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Australian prices! 18-May-2011 At 7:46:22 PM james
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>Not only does .nz not have that, but they also benefit from Japans laws
>that prohibit anyone driving a car older then (I think it's 5 might be
>3) 3 years. All of these pretty much perfectly good 5 year old cars are
>then shipped to places like New Zealand and sold for nothing.Welcome to
>a inundated market of cheap nice cars.

I thought the real reason was that Japanse banks etc won't finance cars older than 5 years. I think they have pretty strict emissions testing also.

These grey imports do make it to Australia also but there is a pretty small yearly quota on them. My guess is whoever imports them to Aust makes a killing! Cheap imports & it can be sold at Australian prices.

But whatever... I try buy locally where possible (I check locally every time). But when the local store doesn't have something in stock & can't tell me how long to get it in.... why shouldn't I go online, pay 1/3 the price & have it next week anyway?
The Australian market will have to realise sooner or later that the game has changed & will have to adjust. Change is the only constant.

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