THE metallic-green Accord sedan needed only one minute to find a parking place on the road in the Al-Naim District in Jeddah. The owner, a short Indonesian male, soon stepped down from the driver's seat. "Here cars are cheap. At home there's another one, to be used by my relatives when they go to the shop," he said then.

Compared to the situation in our country, motorized vehicle prices in Saudi Arabia are only half the prices there