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Buying a Z straight from Japan...can it be done?

Originally Posted by DJ-of-E A lot of guys here in So-Cali know Motorex. Unfortunately, it's a much bigger mess than it seems. the rise and fall of motorex - Time

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Old 04-23-2011, 01:47 PM   #16 (permalink)
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A lot of guys here in So-Cali know Motorex. Unfortunately, it's a much bigger mess than it seems.

the rise and fall of motorex - Time Attack Forums

^ Worth the read. The whole situation felt like a damn 1 hour movie at least.
wow, was a good read. i had heard a few parts of it but never the entire thing laid out in what i could call an "official" release.
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wow, was a good read. i had heard a few parts of it but never the entire thing laid out in what i could call an "official" release.
All you need is an undercover cop going bad and you have the next Fast and Furious plot!
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Congrats on your ride Anarky, ran across a post somewhere and saw that you were getting one in Arizona, Same car I want lol, 10 or 11...what was the price before TTL? if you don't mind..and also, you paid TT in Arizona right? so they give you some kind of paper that allows you to register here? is that correct?

True, SoCal, good points, I am curious what they would retail for in Japan before taking all the other steps to have it state certified ect, My plan is getting one down the road towards the end of the year
The price before ttl was 32,456. I paid all the TTL in Arizona. They are a recipricating state to Utah so I paid the 6.85% tax there and yes I got all the paper work to register it here. Went to the DMV and had no problems.

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So I was at the dealership last Sunday just looking at the Z's while it was closed to avoid the salesmen harassing me, When a older guy came by and started talking to me about the Z and the GT-R and talked about how the dealers in Utah wont move on price, and he mentioned that he was going to be getting a GT-R from a shipping company that will travel to Japan by boat and buy it and ship it back on the boat and will be paying $74k vs $92K

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if he meant he is buying a japanese GTR ...they are more expensive in japan than here... the same premium model that costs 91-92K here...costs the equivalent of about 115K dollars in japan... roughly 9.5 million yen

one of the reasons for the increase of the price on the new GTR besides the performance improvements was nissan trying to bring it more inline with what it costs in other markets... when the car first launched in japan in 07 and here in 08.. it was priced similar... by japans next model year the cost of the JDM market one skyrocketed and ours saw only a modest increase in relation to theirs... ours has been creeping up ever since and is roughly 20K more now than when it was first offered 3 years ago...

if he meant he is buying a USDM GTR...... you cant cut the dealers out and buy straight from japan.. to use your 91K GTR as an example the dealer buys it from nissan for about 82K (3% under invoice) vs the MSRP of 91K...so that figure of 74K is almost 10K less than what its wholesale is
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Also the Japan car models are tuned for higher octane than what is offered here in the U.S., or so I heard
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