I'd love to be able to agree with you graham, but in my 7 years or so of driving an import I simply can not.
At the age of 33 I have spent 15 years behind the wheel, in that time I have spent approximately half in imports and half not.
During this 15 years I have never, as in NOT EVER been pulled over for a random check in a non import car.
driving around in my skyline, I have been pulled over multiple times whilst driving around, obeying the law.
in the evo, which is stock except for wheels and a non loud catback I was followed the other night by a copper that sat up my ass for 3km on the Neppean Hwy, even changing lanes (not indicating once) to follow and make SURE she was annoying me. She then left the Hwy with me and followed me all the way to the dan murphy's carpark where she finally decided to drive off, slowly, making sure I didn't drive off again. (I cant wait for the EPA i'll probably get in the mail) BUT what makes this worse is that just 2 lanes over there was a near new 3 series beamer with a loud as all hell exhaust absolutely flogging it from every set of lights, he even broke traction on one occasion, but did she pull him over or even look at him? NO
I have had cops drive past me and nearly cause accidents just to pull me over.
I have had an undercover sit at the lights revving his engine to try to get me to race.
I have had cops pull me and 10 other cars over on slow outback cruises just for defecting purposes. (more than once)
I have even had a cop told by a senior officer that he wasn't going to defect us as a show of good faith because we were not driving badly, so he actually waited until the snr officer had left, called lillydale TMU and organised a couple of TMU cars to wait for us so his name wouldn't be on the defects. He then rode his bike next to us on the wrong side of the road speeding, slowing down and changing lanes without indicating regularly just to prove a point.
It has come to the point now.... and this is what upsets me, that the only time I drive in a dangerous manner is when I am unfairly targeted by cops for doing NOTHING other than driving an import, and they havent seen my rego. Take what you will from that.