How To Buy A Car in Japan - (They love the EUROS) MIGHTY MODS VIDEO

[OEM G60]

I love how people are expecting a forester or a liberty in the youtube comments yet have no understanding of the 15 year rule for imports.

Whats the 15 year rule, i've never seen it?

[team_v]

Whats the 15 year rule, i've never seen it?

From memory, it states that a car model that was sold in Australia may not be imported from overseas unless the owner lived in the country for a year or the model is older than 15 years.

There is a thread here about it:

http://forums.fastfours.com.au/showthread.php?t=15668

[OEM G60]

I'm pretty sure its not a 15 year rule, the rule applies to personal imports, a car can be imported if it is pre '89 without owning it overseas for the minimum of 12 months. Cars newer than that come over if you've owned it and been in the same country as it for the 12 months (like my rado).

Do Japenese cars come over under the SEVS? (Specialist Enthusiasts Vehicle Scheme) as long as they are on the SEVS list and there is a RAW (Registered Automotive Workshop) that has the rights to make them compliant to ADR's (Australian Design Rules). To become a RAW can cost big time, the government may want to do crash tests etc, can cost tens of thousands, the Corrado (the only VW on SEVS) sits on the SEVS list but nobody would put up that kind of coin for the RAW rights to it, as there is no great call for them in Australia.

This is how i understand it all to work anyway, but i think that some of the newer cars already are compliant to ADRs(??), as in maybe a car that is already sold here in Australia gets the OK straight away, and works out to be alot cheaper buying it overseas??

I hope the next part of the vid explains about what needs to be done to get a Japenese import registered, and if its under SEVS or something else.

Its intersting stuff, can't believe how cheap some of these cars go for over there, i'd love to go and have a look around Japan one day, looks awesome.

[gareth_oau]

I thinks its a large joke, and a form of 'protectionism' that requires cars to be crash tested here.

I have heard that in the near future our local authorities will rely on international crash tests instead, which hopefully means will we see a lot more low volume cars being brought in

[blue_reality]

I'm pretty sure its not a 15 year rule, the rule applies to personal imports, a car can be imported if it is pre '89 without owning it overseas for the minimum of 12 months. Cars newer than that come over if you've owned it and been in the same country as it for the 12 months (like my rado).

Do Japenese cars come over under the SEVS? (Specialist Enthusiasts Vehicle Scheme) as long as they are on the SEVS list and there is a RAW (Registered Automotive Workshop) that has the rights to make them compliant to ADR's (Australian Design Rules). To become a RAW can cost big time, the government may want to do crash tests etc, can cost tens of thousands, the Corrado (the only VW on SEVS) sits on the SEVS list but nobody would put up that kind of coin for the RAW rights to it, as there is no great call for them in Australia.

This is how i understand it all to work anyway, but i think that some of the newer cars already are compliant to ADRs(??), as in maybe a car that is already sold here in Australia gets the OK straight away, and works out to be alot cheaper buying it overseas??

I hope the next part of the vid explains about what needs to be done to get a Japenese import registered, and if its under SEVS or something else.

Its intersting stuff, can't believe how cheap some of these cars go for over there, i'd love to go and have a look around Japan one day, looks awesome.

That basically sums it up. The next video will have more info on how it actually gets registered and complied to meet our ADR.

You can buy any car you want really. And you can ship any car you want.

For example the brand new R35GTR in Australia is around $160,000. Over in Japan we saw them at the auctions for $45,000 and were told we could bring them in no problems in terms of ADR. The problem is Nissan who have threatened to sue anyone who tries to bring one in here instead of paying the extra $100,000 here.

We just bought a new camera for Mighty Mods. Was $10,000 in Australia. I found it in the US for 50% the price but of the 20 shops I called and emailed, only one would agree to sell it to me and post it. The rest said that JVC Australia would cancel their selling rights if they sold product into areas where they can charge more.

[tooch]

For example the brand new R35GTR in Australia is around $160,000. Over in Japan we saw them at the auctions for $45,000 and were told we could bring them in no problems in terms of ADR. The problem is Nissan who have threatened to sue anyone who tries to bring one in here instead of paying the extra $100,000 here.

What grounds do they have for suing someone for that?

Surely it's better that somebody buys one overseas if the alternative is not buying one at all cos they can't afford it.

[gareth_oau]

Nissan are purely using scare tactics.

Problem is, even if you are legally correct, the one with the deepest pockets often wins.

I wonder if you were to share that information with the ACCC, what their views would be? it seems very anti-TPA