Jspec Vr4 28,000kms

[JayRome]

lol just like the old Kenwood head units, you can change the color of the bottons from orange to green...... utterly useless but it was still cool for the 90's

 

[penngwyne]

Nice but too expensive for me with added cost of compliance.
Did you see the extra stuff the Legnum had in it?
Nice Recaro's and a GPS Nav system, the steering wheel AND it was ten years younger than the VR4

 

[SIVART]

Nice but too expensive for me with added cost of compliance.
Did you see the extra stuff the Legnum had in it?
Nice Recaro's and a GPS Nav system, the steering wheel AND it was ten years younger than the VR4

good point but its even hard to find early evo's with those sort of kms

 

[jase]

F.O.B means that shipping is included in the price. Somehow I dont think the service fee ($1000) import duty and GST comes to $4527!

FOB is not shipping. FOB means Free On Board. This means that an FOB price includes the purchase price of the vehicle, any commissions, the transfer from the auction site to the docks, deregistration in Japan, loading of the vehicle onto the ship and the export documentation charge charged by the shipping line in Japan.

688,000 Yen = AUD$6443

On top of FOB, you need to pay for shipping, which usually costs around USD$80 per cubic metre.. For a VR4 that's probably around 10 cubic metres, so thats USD$800..

USD$800 = AUD$908

When the car arrives in Australia, Customs assesses the FOB value of the vehicle (they base this on your invoice from the buyer's company in Japan, unless something is suss), converts it to Australia dollars, then you're taxed at 10% of the that figure.

10% of $6443 is $644

Being Australia you're then charged GST on a tax (makes sense). So you're charged 10% on your FOB, shipping and stamp duty. The total so far is $7995.

10% of $7995 is $799

On top of this you then have to pay Quarantine fees, some cleaning fees, customs broker fees, storage, cartage, and other assorted crap, you're going to spend at least $700 there.. probably more like $800 or...

$900

So far that totals $9694, not to mention J-Spec includes their $1000 fee in that price. So your total before compliance/rego/etc is...

$10694

If you're going through J-spec, they actually organise the cars to be dropped off at your door, which usually costs around $300, depending on where you are located. You'd be hard pressed to get everything that cheap every time you import too.. Prices usually blow out and at the time of them posting that the exchange rate was probably lower. They usually try to overestimate rather than underestimate.

Compliance on a pre 89 car is worth around $400-$1500 depending on who you get to do it/if you do work yourself/etc.

 

[AUSVR4]

^^^ Can you tell he's done this before??

 

[jase]

:lol:

It's embedded into me now.

There's lots of shonkeys out there, but trust me you're better off going through J-Spec (higher priced cars), Prestige (lower quality cars) or Iron Chef Imports (very varied quality cars) than a caryard or an importer that says "give me $25k and I'll have a car on the road for you". The only way the three above can pull a shonky is if they do so in conjunction with a caryard in Japan. I.e. They claim the car is worth 600,000 Yen, but in fact they are only charging 200,000 Yen, then split the profit.

Other than that all the invoices come to you direct from the car yard, the shipping company (and usually quarantine, customs duties, taxes, etc it all comes as the one big bill), and compliance workshop..