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if that was in the US i'd understand... poor guys would give an arm n a leg to own a skyline.

if its in australia the owner should be pointed and laughed at... and given the number of a local importer who can get him a stock skyline thats:

a) more fun to drive

B) faster

c) has better equipment

d) looks better than all that rice

e) cheaper

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a lot of places in asia u can get them but do u know how much it costs for some of them to run them or put them on the rd? who knows what the reason is but its definately different... yet the same... lol

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1st thing they were only made Right hand drives (unlike the supras which were made right and left hand drives), i am guessing here but it might have something to do with ommissions becasuet thats why they cant e imported to most europian countries.

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they're not banned, and its not coz they're RHD only.

In the US to import a car you need to pass an emmisions test (a lot stricter than Europe, Aus or Japan). And crash testing has to be done to equal the data factories provide on homebuilt cars (this includes stress tests, high speed collision tests and US ISO standards compliance of all parts used ont he car.

Only Motorex has fronted up tot he huge task of doing this, and they don't particularly wanna share the data with anyone else. So only they can import Skylines into the uS, and then again only specific models. So the accompanying price tag is uaually 3 times the value of the car in australia.

Make sense now? the skylines in F&F god I hate people who make references to that stupid movie) all went thru motorex.

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