Importing a new car from Japan - Landcruiser 70 series
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MajorMantra said:
If that was in reply to me, you're answering a different question. I meant "the buying the car part" not "buying parts", if you get my (Tokyo) drift.
Oh whoops my apologies, I'm not sure about buying new but used is “find car -> get inspected-> bid & win -> transport to docks & get deregistered -> ship -> make UK legal -> drive happy”. For new I imagine it’s going to be the same but the finding car to dereg part is much longer. Bumps in the road could be the way you buy cars in Japan and you might have to accept a 1-owner car. Way back when TorqueGT did have something about new cars but it’s gone now. MajorMantra said:
If that was in reply to me, you're answering a different question. I meant "the buying the car part" not "buying parts", if you get my (Tokyo) drift.
You can do it yourself, my dad's bought a couple of cars that way. The descriptions are generally fairly accurate, if anything they're often better than described. Much easier to go through an importer based over here though, all the good ones will have someone on the payroll in Japan to actually lay eyes on stuff. You'll pay more obviously but you've got piece of mind and most of them will do all the registering, IVA,SVA or whatever we're calling it this week etc.
Don't grey imports under 10 years? i think, old require a serious type approval inspection process, much more involved than the typical test of older vehicles, likely to cost half as much again as the vehicle itself.
I've looked at these new 70 series, they don't seem much different to my '93 regd 70 series, never had any trouble with parts etc mainly because they generally only ever need service and friction parts, suspension etc upgrades would likely be sourced from Australia, any standard parts you could get from Amayama.
I've looked at these new 70 series, they don't seem much different to my '93 regd 70 series, never had any trouble with parts etc mainly because they generally only ever need service and friction parts, suspension etc upgrades would likely be sourced from Australia, any standard parts you could get from Amayama.
Smint said:
Don't grey imports under 10 years? i think, old require a serious type approval inspection process, much more involved than the typical test of older vehicles, likely to cost half as much again as the vehicle itself.
You're right under 10years old is a more extensive approval than anything over. I'm quite interested in this as I'm looking as possibly getting a new Crown under 10yrs old. Torque-GT, who are known to be pricer, seem to depend on the car, they have a GR86 for £28k when on Goo-net there's another Red one with fewer km's at £19k** so a £10k uplift. But then they have a S660 Alpha for £16k but on goo-net another Alpha with fewer km's is only £13k** so much more palatable increase.
'**I haven't included any shipping and I've just converted the goo-net dealer prices.
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