Rhd Japanese Sports Cars

[white4d96]

going by that I would say either Supra, 180SX (similar to a 240SX), S13/14/15 Silvia, an old Fairlady Z (300ZX), RX-7...Personally I would like an RX-7.

[bennett15]

Mazda Rx-7

If you want good japanese cars for good prices look

here www.tradecarview.com, friend of mine imported a 93 twin turbo

rx-7 here to Canada and it hauls ass.

[troy]

anyone know how much it is to import a car?

[raytard]

"import" tax is like 15 grand in most cases

so look around for a normal american version car.

afaik motorex (now out of business) paid the cash to get like dozens of japanese spec cars, and run emissions tests and crash tests to be able to import some cars (notably skylines) and retrofit them for us roads

what you kinda have to do now is get the car shipped here in pieces, reassemble it, and register it as either a kit car or a show car...both of which have some hoops to jump through and problems with everyday use (like mileage limits or proving the historical nature of the car or blahblahblah) and will eat up that 15 grand fast considering the disassembly labor, packing, shipping, customs, taxes, reassembly, etc

for my money, i have a thing for hachiroku (ae86....basically 86/87 corolla hatchback...gts...hell yea) theyre light as hell, rwd, and a blast to drive with a little work

silvias are all sick, but you can find the sx counterparts here and while rhd is cool, the price aint worth it to me

i'd personally get something that isnt available here in the us, like an asl garaiya...if i had the cash, no idea what that would run

i've heard of some people getting them shipped to canada and then brought here somehow, like registered there and then driven here and reregistered, which i guess flys in some states, but idk

Edited May 13, 2009 by raytard

[bennett15]

about $1800-$2500 depending if you import through "Ro-Ro"

or container then importer brokers cost

[troy]

whats the cheapest way to get a car imported including taxes and everything

[bennett15]

On tradecarview.com they only ship to the U.S with 20ft containers is the cheapest takes about a month or so

and cost about $1800 Example http://www.tradecarview.com/ship/?mk=5&amp...=392&dc=840

[troy]

i konw raytard mentioned taxes. how much will these hit me

[raytard]

but realize that is a car shipped to cali, unregistered....thats just the "shipping" cost, no exchange rates or finding a seller in japan, a person to transport it from them to the container, noone to get it from cali to you, and no registering....

buy yourself a second hand porsche, its way cooler than a stock 4 banger from japan

edit: i looked into it back in the day, motorex charged like 15-20k to import a skyline and get it registered, ontop of the price of the car, and it was about the same for evo's and silvias

and it would still be in cali....

Edited May 13, 2009 by raytard

[99vic]

my dream ricer is a 180sx (real 240sx)http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&um=1&q=180sx&sa=N&start=20&ndsp=20