Import duty from Japan to be removed

[Setanta]

Back in the day Toyota would not touch grey imports, some dealers still won't touch them

Which I find quite funny - I'm used to being screwed over by Honda Australia with my Aussie spec ITR but when I owned a JDM EF9 Civic SiR, they went out of their way to source genuine parts for me that were cheaper than parts for an Aussie spec ED6 :D

[irsa76]

My car (2012 jeep) has a Cigarette lighter plug at the back that is not connected to the ignition.. works anytime..

Accessory power socket, NOT cigarette lighter. Power sockets can run constant power, the cigarette lighter on the dash/console are ignition switched. Found that my Voyager and Rav4, the Citroen has the lighter and the power socket, both standard and USB, ignition switched.

[teamtoken]

I heard (possible rumour) that porsche offers a 3 year worldwide warranty on all their cars, anyone know if true?

Can get a cayman with with a heap options for about 90k in the UK. Similar spec is about 190k here

[plz_2_pimphomo]

I heard (possible rumour) that porsche offers a 3 year worldwide warranty on all their cars, anyone know if true?

Quick google seems to say it's true. Warranty can be claimed at any Porsche dealer around the world.

[rj_astra]

I assume the LCT will apply to the "near new" parallel imports?

For Porsche (UK)

Porsche New Car Guarantee
Every new Porsche (EU) comes with a two year New Car Guarantee with unlimited mileage, valid all around the world and provides comprehensive bumper to bumper coverage against all manufacturing defects. There is no substitute for a comprehensive warranty backed directly by the Porsche Factory in Stuttgart.

Additional warranty after that 2yr period run at about $1500 per year (UK) on a Cayman.

[smellytofu]

ADRs are already mostly harmonised with EU regs. For any particular ADR there will be a alternate reg (EU or US) that is satisfactory.
Removing ADRs wouldn't reduce prices.... look at the USA. Their design rules differ to ours and the EU (bumper strength, lights, side markers, emissions standards) - yet car prices their are low (even for imports)

Key word. "Mostly" which is still enough to stop some getting here. The child restraint anchorage (CRA) can sometimes be a struggle point and it did stop one of my pet vehicles from being made available to Australia all because of a fucking CRA point. Plus we knew there was only 1 year left in the production cycle and there will be no replacement for this vehicle so they couldn't be fucked throwing development money just for a few hundred sale of what is a cracking car.

Car in question
http://www.caradvice.com.au/65996/to...ive-engineers/

[Bob Vegana.]

They have ISOfix as standard.

You'd think that since it's now been approved, itd suffice.

[smellytofu]

They have ISOfix as standard.

You'd think that since it's now been approved, itd suffice.

My understanding is that the ADR still has a strength rating for the top tether and the ISOFIX doesn't specify one (this was a few years before ISOFIX was even formally made legal which is why I can speak about this many years after the fact). I'm not 100% sure of the full details but that was what held the car back. Business case didn't stack up anyway which was a real shame. But now some TAFE boffins are driving around in a car I had heaps of fun in. Albeit it was given to them with a crunchy gearbox.

[MRMOPARMAN]

Key word. "Mostly" which is still enough to stop some getting here. The child restraint anchorage (CRA) can sometimes be a struggle point and it did stop one of my pet vehicles from being made available to Australia all because of a fucking CRA point. Plus we knew there was only 1 year left in the production cycle and there will be no replacement for this vehicle so they couldn't be fucked throwing development money just for a few hundred sale of what is a cracking car.

Car in question
http://www.caradvice.com.au/65996/to...ive-engineers/

wait up.. one of your favorite cars, is a 1.8L yaris?

[rj_astra]

There was never , as I understand it, a EU requirement for a upper tether mount for ISOFIX seats in the EU. So you got seats that relied on a foot to stabilise them.
That was never going to fly here or in the USA (LATCH is equivalent to ISOFIX and top tether).



I don't remember there ever going to be a 1.8L yaris - anywhere.

[Captiva Fan]

You've only got to see the popularity of certain imports to realise that manufacturers have made some foolish oversights.

There wouldn't be too many models worth the effort of importing, and which weren't.
For example, how many of the same Australians who've ever bought a JZA80 would've bought one at $80k+?
How many people who've ever had an R34 GT25T (I think that badge is wrong - but you know what I mean) who'd have paid $65k+ for one?

There'd be a few cars where mistakes were made; but not that many, not wih having to comply to ADR's of course ...

I assume the LCT will apply to the "near new" parallel imports?

Aren't Caymans & 911's (dunno about the rest of the drek they make) quite a fair bit cheaper there, despite then having higher VAT than our GST, and even if you apply LCT on top of what they pay?

[rj_astra]

There'd be a few cars where mistakes were made; but not that many, not wih having to comply to ADR's of course ...

During the 80s/90s one of the biggest hurdles for importing cars here would have been emission regs.
We went down the US path in that regards. Standardised low octane (91RON) unleaded fuel. Far too expensive to develop engines for our market alone. So we usually got the same engine range as the USA/Canada. It wasn't until 95RON fuel was widely available (and the EU went unleaded) that it became far easier for a manufacturers introduce performance models here (and USA) that didn't suffer power drops compared to Europe.

[smellytofu]

Import duty from Japan to be removed

wait up.. one of your favorite cars, is a 1.8L yaris?

When the fleet consisted of at best, TRD Aurion and ISF constantly being hogged by the big wigs, it was what the "plebs" had ... This was a hoot to drive. Seats were vastly different (shapely this side of IS-F), suspension was a fraction more compliant than an Integra Type R and loads of torque, it was a fun car for the city. I guess the same formula as the Barina SRi with a LOT stiffer suspension.

As for one of my favourite, yeah, 1.8 Yaris would be on my list.

The car was built in France sold in the EU market so had the EU quirks like left hand indicators and front seat ISOFIX and front passenger airbag disable switch.

It's a one off import in Australia.

[Sturmovik]

I would have thought the V6 Corolla 'Blade Master G' would have been more interesting than a 1.8 Yaris.
Although its been proven time and time again that hi-po Toyota models are never successfull here

[TJ Shermuz]

Reading the comments what the guy is saying is, while safety standards may not be 100% the same, its fair to assume that safety standards for regions like europe on less than three month old cars are close enough if not better.

Which sounds like remarkable common sense for a government committee.