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What about your Porsche in the Falklands? As soon as I bought the house in Fox Bay, I played with the idea of bringing a Cayenne to the Falklands. People said I was crazy. In the Falkands, they don't talk about cars, they talk about 'vehicles'. That shows you how little importance a Falklander attaches to the look of their transportation. But turning the dream into a reality was not easy. It was a long search for the right second-hand car. It's absurd to buy a brand new car to use in the Falklands, where you're constantly driving off-road. But because you are going to be using the car in difficult conditions, there are certain things you have to have. The Cayenne had to have air suspension and an interlocking system for the tires. The steering wheel also had to be on the right-hand side. I finally found the perfect Cayenne in England. It boarded a boat in Southampton in June 2018 and arrived in Stanley at the beginning of August. The very first Porsche on the Falklands had arrived! How high is the import tax? There isn't one. That applies to all products imported into the Falklands. All you pay is the freight charge. There's no fuel tax, either. Fuel costs only half of what it does in Sweden. Is it true that there's only one gas station on all of the Falklands? Yeah, just in Stanley. In Fox Bay there is a kind of petrol facility. Not a gas station with controls, but just a few pumps. If you live in Fox Bay, you get an individual key and you can use it as needed. The invoice is sent at the end of the month. It's a simple system but it works well. For people who don't live near Stanley or Fox Bay, it's not easy to get fuel. On the main islands, East and West Falkland, the delivery can still be done by truck, but all of the other islands have to rely on delivery by ship. There's a small supply ship that sails to all of the islands. But hey, this is the Falklands. Just driving to the gas station isn't part of the deal, but in exchange, you get completely unspoiled nature.