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lol ... except what you left on the garage floor :)

hmm ... 8 days to save 16k.

well it looks like I'll have to save a bit longer then :P

So I guess that means a couple of extra thousand $$.

So when are you able to get in yours and drive away and have you registered it and everything yet?

Still ... you could make TWO black lines while your waiting I guess. :)

As far as I know, the new SEVS scheme will only allow stock cars to be brought into the country, unless you bring it through the Private Import scheme which requires you to own the car in Japan for 12 months prior to shipping it here.

This will foreseeably raise the prices of nicely modified imports already in Australia...

i drove it round for the first week i had it cos if a temp rego :) so i know what im missing out on :P

btw if ur gonna try and get finance from a bank or maybe even finance company.... id be saving now cos u need to show a savings record... thats y i couldnt buy mine last yr when i turned 18 :)

yeah maybe

if u havent been saving already

id say start saving now and wait till u have most of the money or whateva position u want 2 put urself into

if ur looking at getting a loan, look at how much the repayments will b and try saving at least that each week plus insurance and a few extra $ for other costs

if u can do that for say 3 months id say ud be ok in getting a loan

i saved 250 a week for 3 months and got a 20k loan easy

but im not sure on what factors come into this aswell

i'm doing the same thing as chaos great minds think alike :P

i'v got bout 10 atm gonna save around another 2 and buy a 180

btw i work at kmart do about 12 hours a week after school n stuff so i save alot of that, have been doing so since yr 10 - 2 years later i a few steps away from my goals

good work ... I guess that's what im gonna have to do .. just keep working at it .. no easy way out.

Makes me jealous of those Japanese you see driving 'round in their lines and supra's when I know damn well that they're parents paid for it. Still, at least when you buy it yourself you'll learn to appreciate it.

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