Yet another on the hunt.

[sailorbaz]

Excellent, very informative thread.

[edylcreyob]

OH that makes more sense and he then get sick of it the minute it arrives and sells it to you......should work providing he meets all criteria 12 months ownership, garaged at his address used regularly etc etc.. Better cover the money trail carefully for car payment though.


I will find the newsletter I refererred to and re read but I think it may be more for Special Interest Vehicle imports not Personal Imports which is what this would come under.

Sure can't buy one here for that price as you know, can't buy a damaged one for that actually!!!!!!

Didin't want to say that (who knows who's watching!!!)

But you get the gerneral idea. Edy

Mate, if it was easy to import cars we don't have in OZ we'd all be a lot better off. Kind of like NZ. Noble's, 22b's, etc. every where

CHhers

Another member on this forum - informed me that a CSL sold in OZ for $89k last week. Not happy I missed it - does anyone know any more info on it.

Was it damaged or high k's? Price seems out of line with what most are advertised for.

Cheers

[jonv]

Originally Posted by fectech

Another member on this forum - informed me that a CSL sold in OZ for $89k last week. Not happy I missed it - does anyone know any more info on it.

Was it damaged or high k's? Price seems out of line with what most are advertised for.

Cheers

Was this for an imported car?

I understand that an imported car will be less value than a non-import. Does this apply to ALL cars? if so, what is the typcal % reduction?
Just wondering about imported a bit of exotica, say a Lambo.

Originally Posted by jonv

Was this for an imported car?

I understand that an imported car will be less value than a non-import. Does this apply to ALL cars? if so, what is the typcal % reduction?
Just wondering about imported a bit of exotica, say a Lambo.

Not positive but I think the car was a repair job - would love to know more myself.

The simple answer to your other question is Yes - all imported cars are worth less than Australian delivered cars. Having said that there are a lot of different factors and there is no real way of applying a percentage. For example there are a lot of different schemes under which you can import a car - personal import, rally import, import of a car that’s on the SEVS list and has a RAWS workshop, pre 1989 import etc - each of these type of imports have a different set of rules and as such the harder the rules, generally, the higher the cost. The Australian Gov has made it quite hard to import cars in order to protect our local car manufacturers - or so some people say.

If you would like to check prices of cars here (OZ), the best place would be carsales.com.au and if you search for personal import you can make some comparisons. Usually, though, the cars that have been personally imported are cars that never came to Australia and can't be complied - therefore there is no way of determining a percentage. I sold my Clio V6 for about what it cost me to import. I definitely didn't make any money.

Hope that helps.

Cheers

[jonv]

Very informative, thank you for your reply.

Just as a matter of interest, what part of Aussie are you from? I plan to head to Brisbane if all things go to plan.

[edylcreyob]

OP is correct, Australiian delivery carries a premium in my opinion as much as 40% depending on the car. an d collectability.

Biggest issue is LHD v RHD so if its a UK import once rust issues are determined then its not quite so bad but USA imports and European imports suffer badly from either being converted or still LHD

If the car is 30 years old no need to convert to RHD but if LHD it will still restrict its selling price on most cars.