It was attended by fans of the motor world and the owners of these luxurious vehicles that, with increasing frequency,They are sighted on the streets and highways of Cuba.
The club "Friends of the engine”, which brings together a group of Cubans who love this type of racing, usually carries out exhibition and competition activities in this town in the Artemisa province, as well as in the La Tropical Gardens.
In February 2016, the club's president,Hendy Cobas, argued that in Cuba an automobile movement had been carried out from the roots, a revolution of the motor, to such an extent thatThe pilots were already acquiring the category of athletes.
Your vice president,Ariel Camacho, owner of a Lada and Moskvitch accessories workshop, stated last July, during a race held on an old airstrip in San Nicolás de Bari, thatThey were trying to take racing off public roads to avoid accidents.
During 2023, the Cuban regime imported cars of various types from the United Statesworth almost 10 million dollars, according to statistics from the US-Cuba Economic and Trade Council (USCTEC).
In April of last year, the United States Department of the Treasurygranted licenses to Miami businessmen to ship cars, trucks, tractors and even trailers to self-employed workers in Cuba.
The license is for 10 million dollars and only allows shipping to self-employed workers, not to Cuban government agencies.
In recent times, Cubans have reported with surprise on the networks sightings of lots of imported cars, as well asMercedes Benz, Audis, Toyotas or BMWs that dot the geography of a country where inequalities are increasingly widening.
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