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I live in New Zealand and R33 manual GTS25t's here are around $10,000NZD with around 100,000kms and some mods.

I checked on Carsales.com.au and most of the ones on there are around $15,000AUD! WTF

I bought my auto series 2 gts25t for $4700NZD with 122,000kms!

$4k compliance to start with, plus restrictions on the types of cars and models which can be imported which also means there are less of them basically. R33's are worth stuff all here now too due to market saturation of that model

It's also the reason why there are no more domestic car manufacturers (even suppliers) in NZ, it all died because of the lack of restrictions. On the plus side, cheaper cars for you :down:

It's also the reason why there are no more domestic car manufacturers (even suppliers) in NZ, it all died because of the lack of restrictions. On the plus side, cheaper cars for you :(

there never were any large scale domestic auto manufacturers in NZ, and the ones that were there are still there pumping out bespoke stuff.

NZ just didn't have a large enough automotive industry, so all cars had to be imported, thus the regulations on imports and costs of importing are far less than in australia. it adds about 4k to 5k on the price. That cost is negligible at high cost cars, but for cars under 20k, that becomes a significant percentage.

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