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All the cars that are exported from Japan to Australia go thru a deregistration process that allows it to be removed from the Japanese shores.

Are any of these cars allowed back into Japan at all? Seeing that the car originated from Japan, will the authorities allow it back into Japan for any period of time? And if they do, what are the cost involved? Please let me know if you can give me some answers.

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Laurence Mentor

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On a side note. I noticed that most luxury cars in Japan are LHD.

I always thought it would be fun to import a LHD FD RX7 from America to just annoy people. I still have no valid reason why it is a good idea, it just feels like it is.

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they should, its the same thing with the american cars thats being shipped here in japan they have a little mods that they do to make it "street legal" here, ie an 82 camaro they have to do something with the fender to get it here. as far as LHD RX-7 they have brought some here in Japan, actually one of em is racing in D1, check it if you like on rd 5 in Odaiba.

Evo_Lee Experienced

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GT-Net or was it C-West I forget has a mint LHD S2000. The brake rotor were all rusty but you could tell they were keeping it unmodified, low kilometres to sell off potentially for big bucks one day.

So I'm sure cars/models similar to the domestic model can be imported but the demand except for the Euroluxo barges is not high.

Rezz Grand Master

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Any Ideas yet? Rezz??? Im kinda hoping you can pull through with an answer.... :)
I really can't see a problem with importing an "ex-Japanese import" back into Japan, just so long as it's unmodified and none of the original things that made it roadworthy in Japan (eg: the emergency flare is there, the catalytic converter ok, lights/horn etc all working) are still intact.

For example, I took some pics of some LHD Celsiors (Lexus SC400s) at the Kobe SuperAutobacs show and (although they were modified) seemed to be something that a few enthusiasts were willing to go through to be unique (having a LHD Celsior I guess is not so unique now though?).

Maybe the question isn't "can it be done?" but "if it's possible?" under small volume import laws...

It's all just a guess though, I don't know anything really. What car is it? Can I ask why you want to do it?

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