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I'm looking at importing in Jan and thought I'd post up the approx costs as I have them so far--- :woot:

Based on a car that costs $4500.00 at the block.

ITEM -Car Cost (FOB Yen) 550000 Exchange Rate (Yen to A$) 99.83= AUS$ 5509.00 (inc Japanese Agents handling cost).

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1/BROKER FEE -------------------------------------------------------UP FRONT. $1,100./

2/FOB price in Australian dollars------------------Within week of purchase. $5,509./

3/Insurance @ 3.5% of 1-2-4-5 =$9410.00 pay on purchase of vehicle-- $ 321./

4/Shipping, wharf, Customs and agents fees ---Upon arrival 4-5 weeks. $1,800./
5/Import Duty & GST ----------------------------------Upon arrival 4-5 weeks. $1,011./

6/Compliance---------------------------------------Upon completion 12 weeks. $2,500./

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------SUB TOTAL-$12241./

7/(Add—Rego $350.00 , Tyres--$$600.00 , Roadworthy(?)=+$990)-------$990./

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------TOTAL$13231.00

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What vehicle are you getting?

I assume there is none in Australia for sale

What would you estimate resale?

AAAAAAAAAAAHHHRG---I'm still procrastinating :turned:

Probably an R34GT-t Auto , (I've had a manual one before).

There are a fair few available here but they a mainly of the 'enthusiastically over enhanced' variety.

Depends on what I end up getting.

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13 g for an auto r34?

Surely not.

Importing, I have been assured that it can be done -- with patience .

There are a number on advertised here (In Australia) for less than $13K but 'modded' somewhat.

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Al, have you weighed up the fact that Auto R34s depreciate at a rate of knots?

Thus, you can pick up one already here at around your budget and...

i) have a choice of colour

ii) have a choice of mods

iii) physically inspect it before handing over money

iv) because car sales are slow from Dec-Feb, you can haggle more aggressively

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yeah in all seriousness, if you cant find an auto 34 somethings wrong.

i would not go through the importing process to get one.

my mate bought one the other day in silver very clean for 9000 cos it was auto.

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yeah in all seriousness, if you cant find an auto 34 somethings wrong.

i would not go through the importing process to get one.

my mate bought one the other day in silver very clean for 9000 cos it was auto.

Al, have you weighed up the fact that Auto R34s depreciate at a rate of knots?

Thus, you can pick up one already here at around your budget and...

i) have a choice of colour

ii) have a choice of mods

iii) physically inspect it before handing over money

iv) because car sales are slow from Dec-Feb, you can haggle more aggressively

Thanks for the replies guys , you are absolutely correct and if I could get to any of them I'm sure given very little time I could find one , however , I am currently living in Hervey Bay , which , whilst still theoretically on the planet actually in many regards may as well not be , this would seem to be one of those regards.

I also have to bear in mind that should I buy privately without actually physically seeing the car I'll be up for around $350.00 per inspection and given the somewhat optimistic descriptions given by some sellers ,-- I could see this turning out quite costly .

I've done more than a fair amount of searching and there are 3 that are very promising looking, two in Vic and one --particularly-- in SA which I'm following and if the price were not $2K over what I can bring one in for I'd likely be going for it.

I'll also note that I could be up for a road trip --not a bad thing but $ or up to $1000 maybe $1500.00 in freight buying onshore

So guys you can see buying onshore unless I can find what I'm after in Brisbane (which is still an 8-9 hour round trip by the timeyou've done what you went for) has some hiccups.

:cheers:

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