Thread: Importing Car to Australia

Hey guys, my family is moving to Australia at the end of the year, and since cars are HELLA expensive in australia, i was wondering if anyone knew any websites or companies that specialize (and are reliable) for importing cars from Japan.
since we're diplomats we don't have to pay any import tax or jump through any hoops with the AU govn't.
any help would be appreciated, cheers!

Im pretty sure my cousin imported a Toyota Supra from Japan a few years back....i'll check with him and let you know.

I know this is my first post but considering i live here thought i would help

With importing from Japan there is a 15 yr rule which mean that you cant just import any car what you want, another thing is that n old school cars form the US like the stingrays and things like that need to go through a very tough test if they can come in the country ,

if you want some info on car import check these sites out

Welcome to Just Jap - Your Online Performance Parts Superstore

or even '

Import Monster |

^^^ he has a better idea as he imports everything to do with JAPAN and i can vouch for him awsome stuff .

Prestige Motorsport - Vehicles sourced to order from Japan - V2

I recently read an article in the paper about Lux cars here in Australia.
A new Phantom is $ 1,068.000.00 plus on road costs in Sydney compared to about $ 375.000.00 in the USA.
We get hit with Luxury car tax and import duty, oh plus GST

Heard back from my cuz he recommended these two:

Kamikaze Motors Car Dealer ? CarPoint Australia

http://www.j-spec.com.au/

Threadjack time

Where have all you Aussie's been hiding?
Its boring just talking back and forth with nytrydr in the Aussie section
Let's try and get this section going again. Post Ur cars up or anything really.

End Threadjack.

Back on topic.... I'm not sure how you will go importing but if you have a list of potential cars you are interested in buying in aus, post them up and I'll try give you a rough idea of price or send you some links to those for sale.

LOL, yeah man, we need more aussies on here! if the 3 new members who posted in this thread are reading this....please contribute more...we'd love to hear from y'all...

I'll check some other forums and try to post up some new content in here

^^ thanks nytrydr!

as for the importing, I still have to find out what procedures, as diplomats, we can skip. i know that when we moved back to croatia from the states, we took a us spec Passat with us, and we didn't have to pay any import tax or have to go through the process of changing parts into euro spec. I think the same applies here but i'm not completely sure yet, so we can basically import anything we want.

Hey.... I've got a passat. Pretty sure we get the euro spec tho. Nice car. Very safe for my family.