New car imports

[Captiva Fan]

assuming it comes in in 2018 that will make it 1993 when it comes in. Better make sure if you have a GTR or similar and are planning to sell to get rid of it before the market gets flooded with cheat shit again.

If you don't have one, $12k off the import-cost all of a sudden might make it worth a trip to Japan so you can check whether it's a POS at the source.
Are R32 GTR's shit, or are trashed R32 GTR's with speedo's wound-back 100k kms a few times shit?

[Jack Nicholson]

Feel a bit sorry for the guys who've made a living on grey import conversions ... but hey, surely they can be parts suppliers & maintenance experts now?

Their business is still protected. Anything over 12months old or 500kms on the clock, up to 25 years old, is their territory, that's a pretty big scope.

[Marv]

Are R32 GTR's shit, or are trashed R32 GTR's with speedo's wound-back 100k kms a few times shit?

Good luck finding a good one. Americans can now import them and are snapping them up, and are driving prices up.

[Captiva Fan]

Good luck finding a good one. Americans can now import them and are snapping them up, and are driving prices up.

Ah well, wasn't really serious.
I'll bet it's going to be a similar problem getting hold of a Cosworth by 2018, too.
There may be other interesting cars nobody had ever considered before. Wonder what an ?E24? M6 is worth? Do they have assplodey engines like the E34 M5's?

[fatz]

Welcome backflip!

http://www.theguardian.com/business/...m-japan-and-uk

And time to start teeing up a 35 gtr

[Captiva Fan]

Under a year & 500km old?
Add GST & LCT & import duties, don't know if you're getting a GTR any cheaper than Nissan Oz will sell you one with warranty.
There's no way they'd let the LCT slide on a "new" grey import unless they were also axing LCT on new cars sold here.

[Marv]

Ah well, wasn't really serious.
I'll bet it's going to be a similar problem getting hold of a Cosworth by 2018, too.
There may be other interesting cars nobody had ever considered before. Wonder what an ?E24? M6 is worth? Do they have assplodey engines like the E34 M5's?

Worse - M88/3 which the E34 M5 engine is based off (M1, E24/E28/E30/E34 M cars all used variants of the original M88 in-line six).

And E24s rust.

[smellytofu]

Under a year & 500km old?
Add GST & LCT & import duties, don't know if you're getting a GTR any cheaper than Nissan Oz will sell you one with warranty.
There's no way they'd let the LCT slide on a "new" grey import unless they were also axing LCT on new cars sold here.

The thing is that it gives people choice and manufacturers to also drop cost by losing the "Australian destination pack" they would otherwise have to develop, test and implement at the factory.

[Captiva Fan]

The thing is that it gives people choice and manufacturers to also drop cost by losing the "Australian destination pack" they would otherwise have to develop, test and implement at the factory.

I know this is the theory, but if you do a price comparo & remove GST/LCT/stamp-duty/rego from the cost of cars OS the only place they're generally cheaper is the USA.
So if grey-imported cars are no cheaper than black-imported ones, why would the black importers drop their prices?
OK there are exceptions, but some of those exceptions are things like Cayman GT4's - where Australians paid probably about AU$20k than Soap Dodgers, but that also seems to have meant that more Australians got a chance at owning one ... ie. good luck getting a GT4 from the UK at AU$20k less than a new one here!

I think it might offer some protection going forward though, and reduce the future incentive for "black importers" to ream us.

It's worth noting that the AMEP and Senator Ricky Muir have been lobbying tirelessly for these changes for almost 18 months

Now THAT is a very interesting politically-related factoid, and one which could affect this little black duck's vote in future (if true).

[fatz]

Under a year & 500km old?
Add GST & LCT & import duties, don't know if you're getting a GTR any cheaper than Nissan Oz will sell you one with warranty.
There's no way they'd let the LCT slide on a "new" grey import unless they were also axing LCT on new cars sold here.

quick maths

buy price is 100k in japan - 5% consumption tax

so we are starting with 95k
2k to ship in style
lct 11.5k
gst 10%, importr duty 5% and rego 3%= 18% so 19k

so 106k +19k on road

$125

fuck you exchange rate

nissan sell them for 190k

no saving there at all

[Jack Nicholson]

Really? That's quite a saving...

EDIT

And I suppose any factory warranty goes out the window when you start modding it, so no great loss...

[trdee]

F355 will come in under the 25 year rule in 3 years. Time for me to start saving..

[Captiva Fan]

Nissan website says GTR from 10,587,240, which is AU$130k ... ?

[notfast]

This might be a dumb question, but doesn't LCT apply only to brand spankers over $60k?

[Jack Nicholson]

Nope, imports of any kind with a value above the threshold attract LCT.