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Originally Posted by WingZer0
I thought motorex was out of business, due to them lying about crash testing on the cars.
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Originally Posted by swarb
You're right. They are out of business. Any they don't have the rights anymore as they did not renew their import licence with the DOT. The cars were tested, modified, and they got approved(after modifications done), then they started importing and selling them before they were DOT approved with the modifications needed.
I'm trying to point out that another company has imported R34's and various skylines into America but after all the trouble with the law they went though, I doubt the DOT will let anything Skyline GTR in. Also take note that, that website has the two LHD models as 20% street/80% race or 100%race. So possibility they import the cars under their own name or as a race car. Kind of like Shelby or Saleen.
The Motorex r32/r33 were about 30-45k and the R34's were 60-80+. I'd rather have a R35....
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I did LOTS of research from the Motorex "scam" as I have a friend who owns a motorx r33 gtr spec-v in midnight purple.
Motorex only got DOT approval for the r33 gtr as that was the only one they crash tested. There are a very few amount of skyline legal in the U.S. as some are being imported under the 25 year import law, but still can't smog them in CA due to CA having no smog exempt law (except 1974 and below). Other places these skyline are legal due to no smog testing or some places have a law where theyre smog exempt after 25 years. (depends on where you live.)
Back to the r33. The r33 skyline was crash tested by Motorex and those skyline are LEGAL TO IMPORT IF THEY ARE MANUFACTURED BETWEEN 1/96 - 6/98.
http://www.nhtsa.gov/cars/rules/import/ but still depending on where you live you still need to test for smog/emissions.