Import duty from Japan to be removed

[Roadsailing]

speaking of shit cars from Japan I'd want a yaris q as per

[cracka]

Didnt Nissan refuse to sell GTR parts without a ADM VIN?

I never fully understood this either, aside from maybe not having stock for ADM GTR owners; but that could easily be made up for in having a larger share of cars to identify service and replacement components to offer a better service to ADM owners anyway.

Unless it was to somehow protect their maxima sales :knock:

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speaking of shit cars from Japan I'd want a yaris q as per

Pffft. Zif Toyota rebadging an Aston Martin was ever going to work. #whatthefuckwhereastonthinking.

[smellytofu]

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

Handled like a dog being so front heavy but that's from ex-colleagues experience. Plus it cost a bomb.

[Mini]

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

I would not buy a Pommy car for a bet. As soon as they are driven through one winter on salted roads corrosion starts in the body and the thing is stuffed. I was reading an article by Chris Harris, he has a four year old Range Rover with major corrosion in it and this is fairly typical of what happens. If the car was driven out of the showroom and immediately shipped that would be different.

[cracka]

Werent V10 tourags from pommy land written off after 2 years? like 2004 car was turned to nothing but brown flakey metal by 2006?

[TJ Shermuz]

I would not buy a Pommy car for a bet. As soon as they are driven through one winter on salted roads corrosion starts in the body and the thing is stuffed. I was reading an article by Chris Harris, he has a four year old Range Rover with major corrosion in it and this is fairly typical of what happens. If the car was driven out of the showroom and immediately shipped that would be different.

Thats not really a concern as they are talking cars less than 3 months old, i.e. Brand new then 3 months to ship them here

If it also allows older than that then i would expect it would have to go through RAWS which is already super tough on rust and accident damage... I.e any rust or been in an accident of any type repaired or not then not elegible.

[Captiva Fan]

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.

So they're talking about the return of Euro delivery programs?
What with travel being so cheap now compared to the 70's, that could be interesting for quite a few people?

[TJ Shermuz]

So they're talking about the return of Euro delivery programs?
What with travel being so cheap now compared to the 70's, that could be interesting for quite a few people?

Hell yeah! I'd love to buy a new car in germany, tour it around then have it shipped over!

[smellytofu]

http://www.drive.com.au/motor-news/p...19-11occi.html

The herald has spent some time writing about old news again (with misguided information in typical herald style)

Is it good sense or will safety, jobs and value be eroded?

Yes, it's good sense, safety & value will be improved (I know how prices are done and it's in short a which way is the wind blowing methodology), the scope for jobs will expand with people understanding non English language a requirement and these jobs will migrate towards supporting these parallel cars.

[frog_a_lot]

So they're talking about the return of Euro delivery programs?
What with travel being so cheap now compared to the 70's, that could be interesting for quite a few people?

My folks did that for a porsche and got delivered to Canada after touring Europe.
Out of curiosity they asked about doing it to Australia, the response was a very strong 'hell no'.. aparently the main issue they mentioned is quarantine issues rather than duties and customs.

[Sketchy]

Was the 1.8 motor the 2zzfe from the corolla or just some generic 1.8l twin cam thing? I'd imagine a Yaris would fucking fly with that engine on board.

[Captiva Fan]

*edit*
Found the post in question ... ignore this.

[rj_astra]

Was the 1.8 motor the 2zzfe from the corolla or just some generic 1.8l twin cam thing? I'd imagine a Yaris would fucking fly with that engine on board.

Yaris don't fly even with the 1.8L motor. Remember all the competitors to it in Euro land - Polo GTI, RS200, Corsa VXR - etc... it didn't rate.

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/toyota/...1/toyota-yaris

[Captiva Fan]

^ Kinda makes sense, it probably doesn't weigh that much less than a few-generations-ago Corolla by the time you put everything in it they probably put in it to justify/sell as "the top model" ... and that Corolla didn't exactly set the world on fire with it's performance.