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post Jul 21, 2007 - 11:56 AM
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Since i'll be able to import for my birthday a JDM GT-Four 6th Gen, i wanna know on which website i can find one?


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post Jul 23, 2007 - 12:11 AM
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You are in Canada.
The first batch of 94 ST205 should arrive in 2009

Pretty sure canada has different import standards than we do.

He sounds like he hasn't done his research or he won the lottery. Importing a gt-4 isnt easy, it costs soooO00ooOO much money. Just wait until you can legally do it without paying so much money, here its 15 years after release.


Well since a 92 Carlos Sainz is +- $8500 it shouldn't be that much...


$8500?...have u been looking at j-specimports website??thouse guys and feist are theifs when it comes to cost and qaulity...they are all auction cars. I knew of 2 Carlos Sainz in toronto that were going for less than 6 about 4 months ago.

As for importing..it doesnt cost sooooooooo much money. It costs about $1500-$2000 for a container that will hold any where from 1-6 cars, you have to pay duty on what ever the cost of the car is, $100 if its got A/C and then GST...Duty on the canadian side is only about...4% i think, and GST *general sales tax* here, is 7%. So you take the cost of the creat split 6 ways, theres an additional $333 u add to the price of the car, aswell as the other costs. All in all, it adds maybe $1500 if that onto the original purchase price. Like when we just imported sarah's coupe...with the $100 A/C tax, duty and GST, we only paid $220 on it. it doesnt cost alot to import, its just gettin contacts to export and find cars is the hard part.

Most companies that export/import cars buy auction cars...aka they buy em, and sell em. Dont check em. Probably 85% of the importing companies out there will charge you another $250 or so for a mechanic in japan to take a look at the car and make sure its in full running order and to make sure nothing will need replacement. With the company im working with, we have a contact in japan who buys cars off private parties and car lots. He then also checks over every car b4 he ships it so that we know if and what the problems are b4 we get the cars. Last year we had a 91 MR2T come over and the guy was miss firing and bogging like crazy, we completely forgot about the notice that the guy in japan sends us if theres a problem. Sure enough it was just somethin as simple as a new coil and wires and it ran fine. We covered the cost at our own expence because we messed up and didnt catch it b4 we sold the car.

But even if you wanted a 5th gen all-trac, i could get you one for around 5.5K or 6.5K for a WRC group A, or a Carlos Sainz...depending on the mods and km on it. Some cars we sell are completely stock with really low km on it, others are dont up to the tits, and others are slightly modded with mid kms....its all related to cost. Most of the cars we import have roughly 100xxxKM on it or a bit more or less. Highest km car we have imported so far has been my friend & the owner of the companies Benz that has 156xxxkm on it.

Before any one buys a car from japan, make sure you research it and the company b4 you buy. before the company i work with got started, my friend imported a 180sx from japan...cost him almost $10K...the thing needed a new front bumper, suspension, wheel bearings, brakes, some body work on the rear 1/4 pannel, a new headlight motor and half the dash. When he got the pics off the net from the company he bought it from *cough* Feist *cough*, they made it look sooo fantastic, then he got it, and regreted it...we put maybe $200 of stuff into it, then sold it for $3k higher than what he bought it for to some kid who was all excited about RHD cars. Just check with other people about the company, if you can see if you can see the quality of cars they import b4 u buy, and see what they do and dont do for you regarding registeration.

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