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pentae

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pentae

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Hey Guys,

Sorry in advance to the moderators for making two threads, but its a pretty important issue that affects all of us who drive imports.

Lets stop being selfish and worrying about today, and start worrying about a few years from now when our cars are getting old and it comes time to upgrade.

I am not an expert on the topic but I have started a thread over in the 'Legislation' area of the forum that EVERYONE needs to look at..

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/sh...ead.php?t=48685

If we dont start writing into our political figures and telling them that the existing SEVS system simply is not working we will be sitting around in a few years from now scratching our heads saying 'man I remember when it used to be easy to import a skyline'

ACT TODAY!

I've written in and had my say, you guys should too. :P

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Bah, things are always changing...there will always be imports just not as many...only people I see whinging are you youngins. You're lucky to be at your age to be driving these turbo cars at this cost, be thankful your able to drive them...not too many more will come out from the land of the rising sun now...

BNR34 for $30K...pffft, are you comparing this to today's exchange rates...Australia haven't had a strong exchange rate against the Yen for over 30 years...again aren't you lucky to see a period of strong Aussie dollar.

The use of SAU or any forum to judge import popularity is not exactly a true indication, people use forums to discuss and exchange information. Comparing them to Ford and Holden forums is just silly, when information is common and garages can answer your questions. However it does indicate peoples interest in a particular model, so makers of that model may want to take note of it's popular following.

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Evo_Lee:

Hmm, you can pick up a BNR34 in Japan for $44k today. Whats so hard to believe about them selling for the low 30k mark in 3 years? Before the ridiculous compliancing system that we have now, the freight+compliance cost would be minimal, hence my point.

You obviously think your a smart person Evo, so you tell me.

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Some things are true, Like the stopping of import businesses.

I remember back in 1998/9 the gov was only wanting car dealers to import cars and I'm guessing this is still true for today.

So instead of going off to a company that will help you, you'd instead go off to nissan and get them to import the Skyline etc, you couldn't goto subaru and get them to import a Skyline could only be a nissan dealer, also the dealer didn't have to import any cars at all so if all the dealers in your state or in Australia didn't want to import a car then you'd be stuffed.

This was to stop import car yards from selling import cars and because only dealers were the only people allowed to import cars this would stop all the other import places as well.

Well the above plan got changed into SEVs, and that's also the major reason why a lot of people were spewing about this change.

Also back then it would be been real cheap but the place you went to could also be the most dodgy place in Australia as well, and do nothing bar convert things like the fuel tank openning etc, in other words people were paying companies $3,000+ or what ever the amount was, and the company would probably spend a max of $300 on your car to make it safe for rego and the roads in general.

In HPI they had said SEVs sucks but overall it makes better sense because only the good people will keep at it and hopely get rid of the get rich quick people that around at that time.

So the thinking is that everyone and anyone who imports a car from anywhere should be paying for a completely safe car, where as you could end up with a un-safe car or a car that breaks down in 3 months time requiring a new engine etc.

I personally think imports will be kept up but 4x4 are imported the most in fact and cars are only 2nd or 3rd of most imported vehicles.

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mate, I totally understand the fustration those in Aust are experiencing.

but what is more disturbing is young guys who just because now own an import think they are the true enthusiast when in actual fact these guys and quick buck importers have already f**ked it up for the true enthusiast.

clearly 3 years is another time...who knows what will happen...don't think too far ahead tiger.

Evo_Lee:

Hmm, you can pick up a BNR34 in Japan for $44k today. Whats so hard to believe about them selling for the low 30k mark in 3 years? Before the ridiculous compliancing system that we have now, the freight+compliance cost would be minimal, hence my point.

You obviously think your a smart person Evo, so you tell me.

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